Dollhouse 2.2
http://www.hulu.com/watch/99410/dollhouse-instinct
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WORST EPISODE EVER!
Though overall not that bad.
Well they all can't be winners.
It is in close running with the Rihanna/Britney thing, but her twist was a bit more interesting there.
Also stuff in this one may age well as has the Rihanna/Britney episode has.
meh. nothing really great happening in that one: VICTOR has eyes? ECHO is clever.
Also this comes when there's all kinds of things to explore vs. back when people just looking for something? anything? so a bigger let down now.
I caught a glimpse of this episode's trailer, some variation on ECHO's going to be a 'mother' à la "Hand That Rocks The Craddle" (or I'm assuming having never seen it).
Paul's interested in the chair.
Topher asks if Paul would like a treatment?, though Paul could have some special block in which case he can only be triggered by a special catch phrase "это курам на смех". Then he goes for treatments... though likely not based on 'Epitaph One' (E1).
Sorry to break it to you Topher, but there are drugs that can do that, there are probably drugs that can tweak the hormone levels as well if not the same drugs.
So it's a 'boob episode', well not in the traditional sense ... {shrugs}.
In any case, when you can't make the Sci-fi sort-of-quasi-believable, don't go on and on about it. Star Trek sort of gets this right or more often.
(never-mind their characterization, plot, which were often tweaked to much to fit the episode, or we just don't worry about the things altogether. See some of your latter Voyagers ... oughh {cringes} )
So it's a nifty mystery, what's exactly the situation? Did he kill his wife? Is the baby his? Why's SIERRA along as companion house frau? Is there something more to all of this?
...and...
NO.
... no there's not...
In the end it's the conventional garden variety thing, we thought it was. {yawns} nothing terribly clever or mind blowing.
You can afford a doll, but a nanny to come in after you've dismissed the doll is out of the question? Just you mixing up your own formula etc. etc. {eye-roll}
Maybe he got a special 'house 'scholarship'.
The twist moment with Topher was kinda cool.
Why was she talking to the car?
ECHO developing something resembling a character is kind of new... but she's still a bit retarded at this stage.
Now to the meager plot points... Wesley Kennedy/Obama.
He's still after the FDA for killing his mother, but is confusing them the Rossum Corporation.
He has a nifty wife.
Though we're going for the meddlesome active politically wife, opposed to the 'passive' appearing idea (don't take 'meddlesome' wrong,
their husbands are also meddlesome to a worse degree -- it's a problem).
Anyway, Wesley is getting shades of the 'house, but has no real evidence.
Obviously his wife is suspected as a doll, as is he.
Although considering they're adversaries, it makes it less challenging if they can be wiped. Even so ... due to E1 we know the ultimate outcome of that battle (assuming you've seen it, if not maybe you should wait on that one)
... and NOVEMBER.
Unfortunately I can read credits... that ruined some of the surprise.
Though good to see her, I wasn't sure we would again.
mmm... tasty cooper. This is pretty much a non-event, but we're likely building for something later?
Methinks she goes crazy, possibly killing her self, maybe others, maybe goes catatonic with repressed grief.
Introduces the idea of the 'house not being 'all bad' for participants.
I thought maybe when ECHO knocked her over we were going to have a thing like in the previous episode where your imprints flood back and get all confused. Maybe, but obviously not this episode.
I think an Ω:OMEGA type event is required for brain corrupting thing, assuming static rules.
Of course if one has seen E1, we have very cryptic reference to a 'NOVEMBER' ??? so thing may not bode well for her (or they may {eye-roll}, or as well as anyone in E1 {smirk} ).
Maybe they can reactivate her at their will? Ring, ring, "There are three flowers in a vase, ..."
Creepy where she's just sitting having tea with Adelle, that was just weird and twisted.
I still reserve the theory that perhaps she's the only person ever to have been released from the 'house. They run people until they break, then send them to the attic.
Contracts, Smontracts.
There's just an inordinate amount of awkwardness and underlying creepiness in the proceedings, if they do this all the time it's supposed to be routine.
No Saunders, No Boyd -- more reason why this episode 'sucked'.
Still better than the worst episode of Buffy I think that was the very gay special Christmas Episode around the middle of Season 3.
Worlds upon worlds better than the worst episodes of Angel {cringes} Season 5 {cringing cont'd}.
The Firefly with Jonathan Woodward (to complete his Whedon hat-trick. If he appears here -- quasi-well intentioned bad guy. Pretty much anybody from Firefly is destined to be bad as well, see the track record).
Didn't watch the trailer.
LAST EPISODE
NEXT EPISODE
WORST EPISODE EVER!
Though overall not that bad.
Well they all can't be winners.
It is in close running with the Rihanna/Britney thing, but her twist was a bit more interesting there.
Also stuff in this one may age well as has the Rihanna/Britney episode has.
meh. nothing really great happening in that one: VICTOR has eyes? ECHO is clever.
Also this comes when there's all kinds of things to explore vs. back when people just looking for something? anything? so a bigger let down now.
I caught a glimpse of this episode's trailer, some variation on ECHO's going to be a 'mother' à la "Hand That Rocks The Craddle" (or I'm assuming having never seen it).
Paul's interested in the chair.
Topher asks if Paul would like a treatment?, though Paul could have some special block in which case he can only be triggered by a special catch phrase "это курам на смех". Then he goes for treatments... though likely not based on 'Epitaph One' (E1).
Sorry to break it to you Topher, but there are drugs that can do that, there are probably drugs that can tweak the hormone levels as well if not the same drugs.
So it's a 'boob episode', well not in the traditional sense ... {shrugs}.
In any case, when you can't make the Sci-fi sort-of-quasi-believable, don't go on and on about it. Star Trek sort of gets this right or more often.
(never-mind their characterization, plot, which were often tweaked to much to fit the episode, or we just don't worry about the things altogether. See some of your latter Voyagers ... oughh {cringes} )
So it's a nifty mystery, what's exactly the situation? Did he kill his wife? Is the baby his? Why's SIERRA along as companion house frau? Is there something more to all of this?
...and...
NO.
... no there's not...
In the end it's the conventional garden variety thing, we thought it was. {yawns} nothing terribly clever or mind blowing.
You can afford a doll, but a nanny to come in after you've dismissed the doll is out of the question? Just you mixing up your own formula etc. etc. {eye-roll}
Maybe he got a special 'house 'scholarship'.
The twist moment with Topher was kinda cool.
Why was she talking to the car?
ECHO developing something resembling a character is kind of new... but she's still a bit retarded at this stage.
Now to the meager plot points... Wesley Kennedy/Obama.
He's still after the FDA for killing his mother, but is confusing them the Rossum Corporation.
He has a nifty wife.
Though we're going for the meddlesome active politically wife, opposed to the 'passive' appearing idea (don't take 'meddlesome' wrong,
their husbands are also meddlesome to a worse degree -- it's a problem).
Anyway, Wesley is getting shades of the 'house, but has no real evidence.
Obviously his wife is suspected as a doll, as is he.
Although considering they're adversaries, it makes it less challenging if they can be wiped. Even so ... due to E1 we know the ultimate outcome of that battle (assuming you've seen it, if not maybe you should wait on that one)
... and NOVEMBER.
Unfortunately I can read credits... that ruined some of the surprise.
Though good to see her, I wasn't sure we would again.
mmm... tasty cooper. This is pretty much a non-event, but we're likely building for something later?
Methinks she goes crazy, possibly killing her self, maybe others, maybe goes catatonic with repressed grief.
Introduces the idea of the 'house not being 'all bad' for participants.
I thought maybe when ECHO knocked her over we were going to have a thing like in the previous episode where your imprints flood back and get all confused. Maybe, but obviously not this episode.
I think an Ω:OMEGA type event is required for brain corrupting thing, assuming static rules.
Of course if one has seen E1, we have very cryptic reference to a 'NOVEMBER' ??? so thing may not bode well for her (or they may {eye-roll}, or as well as anyone in E1 {smirk} ).
Maybe they can reactivate her at their will? Ring, ring, "There are three flowers in a vase, ..."
Creepy where she's just sitting having tea with Adelle, that was just weird and twisted.
I still reserve the theory that perhaps she's the only person ever to have been released from the 'house. They run people until they break, then send them to the attic.
Contracts, Smontracts.
There's just an inordinate amount of awkwardness and underlying creepiness in the proceedings, if they do this all the time it's supposed to be routine.
No Saunders, No Boyd -- more reason why this episode 'sucked'.
Still better than the worst episode of Buffy I think that was the very gay special Christmas Episode around the middle of Season 3.
Worlds upon worlds better than the worst episodes of Angel {cringes} Season 5 {cringing cont'd}.
The Firefly with Jonathan Woodward (to complete his Whedon hat-trick. If he appears here -- quasi-well intentioned bad guy. Pretty much anybody from Firefly is destined to be bad as well, see the track record).
Didn't watch the trailer.