Dollhouse: Omega - Echo meets Capt. Kirk and Mr. Spock. Post comments here.
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I think Dominic's concerns about Echo becoming Alpha were that the retention of her memories from engagements might eventually drive her to become violent, as Alpha did. The actual mechanism by which Alpha retained memories despite the wipe, the likelyhood that some of those memories might be violent ones, and that the people of the Dollhouse don't understand the process makes it something unpredictable and scary for the staff.
It didn't help any that they didn't see the connection between Alpha's past as a crazy slasher maniac and when he slashes Whiskey, being as they were unable to imagine that a doll could retain aspects of their old personality, so they could only assume it was the memories of his engagements that made him act that way.
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Right, and the one there who had the highest understanding of the tech (Topher) was the one who was least worried about Echo. He knew full well that what happened with Alpha was a one-time thing, which started with Alpha's unhealthy fixation on Whiskey (before he got near the Chair). Echo didn't have that kind of attachment.
If anything, Topher would've been more scared of the Victor/Sierra shipping (which casts his reactions a few eps ago [to Victor's man-reaction] in a slightly less-hilarious light).
The fact that Dominic was scared of Echo just means that he was a moron.
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We applied the cortical electrodes but were unable to get a neural reaction from either patient.
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Originally posted by sab39:
Agreed about the composite event but I completely disagree that Echo not being unique/special is a letdown. It's actually one of the things I like a lot about Dollhouse as compared to some of Joss's prior shows.
Joss is known for his strong female characters but an alarming (to me) proportion of his female characters end up with what amount to superpowers of some sort (even in Firefly where just about all of them have an extraordinary talent that "just comes naturally" to them).
One thing I like about Echo and Ballard and Alpha is that neither the heroine nor the hero nor the villain really have superpowers or extraordinary talents. They're just ordinary people who are thrown into an extraordinary situation and do extraordinary things as a result.
She doesn't need to have a super power or anything but her thought process being special or unique is not that out of the ordinary. I mean all Alpha was obsessed with was her looks apparently. That's pretty boring IMO. It goes back to the composite event being lame because it wasn't something special in Alpha's brain that was also in Echo's it was just a process they could perform on any Doll.
Both were such a let down to me.
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Originally posted by Schism:
As much as I loved the ep, I'm still wondering why Alpha;
a) Ran away when he had the upper hand
b) Ran UP a building to escape
c) Threw away his main bargaining chip
d) Wasn't pursued by the others.
Oh, and am I grasping at FF references by pointing out Topher's "put them on the shelf beside our glass jars with fireflies" reference?
I know this is old now, but I have to agree with everything you've pointed out. It really made no sense... Also where exactly did Alpha go? Can he fly now too? Since when was climbing up a building the way out?
Overall this was not a good episode.
Roll on the new season though. :D
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