Dollhouse 2.3: Belle Chose

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Man, a real overload of squick and ick this ep. Bleah.

If I wasn't quite thoroughly sold on Enver, I am after this episode.

Boyd: "Topher has ethical problems. Topher." Hee. Some good lines, as usual.

And finally, a (vaguely spoilery) plea to the flist: I missed the last two minutes of the ep due to technical difficulties, and my usual rewatch method is unavailable. So, what happened? I lost it right about the time Kiki's telling the other girls to kill her, and then she gets the headaches/personality warps/whatever.

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Basically, the "mom" lady is all too happy to take Echo up on her offer, but the Dollhouse SWAT team (or whatever they are) tracks Echo's GPS and shows up just in time to stop anyone from getting dead. Ballard takes Echo in for a treatment, but after she's wiped she says, "Goodness gracious," indicating that she's still got the serial killer persona in her head somewhere.

Also, I'm pretty sure Ballard pulled the plug on the comatose serial killer, because Adelle was going to (reluctantly) send him back to the hospital.

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Aha. Thank you for recap! Sounds like a typical caper-of-the-week episode ender.

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Man, a real overload of squick and ick this ep. Oh, absolutely. Did you like it, though? It was better written than a lot of episodes of the show so far, but I had one major quibble: sometimes I felt like they were hitting me over the head with a croquet mallet to drive the PARALLELS BETWEEN TERRY'S VICTIMS AND THE DOLLS into my head. Subtlety is appreciated, please.

On the other hand, hilarity. And ENVER. I'm so glad you're loving him so much! He really is my favorite actor on the show, and the main reason I don't want it to be canceled--besides the fact that I want answers to various questions--is to see what he'll do next. I want him to be cast in everything ever.

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PARALLELS BETWEEN TERRY'S VICTIMS AND THE DOLLS

Er. Either I completely failed to pick up on this at all, or my brain dismissed the connection as so completely obvious and trivial as to not inform me of it in the first place. (Seriously, my brain does this. It's one reason I wouldn't have made a good English major - I look at a list of all the important allusions and thematic connections in a work, and I say, "Well, yeah." Despite having never actually made those connections myself, it feels like I have.)

I want him to be cast in everything ever.

But hey, lacking that, his role on Dollhouse is the next best thing. *g* Seriously, getting to play an Active would be a plum acting gig for anyone who, like, could actually act. *carefully doesn't mention Eliza Dushku*

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What Eowyn said, except that it's unclear if Ballard pulled the plug. I just rewatched, and I think the readout screens are saying everything is a-okay. But Echo is standing there looking at him, and she's was the one saying, "You've got to kill him." Gah!

So the argument in our house right now is, who made the better Kiki: Enver or Eliza?

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It definitely looked and sounded like he flatlined to me - plus, Echo's line about "I think he dreams" and Ballard's response "Not anymore" made me think Ballard meant "...because he's dead."

So the argument in our house right now is, who made the better Kiki: Enver or Eliza?

Enver. Hands down.

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Hmm, thanks for the thoughts!

As for Kiki, I enjoyed watching Enver be Kiki more, but I suspect part of the that was the sharp, intentional contrast between expectations for the physical gender and the, how to say it, mental gender. Dushku might have done exactly as good a job, but she wasn't playing against expectations, and so I think her role was fundamentally less interesting.

Which is to say, I can't really compare them. :)

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I think Eliza did - but Enver's was more fun...