Maybe she volunteered for some sort of psych experiment to get extra money in college, and this is what happened :)
We use the latest in scientific technology and state-of-the-art weaponry and you, if I understand correctly, poke them with a sharp stick.
Dr. Walsh ,'Potential'
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Vortex - Mar 31, 2009 12:42:37 pm PDT #1104 of 5827
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
beth b - Mar 31, 2009 1:12:54 pm PDT #1105 of 5827
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
I can imagine the Dollhouse running at different levels -- If they can do a 'full' wipe and install, I can imagine that they can do an edit. Mellie is close to her real self, but with a trigger.
Anastasius - Mar 31, 2009 3:25:53 pm PDT #1106 of 5827
Anyone else cringe at that opening scene about the drug? That had to be one of the worst attempts at exposition on TV. NS345TZU attacks the blah in the something followed by a monologue about what drugs do. All they had to tell us was: "Very bad drug! Look, it's all neon and green!"
I would assume that for the most part only people so >desperate as to consider suicide a viable alternative >would take the Dollhouse's offer in the first place.
Most of the world still lives in grinding poverty, eats out of trashcans or breaks into houses to get some money for the next fix. If you offer them to take care of their families and a comfortable living in exchange for 5 years of their life I think you could wrap the line of volunteers around NY. Of course a lot them wouldn't be TV pretty.
brenda m - Mar 31, 2009 3:40:21 pm PDT #1107 of 5827
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
I would assume that for the most part only people so desperate as to consider suicide a viable alternative would take the Dollhouse's offer in the first place.
You'd probably be in the ballpark to consider it, yeah. But my own experience with depression tells me it's not so out there to think that there are a fair handful in circumstances where they might jump at the chance to "just not be me anymore." In the real world, that's not an option. In tv world, well, it's not a good option. But even so.
Strix - Mar 31, 2009 3:50:22 pm PDT #1108 of 5827
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Anyone else cringe at that opening scene about the drug? That had to be one of the worst attempts at exposition on TV. NS345TZU attacks the blah in the something followed by a monologue about what drugs do.
Heh. Yeah, I shouted at the TV at that point: "And it's made from ANTIFREEZE!"
le nubian - Mar 31, 2009 4:08:09 pm PDT #1109 of 5827
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Anyone else cringe at that opening scene about the drug?
Yes. That began my downhill spiral with the episode.
-t - Mar 31, 2009 4:53:03 pm PDT #1110 of 5827
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I liked that bit. But I am a known outlier for that sort of thing, I think.
not implanted with a personality, but that she has a fight-girl trigger.
This is what I was hoping was the case, but using her as the Doll guinea-pig for the drug made me think she was more typical Doll than that.
Liese S. - Apr 01, 2009 12:56:39 pm PDT #1111 of 5827
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
I didn't think we were supposed to extrapolate that all the flashbacks were real lives. I thought the point was that they were all remembering parts of all of their experiences. Former lives, being actives, neutral state, the whole bit.
I figured with the key, after Paul had asked Mellie to break in for him, he gave her a key to avoid having to do that in the future. I agree with some of the assessments about her character, and I definitely do have issues with how she's being presented, but they're still percolating.
Fay - Apr 01, 2009 3:15:54 pm PDT #1112 of 5827
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
Weirdly, I had a dream about Dollhouse last night.
And I've never seen the damn show, not even a second of it.
Kevin - Apr 03, 2009 3:06:52 am PDT #1113 of 5827
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
Love IGN's review of tonights episode. It has a photo of two of the Dolls, with "Shall our episodes be more consistent now?" underneath.