Holy fucking shit. They're on a roll...



I already know I need to rewatch this. Hell, I'll be doing a lot of rewatching of episodes between now and December 4th, and have a lot of thinky thoughts to post that are more coherent than what I've been doing lately.

It was weird seeing Keith Carradine on the show, considering what happened to his character last week on Dexter...

Goes without saying, Dichen Lachman rocked this episode. Priya was cute, can't blame creepy guy for being into her. 'Course, kidnapping, brainwashing, and raping...not so much. Interesting, Priya wants to forget, just like Madeleine, unlike Echo. And I'm a full-on sucker for the Sierra/Victor romance, I have to say.

I'm REALLY interested in learning Boyd's backstory. Totally didn't expect him to go all...Dexter on the corpse. Even though he made Topher do the dismembering.

Which, HOLY FUCKING SHIT. I feel SO BAD for Topher. Just...WTF. This is why I love a Joss Whedon show--I never know what the hell is going to happen next. Also: Topher's talking to himself like Alpha made me lol, and then made me wonder if he's already starting to go insane. Combined with the rest of the events, I wouldn't blame him.

DeWitt continues to be completely fascinating. I'm not as surprised as some others she was quick to call what Nolan did "rape"--and then when Harding throws the Miss Lonely Hearts thing at her, she calls it an "indiscretion." I go back and forth whether the actives having sex while imprinted is inherently rape, but the two cases were pretty different. Plus, it put on display DeWitt's moral compass; it may not line up with others', but she has one and sticks to it. I love her in Epitaph One, where she's still taking care of the actives and protecting the Dollhouse, and STILL believing what she did was right, despite what's happened to the world. I LOVE that she believes in the Dollhouse's (phony) "mission." Even if it is--no, because it is, as Dominic said, naive.

...ahem.

The DeWitt and Topher relationship is becoming the one I'm most fascinated in. "You, Topher, were chosen because you have no morals." She says some pretty terrible things, but still in her motherly way she behaves towards him. I need to see where this is going. (...damnit, I think I ship it a little, too.)

Oh! I knew there wasn't going to be much Echo tonight, so I was pleasantly surprised she had a subplot developing her self-awareness. She reads, she lies, she writes notes to herself in her pod...I don't get why people hate her so much. Saw a comment on Twitter complaining her subplot was "too much," WHAT?

So, here's hoping the great word-of-mouth doesn't get killed off by Fox's publicity fuck-ups and a month-long break...I'm going to make some more posters, because it makes me feel like I'm doing something ~productive~. (Plus, lots of good tag lines to take from this episode.)

EDIT: Reading this review comparing the themes in Dollhouse to Mad Men...Harding's order to imprint Sierra permanently and send her to creepy guy because he's an important client made me think of what happened to Sal on Mad Men.