Yeah it was more interesting i thought the reveal at the end was well done.
However, we got a another female prostitute in this one, this time french, and the most we've had of a gigolo was victor in this episode picking out some leather chaps from his clothes rack and HILARIOUSLY throwing them away in shame. I think that makes it every single episode that we've had echo running around in an indefensibly skimpy costume inappropriate for her assignment with rarely a bare attempt at an excuse made, every single episode we've had one of the female 'dolls' playing a prostitute for some weird asshole, and the extent of male doll sexual engagements extends to a bad double take you could argue as homophobic and not seem that ridiculous, I think.
I don't think confronting your serial rapist by basically saying "you're mean!" and then having to run away because he's powerful and he always wins is any kind of closure for a rape victim either and it would annoy me if the show even allowed room for that kind of interpretation, but it basically just said "yip she's all closed up now. she's fixed!!!" and that's the end of the story this week. I'm sure there'll be more of this Sierra rape stuff, though, and who knows it might even be handled better in episodes but I doubt it.
I mean this isn't even a TERRIBLE idea for a show, but it's been executed about as poorly as it could be in every way.
First of all, don't call it Dollhouse - how about The Factory? With a few tweaks to the premise this could be a good name. So, don't make the focus of the show a bunch of mindless drones who occasionally get engaged in these ridiculous weekly cliche plots which can't claim an ounce of believable credibility, even when you accept the sci-fi angle. The show can still be about a factory of blank slates who get imprinted with various personalities and jobs, but let's not make them day long engagements - these people get sent out to the world with a host of conditioned responses, personality traits, and skills. They're everywhere, and they are what keeps the elite in power. That's why they exist. Then, let's say a couple of people from the factories become self-aware and realise that they have been acting out programming their entire adult lives and then the show becomes a politcal one about a little band of freedom fighters fighting the terror of the status quo and society's apparent indifference to it. That's a show I'd watch, that'd be a show with half a brain.
This show wasn't made with a brain in mind though, this show was made in the interest of Joss Whedon's sweaty balls and the only thing that annoys me about the inevitable network kicking of those balls back where they belong is that it won't be for the right reasons.
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