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Dollhouse: "A Spy In the House of Love" (1x09)
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Wow. That was a whole lot of left turns.
Loved it. Excellent. Maybe the first Excellent (insert memory joke).
Loved it. Excellent. Maybe the first Excellent (insert memory joke).
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I felt this episode actually climbed up some this time. This time I decided to go with "Above average". It's too close to "Excellent", but keeping with the current rating system, that left me no choice.
As usual, Topher really sucks as acting. Every scene is almost painful to watch when it opens his mouth.
The surprise plotline with Miss DeWitt being a secret Doll user wasinteresting and showed a new side of her.
I am also surprised at how fast they have moved up certain events, like revealing November and a leak inside the Dollhouse. I would have thought any leaks would be saved for maybe a third season surprise.
Next week's episode looks liek a emotional phycoligically thriller, but I am forced to wonder that with only three episodes left after that, why they are wasting time on such a thing. If FOX hadn't fucked with the show like they did and Whedon had actualyl fleshed things out better and not rushed it, an episode like next weeks' would have been one of the early ones.
I felt this episode actually climbed up some this time. This time I decided to go with "Above average". It's too close to "Excellent", but keeping with the current rating system, that left me no choice.
As usual, Topher really sucks as acting. Every scene is almost painful to watch when it opens his mouth.
The surprise plotline with Miss DeWitt being a secret Doll user wasinteresting and showed a new side of her.
I am also surprised at how fast they have moved up certain events, like revealing November and a leak inside the Dollhouse. I would have thought any leaks would be saved for maybe a third season surprise.
Next week's episode looks liek a emotional phycoligically thriller, but I am forced to wonder that with only three episodes left after that, why they are wasting time on such a thing. If FOX hadn't fucked with the show like they did and Whedon had actualyl fleshed things out better and not rushed it, an episode like next weeks' would have been one of the early ones.
DeWitt became an even more frightening and intriguing character in this one - she goes from emotionally vulnerable and lonely to monstrous to being the kind of old gunfighter who sits there chatting while "doc" digs out the bullet. 
^^ Maybe too stoic, I was like "what the hell?" and kept waiting for some weird reveal before I realized she was just hella tough or something.
I thought it was pretty good tonight. I'm hoping this show gets a season 2 to sink/swim. If it doesn't really take off by then, it probably doesn't deserve to. But not yet. I keep remembering how season one of Buffy was compared to later years. I know, Angel and Firefly weren't bad to begin with, but Angel was a spinoff and I think Firefly was special.
Wow, excellent... best episode so far, just edging out "Man on the Street". MUCH better than last weeks yawner.
But it really does put into focus that the Dollhouse is evil... Perhaps not the most evil organization out there, but certainly not good. Consider that they just wiped their head of security, who was in the grand scheme perhaps a good guy.
Gotta love Boyd's line about being "philantropic pimps and murderers" (?)
Ellie's reveal to Helo was nice scene... I had expected that to come sooner or later.
My favorite scene was probably at the end though, with Echo and the head of security in the van... Lots of foreshadowing there. Only time will tell if we actually get to see that foreshadowing come true.
But it really does put into focus that the Dollhouse is evil... Perhaps not the most evil organization out there, but certainly not good. Consider that they just wiped their head of security, who was in the grand scheme perhaps a good guy.
Gotta love Boyd's line about being "philantropic pimps and murderers" (?)
Ellie's reveal to Helo was nice scene... I had expected that to come sooner or later.
My favorite scene was probably at the end though, with Echo and the head of security in the van... Lots of foreshadowing there. Only time will tell if we actually get to see that foreshadowing come true.
This week was watchable, as opposed to the usual unwatchable.
But the DeWitt/Victor thing was stretched out for too long.
The black dude is still the only guy I like, and even then only because he seems like a nice guy, not because his character is particularly interesting.
But the DeWitt/Victor thing was stretched out for too long.
The black dude is still the only guy I like, and even then only because he seems like a nice guy, not because his character is particularly interesting.
In this case the reveal actually came first, as I saw it. When she goes to Victor and breaks down crying--she's wearing her work clothes, the ones she wore when she and Echo 'interviewed' Dominic. She did the cold-hearted boss thing, then shattered when she was 'safe' with Victor. After all, there had been more than a few hints that DeWitt and Dominic were attracted to each other; this was a betrayal more than just at the professional level.
My favourite moment was when Victor's Bond-like imprint says, offhand, that if he were a client he would order somebody just like DeWitt, because she was perfect. The "Oh, fuck, what if I'm..." look that crossed her face for a moment... loved it. I've said it before: beneath all the pretty decor is an identity nightmare out of a Phillip K. Dick story.
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DeWitt became an even more frightening and intriguing character in this one - she goes from emotionally vulnerable and lonely to monstrous to being the kind of old gunfighter who sits there chatting while "doc" digs out the bullet.
When she started crying I thought she a miscarriage
Everyone's messed up in this show
I was surprised that the Dollhouse revealed Millie's "sleeper" status to Ballard. When that sequence of events unfolded, my jaw dropped.
I was expecting that Ballard would, eventually, figure out on his own that Millie was a sleeper Doll. The signs were there when he first pulls his gun on her; she seemed to have no awareness of why he would be jumpy as he was, which made me wonder if they programmed her with memories of the attack in Ballard's apartment.
So was it the NSA, through Dominic, that was feeding Ballard the messages? That they didn't just want Ballard to uncover the mystery of the Dollhouse and rescue Caroline, but that they wanted him to take it down thoroughly, so they're feeding him enough information that he'll dig deeper than he ordinarily would have? If so, Dominic's statement to DeWitt that he kept Ballard's investigation away from the Dollhouse was probably to divert attention from Ballard; he's taking a bullet, knowing that Ballard is going to dig a lot deeper and get to the core of the story. He has to sacrifice himself, for the sake of the greater good.
That's my guess, anyway.
I wonder why they didn't tranq Dominic when they put him into the chair, though. Why have someone conscious, in a state where he could do some major damage? That didn't make a lot of sense to me.
I was expecting that Ballard would, eventually, figure out on his own that Millie was a sleeper Doll. The signs were there when he first pulls his gun on her; she seemed to have no awareness of why he would be jumpy as he was, which made me wonder if they programmed her with memories of the attack in Ballard's apartment.
So was it the NSA, through Dominic, that was feeding Ballard the messages? That they didn't just want Ballard to uncover the mystery of the Dollhouse and rescue Caroline, but that they wanted him to take it down thoroughly, so they're feeding him enough information that he'll dig deeper than he ordinarily would have? If so, Dominic's statement to DeWitt that he kept Ballard's investigation away from the Dollhouse was probably to divert attention from Ballard; he's taking a bullet, knowing that Ballard is going to dig a lot deeper and get to the core of the story. He has to sacrifice himself, for the sake of the greater good.
That's my guess, anyway.
I wonder why they didn't tranq Dominic when they put him into the chair, though. Why have someone conscious, in a state where he could do some major damage? That didn't make a lot of sense to me.
I meant reveal that she's bulletproof or something, she didn't even stagger when she took that slug. It didn't go clean through either.
BTW, special mention should go to Eliza's outfit at the beginning.
Have they used "Is there an Echo in here?" as a title yet?
Have they used "Is there an Echo in here?" as a title yet?
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