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chani ([personal profile] chani) wrote2009-05-15 06:04 pm
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A week of finales

What am I going to watch now that Dollhouse and Lost are over? There's still Ashes to ashes but brit series are very short and we're nearing towards the end...

I watched Dollhouse's finale on Saturday evening, before going to see Wolverine, and I haven't rewatched it yet so my review might be rather fuzzy. First off, I must say that I prefered episode 11. "Omega" didn't seem as well written, and there was something in the pace that didn't work, especially towards the end. Of course compared to Wolverine, the scenario was a masterpiece!

Things I liked:
 
- Paul and Adelle arguing.
- Paul and Boyd teaming up.
. The Whiskey sub-plot and how it gave an unexpected depth to Topher eventually.
- Victor, as usual. Enver is always stellar!
- Paul's "sacrifice" and how November turned out to be the princess he woke up. He saved the girl but didn't get her. Their last scene together was touching. I think it was a great way to end Paul's journey no matter if we get a second season or not..
-Alpha threatening Caroline's wedge with his gun instead of aiming at Echo.

Things that I didn't like:

- the Omega stuff even though the idea of the Frankestein's monster wanting a fiancée like him was a good revival of the story. Unfortunately it was rushed and the scenes in Alpha's lair, with poor Wendy, didn't work for me. Alpha's exit was quite convenient too. 

- the Caroline in Wendy/Omega scene and the line about Obama. I'm sorry but that was cheap and not Whedon quality.

- Alpha's criminal background and what it means in terms of nature vs nurture debate.

-Paul using the S word...or was it a wink at Buffy fans?  

- Paul saving Caroline's wedge. It was phoned and Echo shouldn't have needed him. The wedge thing was a good device to allow the princess to save herself as the little girl hoped so in the previous episode. I wish that Paul had saved Echo but that she had saved Caroline. 
 

[identity profile] frenchani.livejournal.com 2009-05-15 08:27 pm (UTC)(link)
But that's the point, precisely. They wiped all his memories out thanks to their technology, leaving him in a child state (not quite blank since dolls still know how to walk and talk), but they couldn't erase his personality, in other words, thye couldn't destroy what is the core of his identity, his very true nature or what Ballard would call his soul. Same with Caroline who keeps bleeding out in Echo.
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[personal profile] syderia 2009-05-15 08:41 pm (UTC)(link)
I'll admit that I get queasy when the term "soul" is mentioned in relation to a Joss Whedon soul. He's fond of throwing the term out with ever really saying what he means by that.

They wiped all his memories out thanks to their technology
I don't think they did. Everything we saw on the show points to the memories still being there, but behind a subconscious barrier (explaining the previous personalities surfacing in the episode when they were all high).
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[identity profile] frenchani.livejournal.com 2009-05-15 09:01 pm (UTC)(link)
You've got a point here, I had completely forgotten the episode in which they were high!