Dollhouse: Needs - Echo and her Active pals have needs, skips Dollhouse. Post comments here.
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Echo was in the dollhouse, as a doll, when Alpha flipped out. So no.
She snuck into Rossum with the man she loved, who she'd convinced to help her, and he was killed. She felt responsible, and she was in trouble because she'd seen things she shouldn't have. She was told the consequences of her actions - all the consequences - would be erased. So, with little other choice, she signed.
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Originally posted by PhoenixRose:
Echo was in the dollhouse, as a doll, when Alpha flipped out. So no.
She snuck into Rossum with the man she loved, who she'd convinced to help her, and he was killed. She felt responsible, and she was in trouble because she'd seen things she shouldn't have. She was told the consequences of her actions - all the consequences - would be erased. So, with little other choice, she signed.
DeWitt said something about her and Caroline beating around the bush for 2 years IIRC. Those events didn't seem to last 2 years. Plus Caroline from her Dollhouse interview looked much more worn out and ragged than she did after infiltrating Rossum. I think there's much more backstory to Caroline. We just saw part 1.
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I don't relate to the characters, but they have gotten to the point where they interest me. Whenever someone goes into the chair I cringe a little bit, because clearly it hurts a little bit or is some kind of shock to their system.
When proto-Caroline was about to imprint Topher, immoral as he is, I felt scared for him. I'm just the tech guy, I'm just doing my job. Just an excuse, but I felt sympathy for him in that moment. I think that scene was really well acted.
What they do is horrible. None of the dollhouse staff are good people, anyone who has any sympathy is having to swallow it to some degree or another. But no one deserves what they do to the dolls, not the loss of identity or memory or personality, definitely not the rape (in Sierra's case).
I'm also wondering if that might be a turning point for Topher sometime soon. Character development-wise, I can see nothing more likely to change someone's perspectives than having to face themselves what they do to others. I really hope he doesn't just shrug this off and does some real introspective over this.
The Tech guy Ballard goes to see... He only got a small part in this episode, but from what little I saw of his shop, it seems like the ideal place for an wiping/imprinting chair, doesn't it?
When Echo is leading the other dolls out of the house, Boyd said it best: just a game or not, that was really impressive.
And I suspect that allowing the dolls some development and wiping them won't be quite the fix the staff are hoping for. ;) In fact, I suspect if the dolls maintain some echo of this on their blank slate, like we've seen happen before, I think this could only accellerate a true composite/awakening event.
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In "Echoes" the events seemed to follow one into the other. Caroline says "I know what I saw." and we know that DeWitt says (paraphrase) "What if actions didn't have to have consequences?" from the pilot. We also know she was in the dollhouse when Alpha flipped out, and he killed her handler. She was already a doll. Maybe the two years refers to how long she's been there, I don't know, but her landing in the dollhouse had nothing to do with Alpha, this I'm sure of. Unless, of course, her boyfriend didn't really die, and he's Alpha. I doubt that, though. [/sig]
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