Dollhouse: The Wiggly Wire Gets the Worm
Yes, I made screencaps for this post. And this is in Celebration that next week I don't even have to accidentally on purpose forget to remember that Dollhouse is on after Smallville. Because Dollhouse will not be on Fox next Friday. It is at times like these that I can appreciate Fox enough to call their newservice biased (with a little B, you notice) propaganda and that Mr. Murdock's dyed red-brown hair looks near to natural as dyed red-brown hair can look from a very long distance away. See? I am graciousness and fairness personified.
Back in the Dollhouse, we have some Heathers playing Croquet:
but instead of Heather, Heather, and Winona and Shannon; we have Mommy, Little Sis, Big Sis, and the invoked many times, Aunt Shelia. And we just know that there will be trouble, because Winona and Shannon are trouble makers. And there is Christian Slater with slicked down hair and a plaid shirt who is just what the Heathers don't need. A WannaBe Heather. And he is Trouble with a capital T.
As usual with the Heathers, a croquet game turns nasty with name calling and murder:
Christian Slater has Mommy and Daddy issues and a propensity for violent weirdness. And honestly, Christian, the Heathers are the only ones who get to play Croquet together. Why aren't you playing Cricket? Kinda girly, aren't you. And he is---at the end, "Goodness Gracious", Christian is as girly as they come. And so is Victor. But we'll get there later.
Christian whacks Aunt Shelia with a croquet mallet and here we go. I'm thinking that Aunt Shelia's Handler will come in and whack Christian, but this is the Heathers with many twists of plot. Christian is running his own little dollhouse with animal tranquilizers and he has to go find another Heather to add to the diminished collection. But first, he has to take the mallets out of Shannon's and Winona's hands. Because things can really get wild when Winona is kicking back the animal tranquilizers.
Christian wanders the wilds of LA looking for the new Aunt Shelia and here I start thinking that he will find Madame DeWitt and recognize her appropriateness for that job; but twisted sister! Christian gets whacked by a car:
and I think that he just missed Mme DeWitt on her weekly trip to the Herbalists for her special tea that is now legal in California for Medicinal Purposes. Dr. Saunders writes Mme DeWitt's prescriptions and Mme. DeWitt is therefore a little concerned about Dr. Saunders who has run off, but not that much. We are talking about Mme DeWitt.
Christian ends up in The Dollhouse, not His dollhouse with wires, and a catheter, and a new weave hairdo. That Dollhouse, they are always fashionable.
The Dollhouse then puts Christian into Victor because that is another twist---you know, like Winona twisting in the wind when she took too much Valium.
But Topher who is a genius and he will tell you that, time and time again, about what a friggin' awesome, no godsome Genius that he is, Topher goes hunting Wiggly Worms in his electrical wires
and makes Victor some college girl seductress (who was Echo who becomes Christian). I know that it's complicated but Mr. Whedon provides a character map in crayons in the Cliff Notes.
HUH????? Yeah, Me too. Topher's Assistant Girl who is Maggie from SPN's Ghostfacers. Go back to Harry, honey. He is way better than Topher thinks that Topher is.
The Electrical Grips and Electricians on the crew of this show must blow out their sinuses from sniggering when they read these scripts. I can just imagine the snot and buggers on the wires and the light bulbs on set.
Anyway, Echo who was reading to some old College Prof in her high school underaged seductress outfit:
Wow! We just covered all of Mr. Whedon's sexual fetishes right here AND NOW.
Echo becomes Christian Slater, knifes the father figure
and heads back to His dollhouse to finish up that croquet game with the Heathers. That, or to blow up Christian's high school.
The Heathers huddle and then break the huddle. Primed to go:
Winona slugs back the Grey Goose and half a bottle of Heart Worm pills that she stole from her Vet's office where she goes with her pretend gryphon who is allergic to fairie dust. And I don't see where that is a problem for the Vet, Winona snorts all that dust up as soon as it falls in her house.
And the Croquet Battle of the Heathers IS ON! Goodness Gracious!
And Victor and XFBI CREEP go disco dancing:
And XFBI Creep is not SO CREEPY. Maybe he's just gay, in a creepy uncle gay way. Whatever, he couldn't keep Victor off the pole dancing.
And the episode ended, Thank Goodness Graciousness.
My opinion is that Alpha will find Echo much more companionable in the future when he comes back. They can form a Serial Killers Club with the Brain of Jeffery Dahmer.
Or maybe that is my brain after I watch this show.
Prince Avuncular Guy contemplates his Presence in the Dollhouse. And the Morality of it.
Madame DeWitt contemplates her need for control and why it has made her a Pimp and Procuress.
And I contemplate Pulling the Plug on the Dollhouse.