What is choice? Can you choose not to choice? Did the Dolls know what they were choosing and choose anyway? Or like Echo, was the choice forced, and then the ability to choose further stripped from you?

I find the man on the street interviews echoing in my ears. No one chooses to do that willingly ...

Erin, what if they offered Mellie the choice? Would that be okay, or would she still have no right since she's not the original personality? I suppose you could ask the original personality if she preferred being Mellie forever instead, but she wouldn't know whether it was better. And Mellie doesn't know either.

she already had his key -- she was able to get into his apartment to get his medication to bring it to him at work

I thought she broke in for that.

I don't know, I can envision a scenario where someone (no Caroline, but perhaps one of the other now-Actives) has made so many wrong, bad decisions that they see Adelle's offer as a gift from heaven.

Not that it's right to do, even so, but I can see someone choosing it willingly.

I suppose you could ask the original personality if she preferred being Mellie forever instead, but she wouldn't know whether it was better. And Mellie doesn't know either.

Doesn't she? That was the big reveal of the last episode ... all of what they've done and been is still in them, somewhere. Mellie, in her neutral state, remembered being attacked as Mellie; Echo had "echoes" of Caroline; Victor remembered his real self, but Sierra remembered being abused in her "neutral" state.

It's not just a glitch, whatever the Dollhouse thinks. Everything's still in there.

I don't know, I can envision a scenario where someone (no Caroline, but perhaps one of the other now-Actives) has made so many wrong, bad decisions that they see Adelle's offer as a gift from heaven.

Although if you're not completely confident you would really be back in five years all the richer, it would be tantamount to suicide.

I thought she broke in for that.

Really? I don't remember that at all.

Huh.

And boy am I posty today!

"Mellie" doesn't exist. To offer "Mellie" that choice would be like me that making the choice for the body-owner. Same diff.

So, no, you can't offer "Mellie" that choice. She can't make it. And that's the thing -- no one knows where their choices will lead. That's what makes choice...hard. You have to decide based on the past and the present and make the future. If the future can be glimpsed, then it takes choice away, too.

it would be tantamount to suicide.

People do choose that.

It's not just a glitch, whatever the Dollhouse thinks. Everything's still in there.

Yeah, I think Topher's assertions that he knows what is happening when he wipes minds and installs new ones are waaaaay overconfident.

It's not just a glitch, whatever the Dollhouse thinks. Everything's still in there.

That's my take on it, too.