Dollhouse - 2x11 - Getting Closer

[fembuck]

OH.

MY.

GOD.

Jesus H. Christ that was an amazing 45 min. of television.

My thoughts are gonna be all over the place on this one cause ...



My mind is BLOWN.

First of all, this was a very, very good episode for lady gay!  Every scene between Caroline and Bennett was GHEY AS HALE!   From the moment they met, Bennett was totally like:




Yeah, late night sex so wet, it's so tight
A gas of a jet for you tonight
Baby, you could go where ever you like
I said you could go where ever you like, yeah

I was shitting bricks during the hair washing scene.  The way it started I really and truly believed that it was a morning after scene and we'd get to see them kiss. 

[Caroline gently strokes a piece of hair out of Bennett's face]
Caroline:  We're going to make you pop.
Bennett:  I'm not sure I wish to ... pop.
Caroline:  You're going to pop ... and like it. 
[Caroline giggles, and then playfully helps Bennett take off her robe]
Caroline: Get in the chair.  Lay down.

Me:  0_o
*laughs hysterically*

Bennett:  I'd love to get a look at your amigdala
[Caroline smiles sexily]
Caroline: You'd have to buy me dinner first.

As it is I'm convinced that this really was a morning after scene (or perhaps a before evening scene lol) and the kissing will be on the season 2 DVDs deleted scenes. 

Also, HAIR WASHING *swoon* 

Honestly, now I'm going to be having dreams about Eliza Dushku gently massaging shampoo into my scalp, while soft light hits us gently and romantic music plays in the background.  I already legit love having my hair washed by someone else because it feels heavenly, and add Eliza Dushku into that equation and it's super-awesome-fun-time ... in my pants.

And as if the hair washing scene wasn't gay enough there was this exchange:

Caroline:  You're not pissed because I used you.
Bennett:  I'm hurt that you won't.

I mean ... UNF!


and then this exchange:

Caroline:  I'll make you an offer.  You resurrect Caroline Farrel long enough for me to save my friends and I'll let you do whatever you want to her.  I will hold the bitch down.
Bennett: Deal.

Me:  *feels uncomfortably damp in the undies region.*

Eliza and Summer have AMAZING chemistry together.  When they were breaking into the Rossum lab, I was struck by how awesome it would have been to see a show about Bennett and Caroline's Fabulous Adventures in Espionage.  Bennett would have been the Oracle to Caroline's Black Canary/Huntress.  Oh, it could have been so beautiful.  

But the lady gay wasn't confined to just Bennett and Caroline, oh ho no, Adelle had to squeeze her way in there and so did my bb Claire!  The scene with Adelle and Echo watching the video of Caroline was fraught with tension.  Mmm.  And Adelle's backtracking when it finally registered with her that Claire was back slayed me.  I think what I loved about it most (besides Olivia's Williams face) was that Claire looked so sad that Adelle had no reaction to her, like she couldn't believe her former lover wasn't even going to acknowledge her.

Speaking of my bb Claire ...



That was honestly so shocking to me.  She was all demure, and lurky, and wearing a white lab coaty ... and then all of a sudden BANG GUN BULLET HEAD DEAD ... OMG!

Also, it must be said.  As much as I loved the Bennett/Caroline scenes, the Bennett/Topher scenes were really cute as well.  Topher is love is really quite charming.  Priya and Anthony getting to go off for some afternoon delight was nice as well.  I've always liked those two together.  And Claire/Boyd was sweet for the 5 min.'s it was on screen.

Pretty much all of the couple-y stuff was good this episode except for Echo/Paul who continue to have no chemistry and be boring as fuck.  The whole 'you were the brightest line'/Topher stole their love conversation just left me yawning.  I was like, allow me to dredge up some care from give a fuck bay.

But ... BUT ... The ending was legit like:

WTF????

It was certainly a shocking reveal and one I would never have guessed (though I guess it does answer that series long question, "Why does Boyd stay with the Dollhouse if he finds what they do so reprehensible?").  Still, I feel kind of like giving Mutant Enemy this face:



Because Boyd was like my TV Daddy (because he is tall and huggable and protective like my real Dad) and so I don't want him to be a criminal mastermind.

Still, that reveal is going to make for a hell of an explosive ending for the series.  Like I cannot wait to see what is coming next week!

GRR ARGH!  I'm so mad this show got canceled!  Just like T:SCC the second season of this show started off kind of slow but by the end of the show it had gotten  so fucking awesome that I just wanted more, more, more, more, more!

Comments

[iterbit.livejournal.com]

Wow sums up the episode pretty well.

Loved the overall gayness!


I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who went with Claire offed Bennet to get back at Topher. Although, that's not to say Boyd wasn't involved, she easily could have been manipulated by him. It would have been nice if they had delved more in to why she hates Topher, they touched on it earlier this season, but with Claire MIA there was not more on it.

What really hurt this episode is that they're trying to condense everything from a series with a 5 year plan into the remainder of this season. Boyd as the big bad came out of left field which is made worse by the fact the even when he's revealed it still doesn't make all the blocks fall into place.


Am I the only one who hates Paul? Like was really happy when Alpha scrubbed the hell out of him.

[fembuck.livejournal.com]

What really hurt this episode is that they're trying to condense everything from a series with a 5 year plan into the remainder of this season.

This. They've had to shave down their master plan a lot.

Boyd as the big bad came out of left field which is made worse by the fact the even when he's revealed it still doesn't make all the blocks fall into place.

Well, it was only revealed in the last few seconds of the episode. I'm pretty sure they'll explain it in a plausible way in the episodes we have left. I doubt Boyd was their original plan for a Big Bad, but if they chose him I'm sure they chose him because they knew they could make it work with what they had already established and with what they had planned to end things.

Am I the only one who hates Paul? Like was really happy when Alpha scrubbed the hell out of him.

No. Paul has always been a complete drip. I've never really liked the character. Occasionally he could be somewhat amusing, but most of the time he was just a boring waste of space. When Alpha scrubbed his brain I was happy because I thought that would be the end of him. And him going back to his season 1 levels of asshole-y-ness definitely didn't do him any favors.