Dollhouse 3/20/09

[Arnwyn]

A very enjoyable episode. My wife called the neighbor-chickie a doll a while back, so she was pleased to be correct. Very cool way they went about the reveal, though. Good stuff.

The whole 'inside-man' thing was very interesting, though done a little weirdly.

The fight scene was really good for TV. Really good - when Ballard was bounced off that car, it was pretty cool.

Very promising.

 

[Remus Lupin]

I like that Ballard is using a consistant fighting style. That fight was all Muay Thai from Ballard's perspective, and reflects the fighting he was doing in the ring in Ep 1.

 

[drothgery]

A very enjoyable episode. My wife called the neighbor-chickie a doll a while back, so she was pleased to be correct. Very cool way they went about the reveal, though. Good stuff.

Eh. I'm not sure I like the 'fake-out' style that Joss seems to use occasionally. He'll spend a few episodes dropping hints that X is Y, then show a scene that suggests X is not Y, and then later in the same episode, go back and confirm that X is Y.

 

[Grymar]

You guys saying that anyone could be a doll...I think this whole episode was about another level of "creating dolls." Ballard is using Mellie, making her into Caroline in his head. He is making her into a doll {Irony is that she is already one}. Then the Dollhouse boss uses the bad handler (who had himself been using the Sierra doll) and makes him into a killer, only to then have another doll kill him.

If Dolls are just about using people for your own needs, then everyone is guilty of creating dolls.

 

[John Crichton]

3) Who's the "inside man"? I'm betting on Amy Acker's character. Or is this a double bluff on the part of the dollhouse's puppet masters?

Looks like DeWitt right now to me. She has all the access to make it happen not to mention her personal recruiting of Echo and assignment of her to things like "discrediting" Ballard. She appears to have the savvy and manipulation skills to pull off that kind of scam.

That, my friend, is known as a "plot hole."

If so, it's a tiny one. If the message is never addressed again in the show it's very easy to assume it was wiped by the Dollhouse. They have the technology to wipe and program human brains. I'm fairly certain wiping or remotely manipulating a $30 answering machine is a piece of cake.

It could also be used as a plot point later on.