Little Caroline, Redhead 1 & Redhead 2 were the best things about this episode. Epitaph 1 did a much better job of selling the post apocalyptic world.
From the top of a skyscraper to the high plains of Arizona, I've been to Arizona and I had to drive there through West Texas. Silly me! I should have just gone to the top of an abandoned skyscraper building and broken a window and climbed to the roof and Voilà! Tucson!!!!
LOL! Yeah what was up with that. I was looking forward to seeing what was up there too.
Especially with the lack of rainfall for all those organic crops.
LOL!
Mother Madame DeWitt who is wearing a faded cotton gown that she grew and weaved and sewed and bleached (evidently) and hasn't combed her hair in three years because combs are plastic! and Not Green! and not Mother Gaia Approved!
Notice however that Echo's hair is glossy, wavy and commercial ready. *rolls eyes* That's part of what made this episode so much less interesting than epitaph one. Everyone looked so good and healthy and happy. It didn't seem like the end of the world in safe haven at all. They kept on telling me they were losing the war... but I didn't see them losing and I didn't see any war.
Techies are the only interesting thing about this story. They wear flash drive personalities around their necks and plug them into their faces for knowledge and a personality. I gather that they ride around the country side of Tucson raping and pillaging.
Oooh they were very interesting. It would have been more fun to hitch a ride with them for the whole episode.
Yeah... this episode just... what did the last two episodes really have to do with anything? It was just... strange. The biggest problems for me was that it didn't FEEL like the end. I didn't get the danger they were in. I didn't get what Topher was trying to do... and in the end it just seemed like a huge copout to have him magically be able to reverse everything. LOL! Everyone seemed to be on the verge of tears... they were all acting so hard to convey how weary they were. LOL!
Echo/Paul has always been so creepy to me and devoid of depth of feeling. I mean it's not even fun in a kinky way, it's just plain creepy. When he had his hand on her shoulder it was as though she was an extention of her chair... it was just... weird. He was much better with Mellie and Echo had a much better connection with crazy Boyd than she ever did with Paul. So when Paul died it was just... meh. Then for Echo to have this whole crisis... this breakdown about his death... HUH?! Why not have something like this happen between Priya and Anthony if anyone? Their story seemed much more interesting and we came in on the end of it.
By the end I was just... hopeful that little girl and red haired guy would have an ok life. But if the crazy body snatching corporate men still have remote wipes... I don't know that this was even a happy ending. Very unsatisfying end to Dollhouse. As a whole the show was a mixed bag.
They kept on telling me they were losing the war... but I didn't see them losing and I didn't see any war.
Yeah, you couldn't believe anything that those people said. ☹
It would have been more fun to hitch a ride with them for the whole episode.
There you've got it. That is how the episode should have been written, from the Techie viewpoint. We would have seen a lot of the best actor on the show, Mr. Gjokai, and it would have been exciting. Following the Red Heads and Little Caroline was just re-hashing Epitaph One with no new perspectives on it. Epitaph Two should have given us another point of view and another set of possibilities.
and in the end it just seemed like a huge copout to have him magically be able to reverse everything. LOL! Everyone seemed to be on the verge of tears... they were all acting so hard to convey how weary they were. LOL!
So VERY TRUE! I Second You! Hahaha! I Epitaph TOO you! :-D ☺
So when Paul died it was just... meh. Then for Echo to have this whole crisis... this breakdown about his death... HUH?!
This show was miscast in some of the important parts. I really think that Miss Dushku would have been better as the FBI agent pursuing the Dollhouse. She didn't have the acting range to play the different personalities that being a Doll gave her. But I think that she does have Star Charisma. I like her and I'll watch her. She is not an Actor, she is a Star!
And the actor who played Ballard didn't appeal to me at all. He has a nice body, but he gives off a rather perverse and smug aura. And he walks like a Pimp---so maybe that is why they cast him. They knew that they were going to make him Echo's Pimp. And I've got to say that even Mellie started grating on my nerves in Episode 12. And Boyd:::sigh:::I liked him as a hero and villain. I would have really preferred to know more of his backstory and Madame DeWitt's. And how did Victor and Pryia fall apart when they were always so linked together by their true attraction?
Blowing up everything in Episode 12 didn't work. I don't know why anyone (or any viewer) would think that blowing up things in Epitaph Two (or Tripe, as I like to think of it) would stop the Corporate Honchos for long.
I don't know that Dollhouse was a good choice for good trash TV. Good Trash TV is supposed to expand one's affection for it and make one dream up good fanfic in one's mind. This show just ended up exasperating me. My next pick had better be Better!
From the top of a skyscraper to the high plains of Arizona, I've been to Arizona and I had to drive there through West Texas. Silly me! I should have just gone to the top of an abandoned skyscraper building and broken a window and climbed to the roof and Voilà! Tucson!!!!
LOL! Yeah what was up with that. I was looking forward to seeing what was up there too.
Especially with the lack of rainfall for all those organic crops.
LOL!
Mother Madame DeWitt who is wearing a faded cotton gown that she grew and weaved and sewed and bleached (evidently) and hasn't combed her hair in three years because combs are plastic! and Not Green! and not Mother Gaia Approved!
Notice however that Echo's hair is glossy, wavy and commercial ready. *rolls eyes* That's part of what made this episode so much less interesting than epitaph one. Everyone looked so good and healthy and happy. It didn't seem like the end of the world in safe haven at all. They kept on telling me they were losing the war... but I didn't see them losing and I didn't see any war.
Techies are the only interesting thing about this story. They wear flash drive personalities around their necks and plug them into their faces for knowledge and a personality. I gather that they ride around the country side of Tucson raping and pillaging.
Oooh they were very interesting. It would have been more fun to hitch a ride with them for the whole episode.
Yeah... this episode just... what did the last two episodes really have to do with anything? It was just... strange. The biggest problems for me was that it didn't FEEL like the end. I didn't get the danger they were in. I didn't get what Topher was trying to do... and in the end it just seemed like a huge copout to have him magically be able to reverse everything. LOL! Everyone seemed to be on the verge of tears... they were all acting so hard to convey how weary they were. LOL!
Echo/Paul has always been so creepy to me and devoid of depth of feeling. I mean it's not even fun in a kinky way, it's just plain creepy. When he had his hand on her shoulder it was as though she was an extention of her chair... it was just... weird. He was much better with Mellie and Echo had a much better connection with crazy Boyd than she ever did with Paul. So when Paul died it was just... meh. Then for Echo to have this whole crisis... this breakdown about his death... HUH?! Why not have something like this happen between Priya and Anthony if anyone? Their story seemed much more interesting and we came in on the end of it.
By the end I was just... hopeful that little girl and red haired guy would have an ok life. But if the crazy body snatching corporate men still have remote wipes... I don't know that this was even a happy ending. Very unsatisfying end to Dollhouse. As a whole the show was a mixed bag.
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Yeah, you couldn't believe anything that those people said. ☹
It would have been more fun to hitch a ride with them for the whole episode.
There you've got it. That is how the episode should have been written, from the Techie viewpoint. We would have seen a lot of the best actor on the show, Mr. Gjokai, and it would have been exciting. Following the Red Heads and Little Caroline was just re-hashing Epitaph One with no new perspectives on it. Epitaph Two should have given us another point of view and another set of possibilities.
and in the end it just seemed like a huge copout to have him magically be able to reverse everything. LOL! Everyone seemed to be on the verge of tears... they were all acting so hard to convey how weary they were. LOL!
So VERY TRUE! I Second You! Hahaha! I Epitaph TOO you! :-D ☺
So when Paul died it was just... meh. Then for Echo to have this whole crisis... this breakdown about his death... HUH?!
This show was miscast in some of the important parts. I really think that Miss Dushku would have been better as the FBI agent pursuing the Dollhouse. She didn't have the acting range to play the different personalities that being a Doll gave her. But I think that she does have Star Charisma. I like her and I'll watch her. She is not an Actor, she is a Star!
And the actor who played Ballard didn't appeal to me at all. He has a nice body, but he gives off a rather perverse and smug aura. And he walks like a Pimp---so maybe that is why they cast him. They knew that they were going to make him Echo's Pimp. And I've got to say that even Mellie started grating on my nerves in Episode 12. And Boyd:::sigh:::I liked him as a hero and villain. I would have really preferred to know more of his backstory and Madame DeWitt's. And how did Victor and Pryia fall apart when they were always so linked together by their true attraction?
Blowing up everything in Episode 12 didn't work. I don't know why anyone (or any viewer) would think that blowing up things in Epitaph Two (or Tripe, as I like to think of it) would stop the Corporate Honchos for long.
I don't know that Dollhouse was a good choice for good trash TV. Good Trash TV is supposed to expand one's affection for it and make one dream up good fanfic in one's mind. This show just ended up exasperating me. My next pick had better be Better!
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