who the hell uses an answering machine anymore, anyway?

Your secret sleeper agent, I guess.

nah, that was Paul's.

My parents.

I don't want to touch Sierra's story with a ten-foot pole, and the end creeped me out to no ends, what with the sweet tender music of "see? Isn't is a good thing we're doing? And then they'll have sex because he paid for it."

It's sad, people die, and it's sad, and horrific. Then they couple that with "well, I paid for it."

Except, on the other hand, if I am to buy into the "it's rape" when the dolls have sex, then the whole thing is rape. It's weird that it took this ep to come to that conclusion, what with the heart-string-pulling, but, if the sex is rape, so is love and enamourment that comes with it. Penetration of a body, penetration of a mind. It's all better now because I equate it with the wiping of the original mind, or it's worse because I equate the wiping of the mind with the physical act of sex (rape)?

Does Paul's relationship with Mellie now equal rape because it's not her original personality giving consent, even though Paul does not know that she doesn't have a choice? Is rape and it's definition not applicable and a new term is needed? Or no, because the act of power and control is being performed by Adelle?

Oh, it was Ballard's place, wasn't it.

who the hell uses an answering machine anymore, anyway?

t raises hand

My answering machine keeps me from having to talk to telemarketers.

I finally caught this weeks episode. Not much to add that hasn't been said. So I'll make a geek/tech observation. Did anyone see a reflection of cameraman in the kitchen in the beginning?

Um, can't Alpha be logically the inside guy? I mean, he can do all the techie-wowie "Sweet crunchie geekery, it cann BE DONE!" stuff. All the imprint stuff could probably be hacked into with the right skills, and it seems like Aplha has a vested interest in Echo. She's a sleeper agent who is asleep, but who seems to be about to wake up.

Also? Love that Mellie and Paul got together and was v. happy she kicked pervo's ass.

Interesting take on the Mellie/Paul sex. Technically, it's nonconsensual, since Mellie doesn't know it's happening. However, it's also nonconsensual for Paul, since he would presumably, given his whole crusade, not have sex with a Doll.

So sadly I come to the conclusion that neither Mellie or Paul were raped by the other; but the Dollhouse raped them both using each other's unknowing bodies.

Man the rape is convoluted on this show.

Did anyone else notice a similar gleam in Echo's & November's eyes when they were just about to kick some serious ass or am I reading too much into it?

I'm confused. Sierra's child abuse? Did I miss something? Or are we just talking about her rape as child abuse because of the way she couldn't consent?

And yeah, it's really weird the way the DH employees think it's rape if the active is in the house, but not rape if they're outside the house, even if in neither instance could they be considered to have legally consented.