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"Dollhouse" is closing its doors for good, but from the looks of things Joss Whedon's show is going down fighting.Friday's (Jan. 29) series finale is called "Epitaph Two: Return," and as the title implies, it takes place in the ruined world portrayed in "Epitaph One," the show's first-season closer (seen only on DVD). FOX describes the finale this way: "Picking up from the events depicted in 'Epitaph One' ... and set in the year 2020, Echo and her surviving Dollhouse crew attempt to restore order to a devastating future world before mankind is eliminated."
FOX has released three clips from the episode, which we present for your appetite-whetting pleasure. First up: Echo (Eliza Dushku) and Paul (Tahmoh Penikett) find Topher (Fran Kranz), who's gone very far around the bend with the realization of all he's done and is babbling about what he still has to do.
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Paul is calling Caroline "Echo", eh eh. Topher was allowed to get away from the group in the first place (if I followed that correctly)? That too seems unlikely. At least Topher was dressed differently... not a sweater vest and plaid shirt. Then Anthony and Sierra are at each other's throats? What has the world come to??? I would expect the two of them fighting side by side. It was interesting to see that mini-Caroline made a reappearance. One hour to go and I hope the finale is better than these previews seem to imply. We'll see. Otherwise rather than going out with a bang, they will be going out with a "Splat!"
In loving memory of Dollhouse.
There was a lot of ground that this episode had to cover in such a short period of time, but I am thankful that we had a few scenes of Echo Classic with the Wee Lil’ Echo Active (WLEA). I think, however, that the creators missed a great opportunity here to touch upon one particular issue related to Dollhouse’s persistent theme of identity.
Echo Classic and the WLEA only shared the same personality up to the point when Topher downloaded that identity onto a hard drive (the ‘Previously on Dollhouse’ segment showed that Echo Classic wasn’t sporting any gray locks at that time). The WLEA wasn’t privy to any of the experiences that Echo Classic had been through since then, so their personalities would have diverged to a certain degree since their experiences help define who they are. When that divergence occurs, they become different individuals. With the mass reversal of imprints, the separate Echo personality that developed in the young girl’s body also ceased to exist. Echo Classic didn’t want to lose the impact that the imprinting had on her as it had become part of what defined her—dolls Romeo and Kilo certainly felt the same way. As immoral as the imprinting tech was, one could argue that the personalities that resulted from such technology were still distinct identities—artificially created, perhaps, but still real.
I go into more details about my thoughts regarding this matter in my blog. If you want to read more, click on my username for the link.
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