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heathershaped) wrote2009-10-24 10:07 am
heathershaped) wrote2009-10-24 10:07 am
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Dollhouse 2x04
Gah, this episode. I don't even know.
Spoilers under the cut. Also, one day I'll manage to write episode reviews that are coherent. I'm not sure today is that day. :P
PRIYA CAN THIS SHOW JUST BE ABOUT YOU. OH SWEETIE. In some ways, this is easily my favorite episode because it's about her and she's always been my favorite and Dichen Lachman can act circles around everyone else. I'm crazy about Sierra/Priya/whoever she is each week. Plus, there was no Paul.
But this this episode was also painful and wrong, wrong, wrong. :/
I get that the moral greyness is the point of everything ever on this show, but this took it to EXTREMES. I officially want someone to blow up the Dollhouse, I don't care who. Boyd, Echo, Senator Wesley. Literally, blow it up. It is so fucked up I can't even deal.
I do like that Topher's developing Issues with what he's doing. I also like that Boyd's cynical about it, like oh, NOW it's a problem. This bit:
Topher: "That's funny, that I have a hunch?"
Boyd: "It's funny that it's bothering you." LMAO. I love love love Boyd. I wonder if Joss will care enough to show us why HE'S doing this. He's a cypher at the moment. And he knows how to dispose of bodies and disappear people. Please tell me there's a backstory episode coming up for him.
Victor is so, so sweet. And Echo's always been mother hen about Sierra. It's probably wrong to feel so OT3 about them considering their current mental states. Sigh. When the Dollhouse blows up I want them to be together. :P
How are Victor and Sierra now allowed to sleep together?
I liked Echo in this episode. I really like her more when the episodes aren't all about her and her imprints. I'm now far more interested in her growing awareness of things and I love that Boyd's helping her now. I've missed their interactions.
Adelle. Damn, girl. Though, her moral lines remain weird; she's all "you have made me an accomplice to something vile".
UM. Do you mean something else that's vile? Alrighty then. Strange sort of cognitive dissonance going on here. Human trafficking, prostitution, mind-wipes, all fine, BUT KIDNAPPING AND RAPE ARE VILE. And really, Topher? Priya suddenly doesn't belong in the dollhouse because she was drugged? Okay, I'm with you, but you do realise that she never signed a contract in the first place, right? I like how when she seemed to be paranoid schizophrenic with no family and no ability to choose, it was okay to take her and do whatever you wanted with her and erase her entire personality. That was 'curing' her. But now that you know she wasn't in fact mentally ill, IT WAS TOTALLY WRONG TO DO THAT.
LOOOL OKAY.
I enjoyed Adelle's scenes with both Topher and Lundy-from-Dexter. Both really chilling in their own way. But I'm losing sight of the point. Basically, "we all suck as human beings, deal with it"? Yeah, I get that, great. Can someone please blow up the Dollhouse now? Because this is starting to feel less edgy and more self-indulgent.
And why did Priya go back? Why... why would she want to go back? She kills the guy who terrorized her and sent her into slavery and who was hitting her and actively attempting to rape her, but she still has no choices and no power and can think of nothing except to go back to the dollhouse? She gets a major assist from Topher and takes her life back from Nolan, then she gives it away again. That just undermines everything, any sense of personal power or self-worth that she might have gained. I'm deeply sad for her.
Also, now she's the black spot on the painting? (I see what you did there.) Why is she the black spot for killing Nolan? That was the least morally grey thing that happened in the entire episode, as far as I'm concerned.
I'm just ... I can't parse my feelings on this episode. Halp.
Spoilers under the cut. Also, one day I'll manage to write episode reviews that are coherent. I'm not sure today is that day. :P
PRIYA CAN THIS SHOW JUST BE ABOUT YOU. OH SWEETIE. In some ways, this is easily my favorite episode because it's about her and she's always been my favorite and Dichen Lachman can act circles around everyone else. I'm crazy about Sierra/Priya/whoever she is each week. Plus, there was no Paul.
But this this episode was also painful and wrong, wrong, wrong. :/
I get that the moral greyness is the point of everything ever on this show, but this took it to EXTREMES. I officially want someone to blow up the Dollhouse, I don't care who. Boyd, Echo, Senator Wesley. Literally, blow it up. It is so fucked up I can't even deal.
I do like that Topher's developing Issues with what he's doing. I also like that Boyd's cynical about it, like oh, NOW it's a problem. This bit:
Topher: "That's funny, that I have a hunch?"
Boyd: "It's funny that it's bothering you." LMAO. I love love love Boyd. I wonder if Joss will care enough to show us why HE'S doing this. He's a cypher at the moment. And he knows how to dispose of bodies and disappear people. Please tell me there's a backstory episode coming up for him.
Victor is so, so sweet. And Echo's always been mother hen about Sierra. It's probably wrong to feel so OT3 about them considering their current mental states. Sigh. When the Dollhouse blows up I want them to be together. :P
How are Victor and Sierra now allowed to sleep together?
I liked Echo in this episode. I really like her more when the episodes aren't all about her and her imprints. I'm now far more interested in her growing awareness of things and I love that Boyd's helping her now. I've missed their interactions.
Adelle. Damn, girl. Though, her moral lines remain weird; she's all "you have made me an accomplice to something vile".
UM. Do you mean something else that's vile? Alrighty then. Strange sort of cognitive dissonance going on here. Human trafficking, prostitution, mind-wipes, all fine, BUT KIDNAPPING AND RAPE ARE VILE. And really, Topher? Priya suddenly doesn't belong in the dollhouse because she was drugged? Okay, I'm with you, but you do realise that she never signed a contract in the first place, right? I like how when she seemed to be paranoid schizophrenic with no family and no ability to choose, it was okay to take her and do whatever you wanted with her and erase her entire personality. That was 'curing' her. But now that you know she wasn't in fact mentally ill, IT WAS TOTALLY WRONG TO DO THAT.
LOOOL OKAY.
I enjoyed Adelle's scenes with both Topher and Lundy-from-Dexter. Both really chilling in their own way. But I'm losing sight of the point. Basically, "we all suck as human beings, deal with it"? Yeah, I get that, great. Can someone please blow up the Dollhouse now? Because this is starting to feel less edgy and more self-indulgent.
And why did Priya go back? Why... why would she want to go back? She kills the guy who terrorized her and sent her into slavery and who was hitting her and actively attempting to rape her, but she still has no choices and no power and can think of nothing except to go back to the dollhouse? She gets a major assist from Topher and takes her life back from Nolan, then she gives it away again. That just undermines everything, any sense of personal power or self-worth that she might have gained. I'm deeply sad for her.
Also, now she's the black spot on the painting? (I see what you did there.) Why is she the black spot for killing Nolan? That was the least morally grey thing that happened in the entire episode, as far as I'm concerned.
I'm just ... I can't parse my feelings on this episode. Halp.