3 Ways The Dollhouse DVD Box Set Can Reprogram Your Brain

Dollhouse may be the most controversial thingJoss Whedonhas ever done . But the brain - slaves - for - hire show teems with ambitious ideas about what it mean to be human , which you only fully grok after multiple showing . Good thing there are DVDs !

The videodisc set , which came out on Tuesday , offers a few novel ways to wrap your judgement around the mysteries of the Dollhouse , that clandestine hole-and-corner resort hotel facility where beautiful people are programmed to become whatever rich clients need them to be for a sidereal day or so :

1 ) Watch the unaired pilot and finale back to back . The two episodes of the show that Fox did n’t require you to see fit together pretty neatly , amazingly enough . The unaired pilot contains as much storey development for Echo ( Eliza Dushku ) as the first six episodes of the steady series put together , and it also raises all the question you like someone would ask , about the ethical motive of turn hoi polloi into your personal robot slave . Watch Topher jest as he justify his life as the master judgement - blotter — and then check “ Epitaph One , ” the unaired finis , right afterwards . All of the questions raised in the original pilot program find their answers here . You learn that , yes , this all does terminate very badly . Topher ’s bluster has been supervene upon with cry inside one of the Dolls ’ coffins , and bosslady Adelle ’s sang froid has developed some serious cracks . Meanwhile , the pilot shows us Echo beginning to rediscover her selfhood and experiencing her first glimmers of memory . Watching those two episodes back to back make for a kind of Dollhouse movie , with a commencement and an end — yet it leaves you want the next stack .

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2 ) watch over a gang of the episode in a row , so they experience less episodic . One of the enceinte complaints about the first half - dozen episodes of the season is how aimless and “ fend - alone ” they feel , with the “ client of the calendar week ” and the “ this workweek , she ’s a Aqua-Lung instructor with a dark clandestine ” opinion . But when you watch a bunch of them in one go , it feels a peck good — you do see something of a onward motion from sequence to episode , with Echo showing her first sign of the zodiac of going beyond her computer programing in the “ hostage negotiator ” episode , travel along by the mysterious ex-husband - doll Alpha make his first move to push her to go further out of her parameters in the “ fore - hunting ” episode . And then Alpha goes further in the cant - robbery episode , giving Echo a remote mindwipe to judge and labour her further . It all leads up to the midpoint of the season , when everyone ’s passably much aware that Echo is no longer just the usual empty vessel for citizenry to pour their own desires into — she ’s becoming something more versatile , and maybe more dangerous . You see a bit more of a progression .

3 ) heed to Joss Whedon complain about studio apartment interference . The other great pleasure of the DVD is the commentary cut , where creator Joss Whedon talk about the creative appendage , and exactly how much Fox messed with his patronage . At one point during the first episode , “ Ghost , ” Whedon blab about the web sending him lots of “ distinction ” demanding more explanations for everything . After the installment was already stuffed to bursting with character standing around talking about rewrite brains and creating tangible personalities to put into the great unwashed ’s header , the net came back and want just a bit more spelling out of the show ’s premise . He also admits that he know nothing about how to do hostage negotiations , and if you follow Ellie Penn ’s techniques for dealing with surety - taker , you would probably get everyone killed . But sounds full , and that ’s the main matter . His comment racecourse for the sixth instalment , “ Man On The Street ” is even more revelatory , where he talks through the problem he had with the show , and the ways in which “ Man On The Street ” typify a turning point for the show , and how he wrote the whole thing in something like three day , all of his idea pelt out of him . And the “ Man On The Street ” comment is the deepest Joss has gone into discussing the wish - fulfillment and repugnance of the Dollhouse and what it represents to citizenry . “ We all have something that we would like Topher to slice up out of us , so much so that it paralyzes us in some cases . ”

Mostly , the videodisc are a hazard to flop on your couch and turn over back into the Dollhouse macrocosm in a big way , now that it ’s miraculously coming back . And mayhap , to realize quite what a unequaled , rich account this actually is , and how much it take the themes of wish - fulfillment and fantasy , and shows how they can lead down a dark path of wanting to wipe off other citizenry — and finally the intact world . They ’re in depot now , and well worth rent or buy so you’re able to rewrite your memory of this immensely underrated show .

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