Topher uncovers a spy, one character shoots another character, there is sword fight, someone gets "boxed," and the show gets all Kurosawa on your asses.
Man! So first I hear "Terminator: The Sarah Conner Chronicles" is gonna be canceled, and now I'm hearing the same for "Dollhouse." Bad day for the Friday time slot at FOX. Still, we must be brave and soldier on!
We open in Topher's brain erasing lab. Some crazy shizzle is going on and they sure don't want us to be able to see what it is. A group of people are trying to restrain someone in the brain erasing chair, someone who really doesn't want to be in the brain erasing chair. There are wires everywhere, sparks flying, lights flashing - do I smell a Frankenstein allusion? Or wait... hmm... maybe that's just me. I haven't showered yet.
Below the lab, in the lobby or whatever the main room of the dollhouse is called, our plucky heroine, Echo, and her very skinny friend Sierra passively notice the flashing lights and noises from Topher's lab. Sierra wonders what is happening. Echo says, "She made a mistake." Then -
BOOM! Blood gets splattered on the window. Oo, somebody got shot. I wonder who it was. I hope it was Mellie, aka November. I hate Mellie, aka November. Well, no time to ponder too long as we quickly cut to:
Twelve hour earlier! Or so the graphic says. It could be lying, but I choose to believe it. You can always trust graphics. At least that's how I like to live my life.
So exactly twelve hours ago Echo has just finished a gig. She's riding back to headquarters with Boyd in their van. Following the rule for when we join a Doll immediately prior/post a job, Echo is dressed as maximally goofy as possible. Why not? We don't actually need to see that storyline. This time she's dressed like this -
A dominatrix queen. She talks about the virtues of S&M, with good ol' Boyd humoring her like he always does. How does Boyd keep this job a secret from his friends? Everyone I know blathers endlessly about their job no matter how boring it is. How could anybody do something so interesting everyday and not talk about it? Maybe Boyd has no friends. That would be sad.
When Boyd and Echo arrive at the dollhouse parking garage, Ramirez is taking Victor out on a job. A reoccurring job apparently, to an older woman they call Miss Lonely Heart. Victor has an English accent (I think. It kinda comes and goes). Ramirez is for some reason super disgusted by Miss Lonely Heart and won't stop talking about her. Hmm. They made such a big deal out of this Miss Lonely Heart that I have to assume we're gonna see her later. Mental note.
Cut to Topher's brain erasing lab. Echo has just been wiped. Topher's Cute Asian intern or whatever her position is, is doing Topher's thing, saying the routine he usually says to Echo after she gets wiped. But she gets the words slightly wrong, and if Army of Darkness has taught us anything it is that you need to say all the words correctly. So Topher, who has been repairing his giant computer, pops out and is a dick to her. What a dick.
Speaking of dicks, then Dominic bursts in and bitches about Topher being behind schedule. Topher blames "Dr. Saunders' little drill" for the delay - referring to the previous ep which resulted in his computer getting shot. Dominic doesn't care and yells some more, then grabs Echo. Jeez, what an unpleasant work environment. They need more inspirational posters hanging around the joint to keep people's spirits up. Like a dude climbing a mountain and it just says, "Perseverance," or some puppies dressed up in people clothes sitting around a fake puppy office. Awww.
Dominic tells Echo to go see Dr. Saunders, then he chats with Ms DeWitt. Apparently some guy named Russell from headquarters has called her in, and she's not sure why. She's all down on herself, bein' all, I've been doing such a bad job. And then Dominic's all, Nah, you do a good job.
I don't know, I kinda think she's right. I mean, every Friday something goes horribly wrong and usually some people die. She's really terrible at her job. Well, she's gonna be gone for two days and now Dominic is in charge while she's away. Why do I see this going poorly for someone?
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Comments (2)
The DVD commitment was for 13 episodes. Originally this included the pilot and 12 other episodes. The pilot was never aired and won't make it into the DVD set because it was apparently chopped to bits to use elsewhere.
In order to fulfill the DVD committment, Fox paid for a new 13th episode. It was never intended to appear on TV and was for DVD-only.
That's probably the source of your no-season-finale rumor.
1 of 2 | Posted by jeffala | Posted on April 15, 2009 11:03 AM
Huh, I figured Ms. DeWitt's mistake was not taking Dominic's gun away or in any way restraining his hands.
I hope this show gets picked up for another season in only for these recaps (I'm loving them)!
Oh, and because it's a really good show.
Too bad FOX has made it it's mission to stomp out anything good or pure in the world. It's definitely getting canned.
2 of 2 | Posted by Poopfloats | Posted on April 15, 2009 4:50 PM