Dollhouse: Peeling back a layer

[me_llamo_nic]

Note: I wrote most of this a month or two ago, shortly before Stop Loss/The Attic aired. This extension of the Dollhouse metaphor doesn't really work with Epitaph One. It also falls apart starting in 'The Attic' and continuing through the remaining episodes, mostly because those are just a sprint toward the Epitaph scenario. If you haven't seen 'A

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[pocochina]

The clients are the mass viewing public

This? Might be my favorite thing about Dollhouse. It's really not afraid to turn the mirror back on the audience, and ask, "why are you watching this? Is this what you need?" The naked Eliza promo campaign - looking for all the world like a centerfold - is a total bait-and-switch for the actual show, which is all about you have no idea how the girl in the pictures feels; how we're as a society to pretend she doesn't feel anything at all. Even within the show, from that first (seemingly gratuitous) party scene in Ghost, and the guy lying to himself and her that she'll remember - people choose to be objectified, she does it because it empowers her - to the shot of the trinket falling out of Echo's hand in the chair. I miss my show *pouts*

[me_llamo_nic]

It's really not afraid to turn the mirror back on the audience, and ask, "why are you watching this? Is this what you need?"

That seems to pretty much be the mission statement in most people's eyes. Dollhouse is all about turning things around, even though it occasionally misses the mark. I love it for being so bold about things like that.

*pouts with you*