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Post by Matthew on May 1, 2009 20:50:36 GMT -5
Echo didn't ask you to come get him. Caroline did.
Oh, boy. epic matchup between two people who care greatly for Echo.
Poor Victor!
Kersmash! and that's what you get from thinking of yourself as the prince, Ballard.
Ouch! Got Man Friend in the throat!
And suddenly Kemper is a lot more competent on the computer system.
Manly fight between Daddy and Boyfriend archetypes.
Keeping all the rest of the dolls asleep.
And Echo remembers Boyd, and my heart swells to three times it normal size.
HAH! Risers.
And he IS Alpha. and Claire probably wets herself. God knows, I would.
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Post by Spaced Out Looney on May 1, 2009 20:51:00 GMT -5
Hospital. Sierra and doctor. I think I missed something.
Oh, this is the guy in teaser. And he's carved up like the Dolls were carved up by Alpha.
Ballard and Tudyk.
They told me this was going to be the new Eden. Eden wasn't a prison. Or was it?
Ballard masquerading as a Doll. Interesting.
Oh, Tudyk pretending to be a Doll.
Tasering Topher.
OK, this whole break in seems way too easy.
This is a bad place. Bad people maybe, good place.
Cells in a body. Functional and interchangeable.
Ballard realizes that Lubov is Victor... and the extent to which the Dollhouse has been fucking with him.
Ballard finds November, not Echo. There's Echo.
There's security!
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Post by Spaced Out Looney on May 1, 2009 20:56:06 GMT -5
Dude, Ballard is dumber than a bag of hammers. And a lousy fighter considering that is an FBI agent.
Echo flashes on her fight with Ballard. And it's not a positive reaction.
Now Sanders arrives.
Boyd and Ballard: fight, fight, fight.
Echo flashing on Boyd.
And Tudyk is Alpha. But most of us knew that already.
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Post by Matthew on May 1, 2009 20:59:58 GMT -5
and Tudyk brings a whole new level of supercreepy. And nobody else knows he's done it. Holy crap..
Alpha wants to know about his intake?
Way to ramp up the creepy, Alpha. "My whole body? Was I fine, healthy, intact?"
"We don't have time?"
"There's indignation enough for everyone to have seconds"
"Might be good for us both that I failed" she's gonna give him the tea.
Consensual slavery? perfectly fine. Involuntary slavery is a bigger issue. Sierra being the biggest example.
Claire finally calling for help? No. Sierra calling in.
"Stephen J. Kepler" helped build the dollhouse.
Alpha isn't in Tuscon"
What did he implant her with? This isn't Caroline?
Woohoo! murderous badguy escaping music!
So what personality is the Bonnie he implanted her with?
"Wedge" is that the name of the implants?
Okay, I'm so freaked out by the previews.
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Post by Spaced Out Looney on May 1, 2009 21:03:20 GMT -5
Alpha and Sanders.
This is freakin' creepy.
Ballard brought before Adelle.
Did you really think you could just walk into the Dollhouse when everyone knows that it doesn't exist?
Alpha and Sanders.
OK, creepy level just racheted up to eleventy.
Adelle and Ballard and Boyd.
Echo and Alpha.
I have no idea what's going on, but I'm intrigued.
Boyd and Adelle about whether to put Ballard in the chair.
Ah, Alpha's been imprinted with designer guy. Or that was part of the composite or whatever the hell is going on.
Alpha imprints Echo with some personality or other? A girlfriend? Maybe that of the guy he's imprinted with?
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Post by Lola m on May 1, 2009 21:09:48 GMT -5
So, if guy wasn't really a homeless dude, who was he? Snooping in the headquarter's garbage . . . . "They told me, this was gonna be the new Eden." (OK, that is a very telling statement!) "Eden wasn't a prison!" "Are you kidding? The apples were monitored!" Ha! (I really like this guy. ) Recirulate human sweat. Hmmm. Coming so close on her statement about what homeless people smell of, this line is probably striking me as being more important that it really is. OK, knowing what happened with Sierra before? It is extremely unnerving to see Ballard so very easily get this guy to come with him. And get him to take off his clothes. OMG, they're basically posing as Doll nad handler now. Oy! Oy! Zapping Topher?! OMG! "You can take down security from there, right?" "Yeaaah . . . I could if this guy wasn't a paranoid freak!" (Why, it's like he really knows Topher, isn't it? ) "This is a bad place." "Bad people, maybe. Good place." (God, this ep is just full of the most excellent lines!) Closed system. We're all just atoms in the big continuous universe and the best we can do is to try not to kill it from the inside. And his little buddy is getting suspicously more confident. Woops! Spoke too soon. ;D (Actually, I kind of know what he's talking about, with his fear of riser-less stairs. I mean, it doen't stop me from walking on them, but I do know that vibe. Although, for me, it's not so much a feeling that something will reach through and grab me, but a feeling I will put my foot right through.) Heeee! Oh, and now he realises that his Russian informant was also a Doll! Ballard. Not always the sharpest knife in the drawer! "My whole life isn't real." "It's a small world, right? I went to grade school with Jenna Elfman." (OMG! The funny! They're killing me with the funny in this ep! I mean, yes with the drama and suspense and all and then the funny peppering it all! This is why I love love love Joss!) I'm with Ballard on this - they're locked in their pods? Mellie!November - yes, she will kill you if they flip a switch. Ah, here is the very literal "sleeping beauty saved by Prince" moment. Which of course doesn't not work. Did Ballard really think it was all going this smoothly?
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Post by Spaced Out Looney on May 1, 2009 21:18:49 GMT -5
I'm sorry, but the actors who play Victor and Sierra are acting circles around Eliza Dushku and Alan Tudyk is blowing everyone else out of the water. I was really hoping to be really wowed by ED. On the plus side, Alan Tudyk!
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Post by Lola m on May 1, 2009 21:23:05 GMT -5
(I love the seemingly random camera shots here. The rocks under water. Sleeping/unconscious Topher. Where's his prince, eh?) This conversation between Boyd and Ballard? Very interesting! Caroline called me, asked for help. Are you her pimp? I keep her safe. You think you're helping her; you're wrong. You can't get her out. He's being given a chance - go out the way he came in. Oh, poor Victor! People should not come crashing into your pod! "I'm supposed to go swimming." Ah, and then she remembers her fight with him! (And this is where it is clear he doesn't know about the workings of things. He thinks he's talking to Caroline, doesn't realized this is a mind-wiped child-like proto-Caroline. With awesome remembered fighting skilz. ) I'm loving Tudyk with his muttering. "Alarms, disabled. Calling out? No. Calling in? No!" Awwww, Victor! "People were fighting on me!" "Stay asleep. Stay asleep." Ballard, dude. You have no idea that Caroline!Echo's glitchy memories of you are bad and of Boyd? Are good! Oh! Oh!! Arm thru the stair!!! Yes!! ;D Just like the rope mention!! "I trust you!" Oh!!! Yes!!!!! Yes!!!!! Scared nervous dorky Tudyk is Alpha!! And also, noooo noooo noooooo!! Cutting up Victor!!! OMG, my emotions are all over the place!! **flails**
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Post by Sue on May 1, 2009 21:29:30 GMT -5
Yikes! That's about as coherent as I can get. Yikes! Poor, poor, Viktor. It was fun re-"watching" the ep via Matthew and Liz and Lola. Season Finale? Really, already? Yikes.
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Post by Lola m on May 1, 2009 21:35:17 GMT -5
Oh, oh, scary!! Not the doctor, not again!! Scary Tudyk!! Scary Tudyk!! **hides behind hands* "Did you really think you could just walk into the Dollhouse, when everyone knows it doesn't exist?" **wants everyone to be fleeing now, please, because of scary Alpha** "We don't have time?" **eeps and hides behind hands again** Ballard, stop pontificating!! All of you guys, fleeeeeeeeee!! "There's indignation enough for everyone to have seconds." (Oh, Adelle, sometimes I think I love you the most of all.) Eeep! So, will they put Ballard in the chair or will they all get sliced up first?! Eeep! Echo!! Eeep!! What is the connection between Alpha and Echo?? "I remember everything about you." Oh!! Dead guy was Kepler!!! So, Alpha substituted his picture to fool Ballard!! "Alpha isn't it Tuscon." OMG!! Alpha/Echo lovin'?? Is this Caroline? Or did he load someone into her, or . .. . **completely flips out now that I've seen the previews for next week** HOLY FUCK! **falls over from the wowness of another amazing ep**
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Post by Lola m on May 1, 2009 21:39:26 GMT -5
EchoSusan bonding with Little Susan over their shared memories. So who set this up? And Paul is back at the scene of the crime. Or, well, the FBI building. and now he's sounding like a crazy man. Alan Tudyk built the place! And yep, they reimprinted Dominic onto Victor. Man, they just find cooler and cooler uses for this technology. They really do. Cooler and freakier and more awesome and creepier! Yeah, I really liked how he did Dom.
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Post by Lola m on May 1, 2009 21:41:11 GMT -5
Alpha. The Greek letter. "The Center" So it's a puzzle. "rope is always good" "We're here? So soon! " "You're the hard-nosed FBI agent and I'm the guy who hates Buddy Cop movies!" "I'm not good with that sentence, either!" Well, isn't she a special ray of sunshine. "Rush job" "Ten stories" Jesus catcrap! "Nurturing the tender throbbing hope that you'd give up!" Should have listened to the dude and brought the rope, Ballard. "Carrots" Reading the story over the top, Ballard's the prince. Ballard's the prince, or Boyd's the prince, or Alpha's the prince. Or Echo's the prince.
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Post by Lola m on May 1, 2009 21:43:55 GMT -5
More DominicVictor. Oh, Dominic was in contact with Alpha? You know, in all the excitement, I kinda forgot that extremely odd and interesting fact. Alpha was sending messages to several people. And why, is my question. Better safe than sorry, eh? Ballard is obsesso-man extraordinaire. And yeah, they all deserve that same consideration.
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Post by Matthew on May 1, 2009 21:43:59 GMT -5
Alpha. The Greek letter. "The Center" So it's a puzzle. "rope is always good" "We're here? So soon! " "You're the hard-nosed FBI agent and I'm the guy who hates Buddy Cop movies!" "I'm not good with that sentence, either!" Well, isn't she a special ray of sunshine. "Rush job" "Ten stories" Jesus catcrap! "Nurturing the tender throbbing hope that you'd give up!" Should have listened to the dude and brought the rope, Ballard. "Carrots" Reading the story over the top, Ballard's the prince. Ballard's the prince, or Boyd's the prince, or Alpha's the prince. Or Echo's the prince. It's a fine game of musical princes all around, isn't it?
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Post by Lola m on May 1, 2009 21:48:38 GMT -5
"Unsightly visibility" "I'm gonna die in pajamas" "This is a bad place" ya think? Kemper is not freaking Ballard out enough with his calm joy there, or his sudden newfound competence. Yeppers on the sudden newfound competence, indeed!! Horrible compound fracture as I hang there with one leg stuck thru is my icky imagined outcome. Dude! This!! I thought for sure when he was laying out all the pictures for FBI woman that he had put things together. Heh! I forgot that line. ;D OMG, me too! I mean, yes he is right that she might suddenly change and kill him, but oh. Oh! **nods**
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