(11) Dollhouse 5

In this action-packed episode of Dollhouse, what I really liked was the development between Victor and Sierra. I know, there were so many other things that happened in the episode, but what can I say, I’m a sucker for romance. The whole shower spying was admittedly really creepy, and could serve as evidence for arguments that concern human rights and how the dolls don’t really have this, but I think the fact that Victor likes Sierra even if they aren’t really supposed to have “feelings” is really cute. When stuff like this happens, it gets pretty confusing to viewers, who are trying to figure out if actives really do have their own thoughts and emotions. Having their whole personality and memory wiped should mean that they aren’t able to think for themselves, but so many scenes and incidents show evidence that they do in fact have some sense of personal thought and feeling. When Echo remembers the whole “shoulder to the wheel” thing, when she still tries to save Sierra even with an imprint during an engagement, and when Victor gets all happy when he sees Sierra during shower time; these are all incidents that show that they retain information for some sort of human response to certain things.

Back to the whole idea of human rights violation with the actives, I feel like this moral argument could be easily backed up with many other scenes from this episode and the others, however I’m not sure if it really “represents” a real world issue in modern day society, other than the literal parallelism to violating human rights. I have a few other ideas as to proposals for the episode analysis, but I really want to go over them with Miss Chambers, and get some feedback from other people.