RogueScribner wrote:Anyhoo, tonight's ep of Dollhouse was really good and certainly upped the game. It was jam packed with goodness and really sets the stage for more goodness down the road. Crazy theory: FBI dude is Alpha! I can't take credit for that theory--it's my wife's--but after this episode I think she might be right. It's the only reason why certain people would have been killed and others kept alive, IMO. I did totally call the neighbor being a Doll, though. I knew that from her first annoying introduction a few weeks back.
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Leckomaniac wrote:Just got caught up with this week's ep.
HOLY BALLS!
Totally awesome. Completely ramped up the show's badass-ness. I should have known better than to question whether or not Joss still had it in him. I hope the ratings hold steady or continue to tick up. I want this bad boy to continue if it is going to provide thrills like this.
I honestly can't believe how much was in this ep. It was just so jam packed, but the pacing at no point felt rushed. Kudos to Mr. Whedon, once more!
John-Locke wrote:The last episode I watched was the one with the Singer who wanted her fan to kill her, I gave up after that and haven't missed it. Do you think I can skip straight to this supposedly good episode or was there stuff in the others that is integral to the plot?
TonyWilson wrote:John-Locke wrote:The last episode I watched was the one with the Singer who wanted her fan to kill her, I gave up after that and haven't missed it. Do you think I can skip straight to this supposedly good episode or was there stuff in the others that is integral to the plot?
Ditto
John-Locke wrote:The last episode I watched was the one with the Singer who wanted her fan to kill her, I gave up after that and haven't missed it. Do you think I can skip straight to this supposedly good episode or was there stuff in the others that is integral to the plot?
BuckyO'harre wrote:Drugs are fun.
DennisMM wrote:I just started watching episode seven on Hulu. The Rossum Corporation? The Rossum building? Wow, how subtle.
The Rossum Corporation, and the Rossum Building on campus, takes its name from Karel Èapek's 1931 science-fiction stage play R.U.R., later translated to English under the full title of Rossum's Universal Robots. The play introduced (and popularized) the term robot in reference to automatons. In the play, the robots are not purely mechanical systems, but rather organic creatures assembled in a factory, more resembling the current definition of "clone" than that of "robot".
papalazeru wrote:The Rossum Corporation, and the Rossum Building on campus, takes its name from Karel Èapek's 1931 science-fiction stage play R.U.R., later translated to English under the full title of Rossum's Universal Robots. The play introduced (and popularized) the term robot in reference to automatons. In the play, the robots are not purely mechanical systems, but rather organic creatures assembled in a factory, more resembling the current definition of "clone" than that of "robot".
That is the most likely candidate. Mind you, The Rossum Project is an open source robotics project, and Rossum was a designer for Python (don't know if he still it or not) and did have links with Darpa.
Was going to save this item until my usual Friday morning “Dollhouse” post, but my emailbox is exploding and my hand is forced.
"Dollhouse" actress Felicia Day “twittered” today that Fox won’t air the 13th and final episode of “Dollhouse’s” first season:Man, day getting worse and worse. Found out my Dollhouse ep, #13 isn't gonna air. Only on DVD. Such a great part too. Thx Fox.
Panic reigns, though Fox confirms nothing so far, and is certainly not yet declaring the series cancelled.
Word is the series’ May 8 12th episode, “Omega,” is highly season-finale like, and the Joss Whedon-directed 13th, “Epitaph One,” is more of a tacked-on epilogue made specifically to fulfill the series' contractual 13-episode DVD obligation. (Perhaps it’s a “Buffy” season-four kind of thing: David Fury’s penultimate episode “Primeval” effectively concluded the season-four arc by destroying the Frankensteiny Adam and the Sunnydale branch of The Initiative -- but the season technically ended with the standalone dream-happy Cheese Man episode “Restless” written and directed by series mastermind Whedon.)
“Dollhouse” writer-producer Tim Minear explains the finale situation on Whedonesque.com:Okay. So maybe I can help clarify this somewhat. Because we scrapped the original pilot -- and in fact cannibalized some of its parts for other eps -- we really ended up with 12 episodes. But the studio makes DVD and other deals based on the original 13 number. So we created a standalone kind of coda episode. Which is the mythical new episode 13. The network had already paid for 13 episodes, and this included the one they agreed to let us scrap for parts. It does not include the one we made to bring the number back up to 13 for the studio side and its obligations. We always knew it would be for the DVD for sure, but we also think Fox should air it because it’s awesome.
Day guest stars in the finale, and maybe “Firefly” vet Alan Tudyk, rumored to play the murderous “active” Alpha, too.
I am reminded that NBC wasn’t going to air the “Journeyman” finale – until it did.
The ninth "Dollhouse" episode, "Spy in the House of Love," airs Friday.
RogueScribner wrote:Another good episode. I thought it was weird how they knew to break into the NSA to get a mole's identity, but then it made sense later on. I like what they're doing with Echo. The mole was seemingly caught, but was he? Dominic said he was trying to make sure the Dollhouse was contained and it seems the spy who keeps sending messages to Ballard wants it exposed. I'm thinking maybe Saunders is the true mole, which would explain why she never leaves the complex.
DennisMM wrote:Last night was interesting and hilarious at several points. I don't know if those were deliberately hilarious or just from the cheese factor that grows out of most adventure-action oriented programming.
1. DeWitt is shot in the abdomen and shows almost no distress, only flinching while they complete Dominic's wipe and during the extraction of the bullet. (At least Ballard collapsed after killing/beating the Russian maf types when he was shot.)
2. They build up Sierra's "roof extraction" from the NSA, going to a commercial when she finds she's stuck at a locked door - and no resolution is shown. Just too expensive or subverting the action genre?
3. The entire sequence with Sierra infiltrating the NSA. She appears to be taller than the woman whose place she assumed and her face is much thinner and eyes more almond-shaped. But one asian woman in a bowl haircut pretty much looks like another, right? Even the guard who knew the character's name didn't blink twice!
The Vicar wrote:Is it just me, or does the premise of this series seem like what River Tam would likely have been doing if her brother hadn't rescued her from the lab?
swoop91 wrote:Cmon, you guys can't be serious with having no one commenting episode 10!
I loved it. Toufer (or whatsitspelled) and Sierra, Echo and "who killed the old lady", lady in charge and black security guy..
burlivesleftnut wrote:swoop91 wrote:Cmon, you guys can't be serious with having no one commenting episode 10!
I loved it. Toufer (or whatsitspelled) and Sierra, Echo and "who killed the old lady", lady in charge and black security guy..
For some reason my DVR only recorded the previews for next week. Can anyone give a detailed, spoilery synop?
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