Dollhouse "Grey Hour"
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janetlinCooler and cooler! I hulu'd last week so I hadn't seen the previews for tonight's episode, so I was completely shocked by the twist, like, three minutes in. Alan says that's classic Joss.
More screentime this week between Paul and Lubov, yay!
Oh, also yay was the first scene. No dodgy sexual situation, no leet combat skills. Thank you guys for showing another side to Dolls and their engagements.
I loved Sierra taking over the persona after Echo was wiped, even if her doing so _did_ turn out to be rather useless. Both just for the sake of knowing that it can be done and also because of how well they did it. Sierra!Taffy moved the same way and everything. Very cool. And wow, Miss DeWitt does flustered! Also she has a boss. Interesting. So is there only one Dollhouse or is "ours" just one of several all over the country?
Going back to Paul and Lubov/Victor, I wonder to what extent - if any - he knows that he's playing Paul? Like does he _really_ think the Borodins are going to find him, or was that all just for Paul's benefit somehow? I'm not exactly sure why they would run it that way, but hey, I've only seen four episodes so far, and the Dollhouse's reasons could be, and probably are, many and varied. So *shrug*.
Oh, and the line about wearing comfy shoes? Doesn't work so well when delivered by a woman in stilettos. Yeah. We believe you, honey.
I loved the bits in the vault after Echo was wiped. The tech guy telling her about art and her reactions to it. We'd been _told_ all this time that inactive Dolls are blank slates, and I guess we do kind of see it every time Echo is wiped, but for some reason this time really made it sink in for me how childlike Echo is. Though... stabbing the guy with the syringe? I'm not entirely sure how to read that. Maybe it still was childlike, in that she didn't really understand what it was, and saw it only as a stabby hurty thing to use against the mean guy yelling at her. Or maybe this is another instance of Echo's deeper... whatever it is, coming to the surface, bleeding through the void, however that's possible. Some survival instinct kicking in from the far recesses of her brain where Topher couldn't scour it from.
Oh, about "blank slate." In the very first episode, Caroline comments to DeWitt that slates don't actually come clean, that whatever was there before still remains. Now, in that context it seemed like she was talking of herself, Caroline, and her past not being cleaned as nice and tidy as DeWitt was trying to tell her, but it's also relevant to the Dolls themselves, with this "compositing" and "grouping" that apparently is not supposed to happen but does.
Now Echo and Sierra bonding I can see - Echo walking in on Sierra's initial... whatever they call it, was pretty traumatic and therefore memorable for both of them. And they keep doubling up on assignments, so that bond is continually reinforced (along the same lines as DO NOT POKE THE DOLLS, you'd think they would avoid repeatedly putting the same Dolls together, just in case. But whatever). But how does Victor fit into their group? As far as we know from the episodes, neither of the girls has ever had meaningful contact with him. Not that I'm complaining. I'm delighted to see him getting more and more screentime. Him and sierra both, actually. I think they each had more lines in this episode than they have in any of the previous three. Maybe even all put together.
EDIT to add: Okay, I figure with all this Alpha-talk that he's going to be the end boss if you will only for this first season, maybe the second. Definitely not the entire series. They _could_ drag out the suspense for years, but not if they're mentioning him almost every single week. Which is good, I think. I look forward to the confrontation and learning more about him and what made him snap the way he did.
So all told, I'm starting to get well and truly bouncy about this show. :D
More screentime this week between Paul and Lubov, yay!
Oh, also yay was the first scene. No dodgy sexual situation, no leet combat skills. Thank you guys for showing another side to Dolls and their engagements.
I loved Sierra taking over the persona after Echo was wiped, even if her doing so _did_ turn out to be rather useless. Both just for the sake of knowing that it can be done and also because of how well they did it. Sierra!Taffy moved the same way and everything. Very cool. And wow, Miss DeWitt does flustered! Also she has a boss. Interesting. So is there only one Dollhouse or is "ours" just one of several all over the country?
Going back to Paul and Lubov/Victor, I wonder to what extent - if any - he knows that he's playing Paul? Like does he _really_ think the Borodins are going to find him, or was that all just for Paul's benefit somehow? I'm not exactly sure why they would run it that way, but hey, I've only seen four episodes so far, and the Dollhouse's reasons could be, and probably are, many and varied. So *shrug*.
Oh, and the line about wearing comfy shoes? Doesn't work so well when delivered by a woman in stilettos. Yeah. We believe you, honey.
I loved the bits in the vault after Echo was wiped. The tech guy telling her about art and her reactions to it. We'd been _told_ all this time that inactive Dolls are blank slates, and I guess we do kind of see it every time Echo is wiped, but for some reason this time really made it sink in for me how childlike Echo is. Though... stabbing the guy with the syringe? I'm not entirely sure how to read that. Maybe it still was childlike, in that she didn't really understand what it was, and saw it only as a stabby hurty thing to use against the mean guy yelling at her. Or maybe this is another instance of Echo's deeper... whatever it is, coming to the surface, bleeding through the void, however that's possible. Some survival instinct kicking in from the far recesses of her brain where Topher couldn't scour it from.
Oh, about "blank slate." In the very first episode, Caroline comments to DeWitt that slates don't actually come clean, that whatever was there before still remains. Now, in that context it seemed like she was talking of herself, Caroline, and her past not being cleaned as nice and tidy as DeWitt was trying to tell her, but it's also relevant to the Dolls themselves, with this "compositing" and "grouping" that apparently is not supposed to happen but does.
Now Echo and Sierra bonding I can see - Echo walking in on Sierra's initial... whatever they call it, was pretty traumatic and therefore memorable for both of them. And they keep doubling up on assignments, so that bond is continually reinforced (along the same lines as DO NOT POKE THE DOLLS, you'd think they would avoid repeatedly putting the same Dolls together, just in case. But whatever). But how does Victor fit into their group? As far as we know from the episodes, neither of the girls has ever had meaningful contact with him. Not that I'm complaining. I'm delighted to see him getting more and more screentime. Him and sierra both, actually. I think they each had more lines in this episode than they have in any of the previous three. Maybe even all put together.
EDIT to add: Okay, I figure with all this Alpha-talk that he's going to be the end boss if you will only for this first season, maybe the second. Definitely not the entire series. They _could_ drag out the suspense for years, but not if they're mentioning him almost every single week. Which is good, I think. I look forward to the confrontation and learning more about him and what made him snap the way he did.
So all told, I'm starting to get well and truly bouncy about this show. :D
