In this episode, Echo’s memory wipe stimulates thought in viewers because a conspiracy against the Dollhouse could lead to a lot of other things. Speculation in the episode brings up Alpha and how he could possibly be alive and doing all these remote wipes on the Actives. This sheds some light on the whole back story about Alpha and other things, so even though the episode itself wasn’t all that interesting (to me at least), it builds up the anticipation for the possible revelation of Alpha in the upcoming episodes. He obviously has some beef with Echo or at least we see that what he wants has something to do with her since he chose to meddle particularly with her and her mission. Sierra ends up sort of replacing Echo in her mission, but not after a lot of prodding and pushing. They program Echo’s thief personality into Sierra so that she can continue carrying out the plan.
I’m starting to get a little finicky trying to pinpoint an episode that I really want to go over for my paper. Again, I don’t think that this one is the right one for me but I’m not really considering watching anything else because this concept has really stuck out to me and I feel like a lot of valuable arguments can be made, just based on the whole plot of the series. This episode didn’t have much obvious evidence of feminism, or at least not as much as the past ones, and that is kind of what I was leaning towards in terms of my main argument for the paper. Guess I’ll just have to watch a few more of these over the weekend!
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