I think those skills might have come from someone else, since Topher is demonstrably not the originator of the imprint technology (while he may be a virtuoso at the programming, it's possible he wouldn't be able to assemble the equipment from scratch). But it does seem unlikely that Alpha would have been imprinted with that skillset for a job beforehand, so he most likely had to steal a recording of someone to gain the necessary expertise.

Oh, and did no one point out the Firefly reference?

Crap. I remember thinking "Firefly!" about something while watching but now I don't remember what the something was.

Well, they had Doctor Saunders on a wedge, so I'm sure they had a lot of staff backed up. Alpha got his hands on the designer's imprint, most likely before his escape. Or perhaps there had been some glitches in the chair, but the designer had passed away or was unavailable, so they imprinted Alpha to fix it, and hence it was in collection of personalities.

Oh, and did no one point out the Firefly reference?

Crap. I remember thinking "Firefly!" about something while watching but now I don't remember what the something was.

When Ballard was up in the imprinting room, and said something like, "So this is where you steal their souls," and Topher said, "Yeah, then we put them in jars with our fireflies."

Ah, yes, it's all coming back to me.

I think those skills might have come from someone else, since Topher is demonstrably not the originator of the imprint technology (while he may be a virtuoso at the programming, it's possible he wouldn't be able to assemble the equipment from scratch). But it does seem unlikely that Alpha would have been imprinted with that skillset for a job beforehand, so he most likely had to steal a recording of someone to gain the necessary expertise.

yes, Alpha has gone beyond the original, and I don't think that it's a Topher imprint. Remember how Topher was surprised by the remote wipe of Taffy? If Alpha had a Topher imprint, Topher wouldn't have been surprised at the existence of a remote wipe.

They have said that Alpha is a genius. Maybe he just figured it out from first principles.

It's the middle of the night, and I've been wrestling with technical stuff for hours and hours (new blog/twitter stuff) and I guess sleep deprivation is making me do this:

I have to confess that every time anyone on Dollhouse mentions a wedge, I am immediately put in mind of Trivial Pursuit™

There. I said it.

Now maybe I should sleep.

have y'all seen this? WTF?! get the Kuzuis away from the Buffy franchise stat!!

Yeah, cause there aren't enough shallow fucking remakes around with mad product-placement potential. Pass. Make your *own* girly hero movie.