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quinaraWow. This was a seriously good episode, people. Once I got to the end I basically turned around and watched it again. And wouldn't mind doing that again today.
Maybe I'll start with minor hang-up I had, which was that I thought the writing was a little laboured in places. Sierra kept having these big, important Lines to deliver which I found a little awkward (and it came into DeWitt's lines as well). I would have liked a bit more subtlety there.
Otherwise, this episode was amazing. So much so that I'm left pretty much speechless. I love the way that Sierra's story explored and underlined what makes the people in 'our' Dollhouse different (and yet the same) as the other Dollhouses, ie. how DeWitt is trying to make something respectable out of fundamentally broken system. I loved Topher (and BTW, Dollhouse, great structural move to deal with both a doll and a non-doll, because this was we got both insight and development to go forward with - yay! I know Vows was the same, but we need AA back...), mostly for the dynamic he has with DeWitt and Claire in her absence. And Boyd. He's clearly still reeling from the way that Claire, who was essentially an experiment in constructing a 'moral' person, hates him as he is. No one can be neutral when it comes to morality.
And we have to take that away from the Dollhouse as a whole - it's necessarily bad, it seems, because it's not doing good. Everyone's morally compromised, even the "amoral" person.
I cannot say how much I love that with Boyd "ex-cop" is clearly a euphemism for "cop-turned-hardcore-gangster-scary-man". Or something like that. It puts everything into perspective!
As for Echo, I actually really liked her in this episode, even though she's still set on doing things her way or the highway. Her comments as the self-actualised sex-worker (doing something you love and getting paid for it?) about subverting power were perfect - because of course the irony is that she doesn't have the power in that situation because her agency is an illusion (as some feminists will argue is true about all sex work), only that is trumped by the further irony that Echo is only still in the Dollhouse because she wants to be and because she has an agenda. She knows what goes on now. And OK, so in the show her agenda is tofight the apocalypse weather the storm, but it could just as easily be anything else. Say get a lot of cash like Madeline.
Though of course that doesn't mitigate the fact that for every Echo there's a Sierra being horrifically exploited. And, as we see through Rossum, the system is one that thrives on exploitation.
Gah, why are there no more episodes till December? Please can this get picked up for another season. I know it's an even more faint hope than last time, but there are so many more places to take this concept.
Maybe I'll start with minor hang-up I had, which was that I thought the writing was a little laboured in places. Sierra kept having these big, important Lines to deliver which I found a little awkward (and it came into DeWitt's lines as well). I would have liked a bit more subtlety there.
Otherwise, this episode was amazing. So much so that I'm left pretty much speechless. I love the way that Sierra's story explored and underlined what makes the people in 'our' Dollhouse different (and yet the same) as the other Dollhouses, ie. how DeWitt is trying to make something respectable out of fundamentally broken system. I loved Topher (and BTW, Dollhouse, great structural move to deal with both a doll and a non-doll, because this was we got both insight and development to go forward with - yay! I know Vows was the same, but we need AA back...), mostly for the dynamic he has with DeWitt and Claire in her absence. And Boyd. He's clearly still reeling from the way that Claire, who was essentially an experiment in constructing a 'moral' person, hates him as he is. No one can be neutral when it comes to morality.
And we have to take that away from the Dollhouse as a whole - it's necessarily bad, it seems, because it's not doing good. Everyone's morally compromised, even the "amoral" person.
I cannot say how much I love that with Boyd "ex-cop" is clearly a euphemism for "cop-turned-hardcore-gangster-scary-man". Or something like that. It puts everything into perspective!
As for Echo, I actually really liked her in this episode, even though she's still set on doing things her way or the highway. Her comments as the self-actualised sex-worker (doing something you love and getting paid for it?) about subverting power were perfect - because of course the irony is that she doesn't have the power in that situation because her agency is an illusion (as some feminists will argue is true about all sex work), only that is trumped by the further irony that Echo is only still in the Dollhouse because she wants to be and because she has an agenda. She knows what goes on now. And OK, so in the show her agenda is to
Though of course that doesn't mitigate the fact that for every Echo there's a Sierra being horrifically exploited. And, as we see through Rossum, the system is one that thrives on exploitation.
Gah, why are there no more episodes till December? Please can this get picked up for another season. I know it's an even more faint hope than last time, but there are so many more places to take this concept.