Dollhouse - 1x13 - Epitath One
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fembuckWhat a mind fuck!
Holy hell that is a dystopian future! I mean, I knew that what the Dollhouse was doing wouldn't lead to anything good, but I don't think that I'd picture that scale of devastation. Wiping entire cities at once and having bands of mindless butchers roaming the streets hadn't even occurred to me. I was watching parts of the episode like:
This might honestly be one of, if not the most horrifying visions of the future I've seen on screen. Like damn.
Amy Acker continues to amaze and astound me. She's so good.
I love her like James Franco loves pie. She's glorious. I love Dr. Saunders more than Whiskey tbh, but no matter what character she's playing she's awesome. When Boyd was leaving, Acker had me near tears. Oh, emotional!Claire, come to woman's breast! I will comfort thee! And as Whiskey she was otherworldly and mesmerizing. I just loved everything that had to do with Acker/Whiskey/Saunders.
Adelle! My British baby. I really loved seeing the changes in Adelle through time in the flashbacks this episode. To see her go from being that glowing, smug, supremely confident director, to the broken, lost woman just trying to preserve what dignity she could for the people under her care in a world she had helped destroy was amazing. Also, it has to be said, I want Adelle Dewitt to cuddle me and kiss my forehead when I'm feeling sad. She looks like she gives amazing hug.
Also, the way she said, "Caroline does" when talking about who had a cure, cracked my shit up. The look of distaste on her face was amazing.
Topher, dude. I was laughing with/at you in the beginning (insulting Dominic always wins me over), but seeing the complete meltdown he had as a result of realizing what his experimentations and ideas about the technology had led to was moving. His rambling at the end about not doign things just because he knew how was a little heavy handed, but it needed to be said. That characters zeal for exploring fucking dangerous ideas has always bugged the hell out of me, and it made me like him a bit more to see him suffering because of what he had done.
I liked learning that Caroline is learning to/will be able to keep her personality, even while still going through the imprinting process. No wonder the she gets fucking headaches. That shit must me insane. I liked the scenes with Caroline and Dr. Saunders, and Caroline and Adelle as well. The stuff with just Echo and Paul kind of bored of me. Paul is just such dead weight (I still love you Tahmoh), and Caroline is only tolerable when she's on screen with characters that I like (like Saunders and Dewitt), otherwise she's irritating.
Why Papi thought it was a good idea to shower is beyond me. I was sad to see her go, but really ... dumb, gurl, really dumb. As soon as your took your clothes off, I'd already said goodbye to you.
I didn't really care too much about the future people (their future lingo really, really bothered me). I mean I'm happy some of them got out, but that little girl was best out of all of them. She went from being annoying, to creepy as hell, to someone that I would follow into battle. Pretty awesome job for an actress that's like 10. And I'm sad to say I just don't get the Felicia Day love. She's like a less memorable (and irritable) Chloe O’Brien (aka Mary Lynn Rajskub) to me.
I don't really know what else to say, this episode amazed me but left me feeling generally depressed. That future is so bleak! So very, very bleak! At the very least it's given me a lot of insentive to cheer for Caroline and company even though they are boring fuckjobs. If season 2 is the season of convincing me that what the characters are doing will make sure this future doesn't happen then I'm all for it.
Download link for anyone who hasn't seen the episode yet (change the 'xx' to 'tt')
Holy hell that is a dystopian future! I mean, I knew that what the Dollhouse was doing wouldn't lead to anything good, but I don't think that I'd picture that scale of devastation. Wiping entire cities at once and having bands of mindless butchers roaming the streets hadn't even occurred to me. I was watching parts of the episode like:
This might honestly be one of, if not the most horrifying visions of the future I've seen on screen. Like damn.
Amy Acker continues to amaze and astound me. She's so good.
I love her like James Franco loves pie. She's glorious. I love Dr. Saunders more than Whiskey tbh, but no matter what character she's playing she's awesome. When Boyd was leaving, Acker had me near tears. Oh, emotional!Claire, come to woman's breast! I will comfort thee! And as Whiskey she was otherworldly and mesmerizing. I just loved everything that had to do with Acker/Whiskey/Saunders.
Adelle! My British baby. I really loved seeing the changes in Adelle through time in the flashbacks this episode. To see her go from being that glowing, smug, supremely confident director, to the broken, lost woman just trying to preserve what dignity she could for the people under her care in a world she had helped destroy was amazing. Also, it has to be said, I want Adelle Dewitt to cuddle me and kiss my forehead when I'm feeling sad. She looks like she gives amazing hug.
Also, the way she said, "Caroline does" when talking about who had a cure, cracked my shit up. The look of distaste on her face was amazing.
Topher, dude. I was laughing with/at you in the beginning (insulting Dominic always wins me over), but seeing the complete meltdown he had as a result of realizing what his experimentations and ideas about the technology had led to was moving. His rambling at the end about not doign things just because he knew how was a little heavy handed, but it needed to be said. That characters zeal for exploring fucking dangerous ideas has always bugged the hell out of me, and it made me like him a bit more to see him suffering because of what he had done.
I liked learning that Caroline is learning to/will be able to keep her personality, even while still going through the imprinting process. No wonder the she gets fucking headaches. That shit must me insane. I liked the scenes with Caroline and Dr. Saunders, and Caroline and Adelle as well. The stuff with just Echo and Paul kind of bored of me. Paul is just such dead weight (I still love you Tahmoh), and Caroline is only tolerable when she's on screen with characters that I like (like Saunders and Dewitt), otherwise she's irritating.
Why Papi thought it was a good idea to shower is beyond me. I was sad to see her go, but really ... dumb, gurl, really dumb. As soon as your took your clothes off, I'd already said goodbye to you.
I didn't really care too much about the future people (their future lingo really, really bothered me). I mean I'm happy some of them got out, but that little girl was best out of all of them. She went from being annoying, to creepy as hell, to someone that I would follow into battle. Pretty awesome job for an actress that's like 10. And I'm sad to say I just don't get the Felicia Day love. She's like a less memorable (and irritable) Chloe O’Brien (aka Mary Lynn Rajskub) to me.
I don't really know what else to say, this episode amazed me but left me feeling generally depressed. That future is so bleak! So very, very bleak! At the very least it's given me a lot of insentive to cheer for Caroline and company even though they are boring fuckjobs. If season 2 is the season of convincing me that what the characters are doing will make sure this future doesn't happen then I'm all for it.
Download link for anyone who hasn't seen the episode yet (change the 'xx' to 'tt')
