--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <no_re...@...> wrote: > > Even if the critics don't like "Dollhouse," > I do. Especially now that we're getting to > know Sierra, one of the other dolls. >
******** The critics don't like this show because it's well, psychopathic. The story line is that some guys operate a team of robotized hos rented out to wealthy quasi- or full-fledged psychopaths for large sums of money, the girls being programmed to fulfill the client guys' fantasies. After servicing the clients, the girls are hooked up to a machine that purges their memories and installs a new personality. I've seen a lot of TV, but this is a concept so vile that I doubt that viewing for another 50 years will see anything more vile, despite the attempt to cover the real appeal of the show to macho psychopathy by giving some time to Eliza's incipient awareness: "Eliza Dushku plays a young woman called Echo, a member of a group of people known as "Actives" or "Dolls". The Dolls have had their personalities wiped clean so they can be imprinted with any number of new personas, including memory, muscle memory, skills, and language, for different assignments (referred to as engagements). The new persona is not an original creation, however, but an amalgam of different, existing personalities. The end result incorporates some of the flaws, not just the strengths, of the people used as templates. The Actives are then hired out for particular jobs crimes, fantasies, and the occasional good deed. On engagements, Actives are monitored internally (and remotely) by Handlers. In between tasks, they are mind-wiped into a child-like state and live in a futuristic dormitory/laboratory, a hidden facility nicknamed "The Dollhouse". The story follows Echo, who begins, in her mind-wiped state, to become self-aware.[3][4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollhouse_(TV_series)
