Saturday, December 12, 2009

Dollhouse 2x05

Have you been waiting impatiently for the Dollhouse to return? I know I have! Fast girls and furious action, flimsy plots and pretended female empowerment, sci-fi nerdery and purported ethical issues – what more can a modern guy ask for? Yay! Well, Senator Daniel Perrin is giving a press conference accusing the Rossum Corporation (that runs the various Dollhouses around the globe) of ethical maleficence, and is hoping to use Madeline (the former active called November) as a witness. She used to have a relationship with former FBI agent Paul Ballard (who is now Echo’s handler), when she herself was a sleeper operative spying on Ballard. The situation is putting pressure on Adele DeWitt, the head of the L.A. Dollhouse, as the Corporation is questioning her judgment when she released November two years before her five-year contract expired. It actually remains unclear why exactly Madeline suddenly turned against the Dollhouse.

That moralizing hypocrite senator son of a gun pretends he’s his wife’s knight in shining white armor and she’s his damsel in distress, that they live the happy-ever-after fairy-tale life, “it’s like they made her just for me,” he says in an interview ... O!M!G! You know what? Gasp! Could it be his very own wife’s a Doll?! Wow, that would be so messed up! Is she a sleeper and if so, to what end? To assassinate Perrin himself or any witnesses he might bring forward, like Madeline? DeWitt sends Echo on a mission setting up the senator with a nice video ... you know, wink, wink, nudge, nudge ... in a hotel room and all that... Meanwhile Ballard is supposed to rescue Madeline and take out the senator’s sleeper doll before she gets activated. Yet when he turns on some sort of gizmo that is supposed to knock out Dolls (active, sleeper or former ones), November and Echo fall to the floor, but not the senator’s wife...! The real kicker is in fact that Perrin himself was affected by it! Hahahaha! Didn’t see that one coming! Echo runs away, taking Perrin with her, shouting, “I think my bad guys are better than your bad guys!” From there things take twists and turns that are so wicked and exciting, I will have to leave it till next week! Aw, poor you! Can you take it?

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