In last week’s episode, Echo (Eliza Dushku), one of the Dollhouse’s Actives, has been imprinted to thinks she’s just given birth, and now she lactates! To explain, we’re told that “the human mind is like Van Halen, if you just pull out one piece and keep replacing it, it just degenerates.” Genius! Interesting that Echo and Sierra (the very attractive Dichen Lachman) are employed on the same engagement... Why? Anyway, Echo is married to this guy who’s never home, but who locks his office behind him at home, and now she’s getting paranoid. She wants to know what the guy is up to. She’s suspecting that he’s having an affair and finds photos of him with another woman... He tells her that’s someone he loved before but she died...
And just when it’s getting too boring ... she overhears him saying, “This isn’t working, get rid of her and I’ll get rid of the baby.” Echo flees with the kid, and her husband complains to the Dollhouse that instead of a wife they sent him a kidnapping freak. (Oh, the woman he loved died in childbirth and he paid the Dollhouse to give him a replacement mother!) Her “handler” returns her to the lab, but after her mind-swiping treatment she punches geek boy Topher in the nose. She runs out, gets in a car, because her maternal instincts from the engagement couldn’t be wiped out... A sudden spell of thunder and lightning, and a power outage later and the baby is gone! “Mommy’s home.”
Oh, gosh, does it really sound as sci-fi crap as I think it does? This show is a lot of fun, though, with some effort at psychological, ethical and philosophical depth, even if you have to try hard catching it. We also continue to get bits and pieces of other plot-lines. There’s the senator who’s out to get the company behind the Dollhouse for their unethical, inhuman practices. And now we also get another plot: that of former Dollhouse operative Madeline. Hmmm, where is all of this going to take us?
And just when it’s getting too boring ... she overhears him saying, “This isn’t working, get rid of her and I’ll get rid of the baby.” Echo flees with the kid, and her husband complains to the Dollhouse that instead of a wife they sent him a kidnapping freak. (Oh, the woman he loved died in childbirth and he paid the Dollhouse to give him a replacement mother!) Her “handler” returns her to the lab, but after her mind-swiping treatment she punches geek boy Topher in the nose. She runs out, gets in a car, because her maternal instincts from the engagement couldn’t be wiped out... A sudden spell of thunder and lightning, and a power outage later and the baby is gone! “Mommy’s home.”
Oh, gosh, does it really sound as sci-fi crap as I think it does? This show is a lot of fun, though, with some effort at psychological, ethical and philosophical depth, even if you have to try hard catching it. We also continue to get bits and pieces of other plot-lines. There’s the senator who’s out to get the company behind the Dollhouse for their unethical, inhuman practices. And now we also get another plot: that of former Dollhouse operative Madeline. Hmmm, where is all of this going to take us?
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