Saturday, March 14, 2009

Dollhouse - Recap & Review - True Believer

Dollhouse
True Believer

Original Air Date: Mar 13, 2009

Angelique – Associate Staff Writer
angelique@thetwocentscorp.com

A group of people who live at a compound come to a small town once every month to buy groceries. They always travel in a group to keep an eye on each other or to help each other in case trouble ensues. The outside world sees them a threat, a cult. A mechanic tries to provoke the members of the cult to a fight especially when he sees that they are buying duct tape. A Sheriff walks in and the group of people leave as fast as they can to avoid trouble.

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  1. A group of people who live at a compound come to a small town once every month to buy groceries. They always travel in a group to keep an eye on each other or to help each other in case trouble ensues. The outside world sees them a threat, a cult. A mechanic tries to provoke the members of the cult to a fight especially when he sees that they are buying duct tape. A Sheriff walks in and the group of people leave as fast as they can to avoid trouble.

    It’s hard to know what goes on in the cult since they are so closed and only true believers are allowed in but the words ‘save me’ written on the back of the grocery list give the authorities enough reason to try to get someone on the inside. They need a Doll... an ‘active’ who is a true believer who can also make the compound believe she believes.

    Echo is selected for the job and becomes a "camera" for the authorities. An operation is performed on her which takes away her vision temporarily, but allows her eyes to become cameras for the ATF. The ATF team will be able to see even if Echo can’t. Boyd is asked to liaise with ATF, while Echo is inside the cult. Echo is imprinted with the identity of Esther, a deeply religious woman who is blind.

    Esther hitchhiked to the cult to join after she has seen the leader in a dream, she claims that he is the one who guided her to them. The leader Jonas is skeptic, but after some tests he allows her to join. The ATF team can clearly see an arsenal of guns with the eye camera when Esther’s real reasons for joining the cult are questioned. Boyd tells Dominic that Echo will be at risk if ATF goes ahead with their mission as planned. However, Dominic doesn’t give him clearance to pull Echo out. He thinks Echo is trouble anyway.

    The ATF team screws up, they walk directly into a trip wire which sets of a surprising reaction from Jonas. Esther has no idea what’s going on when Jonas asks her if she brought them there and he slaps her up side the head. This causes the camera to break and restores her eyesight. "It's a miracle!"

    The people in the compound are scared to death, and most of them didn’t know about the guns. Jonas tries to explain why he has the guns. He tells his followers that he doesn’t want them to pick up weapons, instead he tells them to follow him. He tells all the members to gather in one room and when everyone is there he sets the building on fire in an attempt to sacrifice his followers. As the people pray, Esther sneaks up on Jonas and knocks him unconscious.

    She tells everyone to get outside, but she herself doesn’t make it to the door before Jonas wakes up. He threatens to shoot her down when an ‘ATF’ agent shoots him. As he takes off his gas mask, we see it is Dominic. He then says that the "trouble ends here" and hits Echo with the back of his gun and leaves her to die of smoke inhalation. Boyd is the one who gets her outside of the building just in time.

    Agent Ballard on his turn is still in search The Dollhouse... and Echo. All he has to go on is a picture and the name written on the back. Then, on the news, he sees her face in the footage from the compound. But, of course, he shows up too late to find her among the people who escaped from the compound.

    Is it just me or does it seem as if the ‘erasing’ of the memories is hurting her more. Or at least when you see her receive her treatment and she is moved down in the chair her reaction seems more ‘painful’ then it was during the first few episodes. It could be just me, maybe I am trying to see things which aren’t there. I don’t know.

    I like the show, I really do. I like the concept, the idea behind it. But still there is this unfamiliarity. Probably because the most important (usually the most lovable characters) have no personality. They play someone else each time, different traits, reactions and even different ways of body movement. I think that it makes it pretty difficult to make it a show for the big public. I personally think that the Joss Whedon fans will love it just like they loved every other show, but that it might be harder to catch the general public's attention

    I have been reading on different sources that the first 5 episodes where heavily influenced by Fox, but that from episode 6 and up the show becomes more and more of what Joss Whedon envisions it to be. I hope that it won’t be too late and that this show just needs a little more time to get the point across. But I heard that Agent Ballard and Echo come face to face in the next episode and I am surely looking forward to that.

    I am really curious when it comes to the future of this show but only time can tell. Do you share my opinion or do you have your own two cents to share with me on this topic, let me know I would love to hear it.

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