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J'ai dans les bottes des montagnes de questions...
...où subsiste encore to echo. Où subsiste encore to écho.
So that was a huge defeat but England deserved that victory, they were obviously better and faster than us; our team was just the shadow of a rugby team, hopeless and broken. At least we scored one try.
Not a good weekend for France, after Alain Bashung died yesterday. La nuit je mens is a song I love because of its lyrics and because Tom did a cover of it.
So speaking of echoes, here's a few thoughts about Dollhouse, I promised earlier.
Who were the true believers of the title? The dolls? The followers of the fanatical cult? Adele Dewitt? Paul Ballard? Echo was made blind so they could see through her eyes and she wouldn't see the evil in front of her. Basically she was still in a doll state while being Esther, protected from the tainted world.
Again there was some stuff that I found quite disappointing, like the obvious parallel between the sect's ideal of purity (the garden), the bliss followers were experiencing, and Adele's speech about the Dollhouse, and how purity must be preserved in there–and therefore erections were to be banned! Also I wasn't convinced by the cult plot (looked like an excuse of a plot) and how Esther/Echo suddenly challenged the guru and saved the day...I mean, I understand the idea that seeing evil would somehow break the "doll spell" and triggered Caroline's personality but something was off with Eliza's acting again, and the whole thing seemed botched up. And there was Boyd saving Echo in the end. Well,the scene and the shot were everything but original.
However I liked the Genesis analogy and the idea of "the snake in the garden". I enjoyed the fact that Viktor was attracted to Sierra. I really like Sierra by the way. I find her much more intriguing than Echo. I also liked that the twist of the ATF guy writing the "Save me" message, faking a cry for help. It seems to me a nice parallel to Alpha sending messages to Paul Ballard to make him save Caroline/Echo. Makes you wonder who Alpha really is now...
And there's still Paul's neigbour whom he has accepted, in a way, just like Esther was accepted in the cult. She's trying to sneak into his life (I can't remember her name, Mellie?), she cooks for him but doesn't get the same man reaction Sierra got from Viktor! Paul turns a blind eye. Flirting isn't his forte, either when he's the one trying to charm or the one being crushed on.
Paul hungers for knowledge, he craves info and it's Alpha who gave him the metaphorical apple, so he can only sees Caroline now.
And there's the Security guy trying to get rid of Echo. Does he follow his own agenda or does he work for someone else? Is he a true believer who wants to protect the Dollhouse from a possible snake? I suppose that his hitting her was a way to point out the parallel with the guru. Will he try to burn the doll house as well?
So that was a huge defeat but England deserved that victory, they were obviously better and faster than us; our team was just the shadow of a rugby team, hopeless and broken. At least we scored one try.
Not a good weekend for France, after Alain Bashung died yesterday. La nuit je mens is a song I love because of its lyrics and because Tom did a cover of it.
So speaking of echoes, here's a few thoughts about Dollhouse, I promised earlier.
Who were the true believers of the title? The dolls? The followers of the fanatical cult? Adele Dewitt? Paul Ballard? Echo was made blind so they could see through her eyes and she wouldn't see the evil in front of her. Basically she was still in a doll state while being Esther, protected from the tainted world.
Again there was some stuff that I found quite disappointing, like the obvious parallel between the sect's ideal of purity (the garden), the bliss followers were experiencing, and Adele's speech about the Dollhouse, and how purity must be preserved in there–and therefore erections were to be banned! Also I wasn't convinced by the cult plot (looked like an excuse of a plot) and how Esther/Echo suddenly challenged the guru and saved the day...I mean, I understand the idea that seeing evil would somehow break the "doll spell" and triggered Caroline's personality but something was off with Eliza's acting again, and the whole thing seemed botched up. And there was Boyd saving Echo in the end. Well,the scene and the shot were everything but original.
However I liked the Genesis analogy and the idea of "the snake in the garden". I enjoyed the fact that Viktor was attracted to Sierra. I really like Sierra by the way. I find her much more intriguing than Echo. I also liked that the twist of the ATF guy writing the "Save me" message, faking a cry for help. It seems to me a nice parallel to Alpha sending messages to Paul Ballard to make him save Caroline/Echo. Makes you wonder who Alpha really is now...
And there's still Paul's neigbour whom he has accepted, in a way, just like Esther was accepted in the cult. She's trying to sneak into his life (I can't remember her name, Mellie?), she cooks for him but doesn't get the same man reaction Sierra got from Viktor! Paul turns a blind eye. Flirting isn't his forte, either when he's the one trying to charm or the one being crushed on.
Paul hungers for knowledge, he craves info and it's Alpha who gave him the metaphorical apple, so he can only sees Caroline now.
And there's the Security guy trying to get rid of Echo. Does he follow his own agenda or does he work for someone else? Is he a true believer who wants to protect the Dollhouse from a possible snake? I suppose that his hitting her was a way to point out the parallel with the guru. Will he try to burn the doll house as well?
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Gah, lj just ate my comment.
I'll try and reconstruct as best as I can:
I've seen lots of discussion elsewhere that Esther saving the day didn't fit in with her character and must have been Caroline bleeding through the imprint. I think that we do see quite a bit of Esther that makes the change believable: she's independent and resourceful as she hitch-hikes across country to meet Sparrow (or so she thinks). I can also buy that she sees herself as fulfilling a purpose when she saves everyone: it fits right into her belief system: she was made blind, she got the vision of Sparrow, she met him, she became seeing again all for a reason.
Her choice of words (God says move your ass) might have been Caroline though. We do learn that she has a potty mouth.
As to Boyd saving Echo: I guess it's the first time that he actually does that. In the other episodes she saved herself, but he was there to pick her up right afterwards. There's so much more to him anyway - his ruthlessness sometimes scares me.
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I know that, in theory, Esther's behaviour and her personality suddenly showing Caroline should work, but it didn't work for me on screen. Esther's change of mind towards Sparrow, that got her being hit and thus seeing again, happened too fast or something. I couldn't believe in what I saw.
You're right about Boyd, it's the first time he crossed the line, what I meant it that the scene was a cliché, seen over and over in so many films and tv shows.
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Yep, Boyd carrying Echo was rather clichéd - and I was a bit distracted by her shoes, but it was a nice bit for the media to film while interviewing ATF guy...
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Me too!!! *g*