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I got the first season of Dollhouse at a Goodwill :) I haven’t finished it yet, but here’s my jumbled verdict so far:
-WHAT HAPPENED TO THE LORE FROM THE FIRST EPISODE. Like, Echo remembers things that happened to someone else, which kind of led me to believe this would be like an iZombie thing where the actives’ personalities or whatever were all based on actual people, and Topher says something kind of to this effect, but then it never seems to come back up again? And also while we’re on the subject, how was the person she played in the first episode even available for Topher to draw off of anyway? Did that woman volunteer to have her brain scanned? Did they do it after she died? Is this how they get all of their personalities and talents and such? Some type of job fair where they say ‘hey, are you an accomplished thief? Then please, come over here and let us scan your brain so we can make our own thief!’ I have many questions and I can only assume they’re going to be answered, right guys? Please?
-I do not care about Paul. I cared briefly in the beginning, and now I do not. I keep forgetting about him and then he keeps showing back up. Maybe he can win me over again. We’ll see.
-On a more positive note, I love Adelle!! I keep mentally comparing this show to Alias because that’s what my brain always defaults to, and at first I thought oh hey she’s kind of like Irina but honestly she feels more like Ariana to me now. Women who look competent enough when she’s playing a game of chess that you don’t notice she’s actually making terrible decisions left and right my beloveds <33
-I’m constantly torn between ‘the Dollhouse is intentionally terrible, they are showing how awful it would be to have no control over your life’ and ‘please god let these poor people have a break’. Like I KNOW the whole point is that the Dollhouse is wrong but also can we please stop making their lives miserable for thirty seconds!! You made me care about these people and then insisted on making things worse at every possible turn! Which hey, definitely makes me want to see if they ever escape, so well played at least in that regard, I suppose.
-Echoes episode of all time what can’t she do. We learn more about Rossum and Caroline’s old life, we get to see a bunch of actives in fun situations where they get to be the ones in control of things (for the most part, at least) rather than their handlers, and also Dominic finally saying wow maybe I shouldn’t have tried to burn you alive. Just maybe. I am also firmly devoted to the task of hating Topher because they keep trying to make him out as the quirky little tech guy, a title I protest to being given to him greatly, but honestly the whole conversation between him and Adelle wore me down to him a little bit. Only a little. They have a really funny dynamic though, so I hope we get to see more of that, at least.
I have more thoughts but I am sleepy and afraid this might not be very coherent already! So I shall leave it here for now
-WHAT HAPPENED TO THE LORE FROM THE FIRST EPISODE. Like, Echo remembers things that happened to someone else, which kind of led me to believe this would be like an iZombie thing where the actives’ personalities or whatever were all based on actual people, and Topher says something kind of to this effect, but then it never seems to come back up again? And also while we’re on the subject, how was the person she played in the first episode even available for Topher to draw off of anyway? Did that woman volunteer to have her brain scanned? Did they do it after she died? Is this how they get all of their personalities and talents and such? Some type of job fair where they say ‘hey, are you an accomplished thief? Then please, come over here and let us scan your brain so we can make our own thief!’ I have many questions and I can only assume they’re going to be answered, right guys? Please?
-I do not care about Paul. I cared briefly in the beginning, and now I do not. I keep forgetting about him and then he keeps showing back up. Maybe he can win me over again. We’ll see.
-On a more positive note, I love Adelle!! I keep mentally comparing this show to Alias because that’s what my brain always defaults to, and at first I thought oh hey she’s kind of like Irina but honestly she feels more like Ariana to me now. Women who look competent enough when she’s playing a game of chess that you don’t notice she’s actually making terrible decisions left and right my beloveds <33
-I’m constantly torn between ‘the Dollhouse is intentionally terrible, they are showing how awful it would be to have no control over your life’ and ‘please god let these poor people have a break’. Like I KNOW the whole point is that the Dollhouse is wrong but also can we please stop making their lives miserable for thirty seconds!! You made me care about these people and then insisted on making things worse at every possible turn! Which hey, definitely makes me want to see if they ever escape, so well played at least in that regard, I suppose.
-Echoes episode of all time what can’t she do. We learn more about Rossum and Caroline’s old life, we get to see a bunch of actives in fun situations where they get to be the ones in control of things (for the most part, at least) rather than their handlers, and also Dominic finally saying wow maybe I shouldn’t have tried to burn you alive. Just maybe. I am also firmly devoted to the task of hating Topher because they keep trying to make him out as the quirky little tech guy, a title I protest to being given to him greatly, but honestly the whole conversation between him and Adelle wore me down to him a little bit. Only a little. They have a really funny dynamic though, so I hope we get to see more of that, at least.
I have more thoughts but I am sleepy and afraid this might not be very coherent already! So I shall leave it here for now
