Dollhouse: "Omega" (1x12)
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I would certainly hope Fox noticed this little movie premiere their show was up against. Not expect, mind you, but hope.
But it was still in line with the downward trend, people can whine about fox all they like but the people who actually tuned in didn't like what they saw and that's what killed it.
Mixed bag.
It felt like they finally came around to having those who run the Dollhouse begin come to terms with the implications of what they're doing with people lives. The most interesting piece for me was Dr. Saunders/Whiskey pointing out to Topher that he gave her both the skills to look into his system to find out the truth, and programmed her to hate him. There is some guilt there, apparently. Over the past few weeks, the Dollhouse runners were becoming interestingly complex.
I felt, however, the Alpha story line, so promising in the lead in last week, fell a bit flat in the finale. Alpha was not near as interesting as he was built up to be, and in truth, despite the personality shifts, a bit generic in his "madness".
Not sure I'm buying into Ballard, a man driven to distraction seeking the Dollhouse, switches to aiding them this easily. One would hope there's a lot more there than meets the eye thus far.
Not sure what to rate this, so Average it is.
It felt like they finally came around to having those who run the Dollhouse begin come to terms with the implications of what they're doing with people lives. The most interesting piece for me was Dr. Saunders/Whiskey pointing out to Topher that he gave her both the skills to look into his system to find out the truth, and programmed her to hate him. There is some guilt there, apparently. Over the past few weeks, the Dollhouse runners were becoming interestingly complex.
I felt, however, the Alpha story line, so promising in the lead in last week, fell a bit flat in the finale. Alpha was not near as interesting as he was built up to be, and in truth, despite the personality shifts, a bit generic in his "madness".
Not sure I'm buying into Ballard, a man driven to distraction seeking the Dollhouse, switches to aiding them this easily. One would hope there's a lot more there than meets the eye thus far.
Not sure what to rate this, so Average it is.
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I wondered if that meant she was someone that he knew, in her previous life. Perhaps even someone he had been involved with or related to. He programmed her to hate him, because he hated himself for essentially destroying forever the person that she had once been.
I rated it Below Average, when comparring it to the whole series. If I were to compare it to other Whedon series, I would rate it Poor. If I compared it to other shows that are actually good, Below Poor would have to be created.
That's the thing. I like it, but if it were to be canceled, I think I would miss the potential of the show more than the show itself.
Ya know what I don't get about the ending?
Why exactly is Doctor Whiskey Paulson being such a drama queen about her and Victor's scars? Seriously? Why is anybody? They're scars in the face, not third degree burns all over their bodies.
I mean, has no one in that place ever heard the phrase cosmetic surgery? Do they not know what a good plastic surgeon can do about such disfigurements nowadays? It's like a treatment for both of them, then they're "at their best" again. Really, with what the place spends on maintaining their batcave, providing security and staff and vehicles and handlers, and feeding the dolls "five-star cuisine", and on and on, you're telling me there ain't enough money in the budget to keep the guys from "Nip/Tuck" on retainer? Or hell, couldn't you just download their skills into Go-to Doll Sierra?
ACTIVE: SIERRA - "Tell me what you don't like about yourself."
ACTIVE: WHISKEY - "That I got replaced as the hot-shit active by someone as vapid as you because California is too cheap to just incarcerate psychopaths like Alpha."
Why exactly is Doctor Whiskey Paulson being such a drama queen about her and Victor's scars? Seriously? Why is anybody? They're scars in the face, not third degree burns all over their bodies.
I mean, has no one in that place ever heard the phrase cosmetic surgery? Do they not know what a good plastic surgeon can do about such disfigurements nowadays? It's like a treatment for both of them, then they're "at their best" again. Really, with what the place spends on maintaining their batcave, providing security and staff and vehicles and handlers, and feeding the dolls "five-star cuisine", and on and on, you're telling me there ain't enough money in the budget to keep the guys from "Nip/Tuck" on retainer? Or hell, couldn't you just download their skills into Go-to Doll Sierra?
ACTIVE: SIERRA - "Tell me what you don't like about yourself."
ACTIVE: WHISKEY - "That I got replaced as the hot-shit active by someone as vapid as you because California is too cheap to just incarcerate psychopaths like Alpha."
I assume I'd be pissed.
Then I'd kill you, and expect the people using me as a programmable living whore to understand the value of finding somebody to fix what you've done.
I think if they cancel it, I'll just be relieved that they will have made the decision for me of whether to continue watching or not. 
Hmmm?
You know who it would be completely awesome to be behind the Dollhouse?
Badhorse.
It's a fucking horse for fucks sake!
How else are you going to get even a psychotically evil personality under that gorgeous mane?
You don't think DeWitt has the balls to hold a chair in the Evil League of Evil?
You know who it would be completely awesome to be behind the Dollhouse?
Badhorse.
It's a fucking horse for fucks sake!
How else are you going to get even a psychotically evil personality under that gorgeous mane?
You don't think DeWitt has the balls to hold a chair in the Evil League of Evil?
Plastic surgery isn't a cure-all. At best, it can reduce, not eliminate, the appearance of scars. And every surgical incision just produces more scars that have to be hidden. There is an upper limit to what surgery can accomplish.
i thought, perhaps, the girl he programmed Sierra to be on his birthday... that was something he and Whiskey originally did together.
Fair enough, but it just seems that nobody there even investigated the possibility. It's just, "Okay, Whiskey's deformed so she'll just be the doctor who never leaves", and she just transferred that to Victor. They have enough talent and surveillance equipment to penetrate the friggin NSA and at least one doll that they use like a swiss army knife and it's like this never occurred to anybody in the time since Alpha went nuts.
We don't know that for sure.
He's useless for ladies looking for younger guys, but he's still good for cop work, undercover work, assassinations, and other duties where facial disfigurement isn't an automatic bar.
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