Episode Reactions in Brief

[alixtii]

Dollhouse 2x04

Between this and "Epitaph One," I'm really falling in love with Adelle.

Sarah Jane Adventures 3x04

So, has anyone written K-9/Mr. Smith yet?

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[frogfarm]

I was highly metamused when Keith Carradine disappeared from Dexter only to show up on Dollhouse...and then in the same episode, in the last ten minutes, Dollhouse turned into Dexter.

[likeadeuce]

So, do you think that Adele really saw a moral distinction between taking a crazy person and making them a sex-robot, and turning a sane person crazy for the purpose of making them a sex-robot? Or was she just reacting to Keith Carradine's power play? If there was a distinction in her mind (because to me there's really not -- the first one is already so horrible that I don't think there's a line left to cross -- what do you think it was based on? I have a theory but I'm curious what yours is.

[alixtii]

Between this ep and "Epitaph One," I really can't read Adelle as having anything other than an ironclad set of ethics . . . which just happens to be a bit looser than most people's. So yeah, I really think she does. That much as an extrapolation of her character seems to me pretty certain. (Also, I just plain prefer that interpretation: I think right-angles-morality Adelle is much more interesting than amoral Adelle).

If the task is to try and construct an ethic by which the one action is okay but the other isn't (and I do think the latter is worse and not morally equivalent at all even if I think both are too morally problematic to undertake), then we're on much less firm ground: well, then, Topher got as much consent from Priya as, to his and to his Adelle's knowledge at that point, she was able to give, and would ever be able to give (at least without a level of intervention that only Topher would be able to provide?). Insane!Priya was who Priya wasWhile you and I would not consider that sufficient to justify making her an active

[likeadeuce]

It's possible I don't understand what Topher is supposed to have done to Priya. He was acting as though he had cured her schizophrenia, but then, how does that lead to her being a doll?

[alixtii]

I'm not quite sure where the episode implied Topher did anything at all to Priya, although of course he would have had to have made sure that Sierra wasn't suffering from Priya's affliction.