Doll House: The Awakening

I just can’t decide what to think about Dollhouse. There are parts of it that I find very interesting and I am beginning to become more interested in the back story of each of the characters. The idea that Echo willingly agreed to become a doll makes everyone who works in the dollhouse seem a little less depraved allowing me to begin to like some of the a little, though I still don’t trust them.

This episode of dollhouse saw 5 of the dolls waking up with their original personalities but none of their memories.  I was a little disappointed to find out why but this didn’t last long because it never felt like it was going to change the show, but in a way it did because understanding why they were at the dollhouse helped considerably. That Echo wants to help people is of course an interesting reason for her to be a main character but it was one of the least interesting.

Victor is in love, which we already knew but it was still good to see them keep that thread going but it’s really the other two women who grew a lot in this episode. Sierra, so it seems, is the only one of the main cast dolls who didn’t enter the dollhouse willingly. Instead she turned down a propesition from a man who then kidnapped her and sold her into slavery in the dollhouse. We don’t know how much the dollhouse knows about this only that it was effort for him and with other bad things that have happened to her I really want to see things go well for her.

Finally there is November, or Mellie who appears to have joined the dollhouse because she lost a child. It’s very hard to feel truly bad about the dollhouse in this case. She is generally happy now something that likly wouldn’t be true otherwise.

All I really know about this episode is that it made the entire concept of the Dollhouse and the show itself a bit more complicated which is a good thing because while black and white can work in the right show on dollhouse it simply felt like everything and everyone was corrupt except the completely helpless people and that just isn’t much fun to watch for very long.

So all in all Dollhouse isn’t nearly as close to getting removed from my DRV as it was but I’m still not convinced.