Dollhouse ~ Season 2 so Far!

Warning warning, we will be incredibly behind on TV all week! Since we’re mostly up to date (still need to finish last night’s Mad Men), we’ll try to cover what we can and see how it goes from there. First up: Dollhouse.
Dollhouse

To start off, we must apologize to Dollhouse because it has been getting the blogging shaft. We’ve been watching and loving, to be sure! I think it feels like there is so much to discuss, that any attempt to blog about it simply won’t be able to cover everything we’d like. So, with lowered blogging expectations, we’ll keep it brief  still be way too long, but not try to cover every second of the episodes.

As for the first episode, we loved Whiskey/Dr. Saunders going all sorts of crazy on Topher. Their scene together was awesome. For now she has fled the Dollhouse. Anyone else kind of amazed she was able to make it out of the building? I mean, I know she’s “the doctor” but she’s also an active – does this means he has a handler? Who’s not doing their job there? In the meantime, I eagerly await the inevitable moment when Fred and Wesley are reunited – it has to happen, right? Her path is destined to cross with Alexis Denisof’s character. Disgruntled active with too much information, meet over ambitious Senator with an eye for bringing down the Rossum Corporation.

And now, a brief detour back to the past to make sure we all caught what happened there. While Whiskey/Saunders was examining Echo after a particularly intimate engagement (meaning she was having a whole bunch of sex, so they need to make sure she’s ok down there), Echo flashes back to an engagement she had been on with Whiskey back in the day. During this flashback we saw the two of them about to make out. So just to be clear, she flashed to that while Whiskey/Saunders had her hands up Echo’s you know where. That happened.

Also, Sierra’s brief appearance in the premiere pre-wipe and hating Asians slayed us – hope no one showed her a mirror during her engagement. We were happy to see the beginning of the Boyd/Whiskey relationship we were teased with in Epitaph One – Courtney is all squees when it comes to them. Oh, and did we mention that Paul is Echo’s new handler, and that they are totally in cahoots! Echo is much more aware than she should be for an active, and she can remember the personalities that have been implanted in her. Paul is withholding this from Topher and the higher-ups (of course) and promises her to help find the real her – Caroline.

Oh and sidenote to Topher - try working on your sneaking around programming - she's failing on that front:

In the second episode we saw Echo go all sorts of crazy protective Mamma bear when Topher actually manipulates her physiology enough to induce breast feeding. While imprinted, Echo becomes connived that her “husband” is trying to have her killed (to be fair, a black van has been parked outside the house and he’s been acting all sorts of sketchy, so can you blame her?), so makes a run for it with the baby. Eventually they catch her and sedate her, and are able to wipe her. Unfortunately for Topher, the maternal instinct is fully intact and she punches him in the face post-wipe and makes a run for it. Again with the questionable security! So now Echo, only half aware of what she is doing, makes her way back to the baby and gets all creepy with a knife too close to comfort. The husband is able to talk her down somewhat, and the team arrives to wrap things up. Paul and an increasingly coherent Echo talk on a bench about how she can still feel all her imprints, and that it’s all real to her. Paul says that she doesn’t have to do this – they can tell Topher what is going on and then he can probably correct what is going on in her brain – do some deeper wipes or something. Medically speaking, yeah that would probably be wise, but I know Paul is supposed to be our Hero so we’ll see where this is going. Frankly, at times, he comes off as more of a villain to me, but maybe it’s just because I’m more attached to the Dollhouse team despite their moral and ethical discrepancies.

Also in this episode, Senator Alexis Denisof gets some info sent to him that seems to be really Dollhouse specific – almost as if it is coming from an inside source. Whiskey? Alpha? Also his wife weird me out. I would say that she’s an active, but they already pulled that with Novemeber. Speaking of Novemeber aka Mellie aka Madeline, she got summoned for her check-up which she had been avoiding. She’s looking pretty well off – fancy apartment, rich clothes, only a little dead inside. She ran into Paul, whom she only recognized from when she was released. We got a little more info on how she came to volunteer herself to the Dollhouse – Adelle tracked her down after her daughter had died and offered to free her of the pain, which is exactly how it worked out. As far as Madeline is concerned, everything went pretty spiffy, although she’s a little curious as to why she was released years early.

And that should just about catch us up on the Dollhouse front!

This post was brought to you by Season 1 Adelle and Topher, high as kites.