Dollhouse’s “anybody could be a doll” motif reached a new level this week with the suggestion that Adelle Dewitt, mistress of the institution that imprints hot young things with alternate personalities, may be a doll herself. What does it all mean? If the show lasts long enough, how far could the solipsism possibly go? Here are some options.
Everyone – or almost everyone – is a doll. The doctor, Topher, the handlers, etc. After all, the house is just one arm of a huge organization. Why wouldn’t the parent organization put dolls in charge of the Dollhouses, to make sure that they run correctly?
The dolls, much like the slayers at the end of Buffy Season Seven, will all suddenly become fully integrated super-beings, remembering all their pasts, retaining all their accumulated skills. In this sense, they’ll be like Duncan Idaho in the novel God Emperor Of Dune. Speaking of the Dune series, Read the rest of this entry »
My confidential source at Fox reveals that there are no longer any plans to film a holiday special in which Buffy The Vampire Slayer’s lovable but rakish anti-villain Spike shows up at the Dollhouse to teach Echo a lesson in taking the reins on one’s destiny.
Apparently, the original plan was for Spike to provide a key piece of insight to Echo, who would have recently escaped the dollhouse, but be unsure what to do next. At that point in the series, the newly self-aware Caroline/Echo will be asking herself a lot of questions, like “Who am I, really?” “Am I good or evil?” and “What is my purpose in life?”
Spike has already had to wrestle with all those questions and come out the other side a healthy being, so he was seen as the perfect catalyst to guide Echo through the changes. His appearance would also have been an experiment in viewer ratings: if he scored well, then Fox was to go ahead and fund the first season of the long-anticipated “Spike: The Hard Way.”
Apparently, though, Joss Whedon, creator of both franchises, decided that the appearance of the beloved platinum-haired vampire would be too much of a deus-ex-machina.
“Echo needs to get where she’s going on her own merits,” Whedon will say in a yet-to-be-released statement. “And Dollhouse, as a show, needs to do the same. “
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