Dollhouse Episode 12

[animeshon]

I'm not sure how I feel about this episode. Some parts of it were awesome, and others kind of annoyed me.

I loved Echo's composite event and how she didn't go crazy like Alpha. He was crazy to begin with, but Echo/Caroline wasn't. I think Ballard was correct in his summation that their souls really were there. The conversation between Echo and Caroline was interesting too, I think Caroline struck me as a person who made her bed. She knew what she was getting into, she had no illusions and she was prepared to return to it because she signed a contract.

I loved the Sierra imprint and how she was hitting on Agent Ballard, especially his reaction to it, and how he freaked out when November came into the room. And Topher with his crazy "Why is there a tall judgemental man in here who's not you" to Boyd was so cute. I loved Whiskey/Dr Saunders question to him at the end "Why did you have to make me hate you" It opens a very interesting quandry. Why did he make Whiskey into Dr Saunders the way he did? And what will they do with Victor now?

Joss Whedon apparently had a five year plan for this, but it looks as though this is all it's getting, so will he resort to comics to tell the story? I'd like to see things through to the end, but with comics it's easy to drag things on well past the time when they should end.

I'm curious to see how Ballard works for the Dollhouse. Is he meant to be another Boyd. Doesn't really approve of what the Dollhouse does but would prefer to fight from within the system. To be there at least to mitigate what they do?

Gah I'm just left with so many questions now!

Comments

[raynedanser]

I loved Whiskey/Dr Saunders question to him at the end "Why did you have to make me hate you"

My own personal take on that is that Topher did it as a way to punish himself. He feels that he deserves Dr Saunders' hate because he feels guilty about what happened. Between that and the scars that Dr. Saunders has, it will be a never ending, always in his face reminder of what happened when Alpha went postal because of a very much botched imprint.

[animeshon]

Yeah that totally makes sense. And again it's a little hint that Topher has a heart, which is nice

[raynedanser]

Every once in a while, you see a sign of reluctance or... something I can't quite put my finger on. Almost like he's there doing it, but grudgingly sometimes. If that makes sense.

[animeshon]

Yeah. Most of the time he's all excited geek boy, and then every now and then you get a glimpse that perhaps even he has some qualms about some things

[bientot]

I like to think Paul Ballard will be the new Victor - since Victor is on longer going to be assignable, he'll either go to the Attic (which would be SUCH a waste) or he'll become someone on staff, and they'll need another Active to be Victor. And boy, howdy, will he have overtones...

I still want to know why he (and Alpha, for that matter) obsess about Caroline/Echo... other than the obvious hotness of Eliza Dushku, of course....

[animeshon]

I hope that they don't turn Ballard into the new Victor. I'd like to see him as another Boyd. Slightly disapproving but wanting to help the Dolls. Maybe even Echo's new handler, although they could probably program Victor to do that.

It would be nice to know if there was a reason why they obsess about her, but I think it's probably just that she fit the type of victim Alpha liked, and for Paul it was the video. She was the first real victim of the Dollhouse so he fixated on saving her as being part of bringing down the Dollhouse