I don't think a show can succeed without advertising and I haven't seen any for Dollhouse this fall.

See, I don't think that's entirely fair.

You can blame lack of advertising for people not showing up Week 1 because they didn't know it was there/back. But you can't blame lack of advertising for people watching one week and then not coming back the next. And, personally, I think it's that fact (that, every week, the show loses some of its audience) more than just overall numbers that hurts the show's chances of survival.

Sady from Tiger Beatdown in Dollhouse: "Dear Joss Whedon, thank you for your interest in Feminism, but we cannot make any hiring decisions at this time."

On AD:

Alexis Denisof is on the show now. Hi, Alexis Denisof! Missed you! Here is a fun fact about Alexis Denisof: although he is from the States – I know this! I have Googled! – he has, for some reason, the most unconvincing American accent I have ever heard. Brit it up, Wesley! You know you want to!

One bit from that article:

But! Even after her mind is erased! She still wants her son baaaaaack! Because the Maternal Instinct has magical science-defying powers of undying devotion which are purely biological and not at all circumstantial or different from woman to woman, which is why all moms love their children in precisely the same way and there have never been any abusive, neglectful or indifferent mothers anywhere ever.

We've actually seen before that some emotions and experiences can bleed through to the actives even after they've been memory-wiped. And while yes, all people are individuals and bond to children or not in their own way, yadda yadda, in general maternal protective instinct has a pretty solid claim on being the strongest and most primal emotion/experience people go through. It routinely takes the self preservation instinct into an alley, beats it up, and takes its lunch money when the two come into conflict. This is why you hear about abused women who won't lift a finger to protect themselves sending husbands or boyfriends to the ICU with frying pan-shaped dents in their skulls or lit gasoline exfoliation once their kids are endangered. So it doesn't seem that much of a stretch that that would be the element of an imprint to successfully resist erasure.

Yeah, I thought that had some kind of logic.

What I couldn't buy was that with just her raging maternal instincts, she knew what house to go to. Especially given that she didn't immediately know how cars worked. What was that? Did she have a personality-bleed from the future?

Especially given that she didn't immediately know how cars worked. What was that?

yeah, that irritated me. She went from "go? please?" to figuring out how a car works immediately and going to the house. Could I at least get a flash of inspiration or knowledge?

I watched this episode while sleepy and have no memory of these things but have no desire to rewatch, much like what happened with the pop star episode.

This was actually one of the few episodes that I actually liked and didn't feel like I was watching out of loyalty. I'm a sucker for cute babies and mom-stories, but I also liked the fact that, for once, Echo wasn't having sex as part of her job.

Well, she was the guy's wife, so she might have.

It seemed pretty clear that he was creeped out by her and regretting ever having set up the assignment from very early on, so I'd be shocked if the sex ever happened.