Sad news today. None of you commented! Well, I'm pretty sure this is barely a blog that people look at, but I've gotten 190 views. Seriously, at least one of you should have commented. I am disapointed in my stalkers.
Anyway, that's totally not the reason that I'm posting. Thanks to nobody bothering to comment on this little contest-y thing that I had going, I had to resort to choosing my first victim without the input of others.So the first character I'm going to evaluate is Adelle DeWitt, from the TV show Dollhouse. Beware, there are SPOILERS (which I have marked, kina).
Now, I am going to assume that none of you have seen this show, since it was cancelled after only two years due to poor ratings. (Any show that's called Dollhouse isn't going to attract a lot of viewers, in my opinion, simply because anyone who hears the name immediatley thinks of the child's toy.) In this show, there are people, beyond all hope, who promise to lend their bodies to the Dollhouse for three years, with the promise of their troubles being eradicated for them. Adelle runs the Dollhouse, or at least the branch in LA. There are Dollhouses all over the world at this point. These Dollhouses get clients who pay a lot of money to have different "dolls" to play with. The minds of these people are wiped completely blank, although their original personalities are stored for safe keeping until the three years are up. When a client requests a doll, he or she has his or her brain scientifically reprogrammed to meet the clients demands, whether they want a detective to solve a kidnapping, a wife to be a husband to, or even a backup singer with the insane urge to act as a bodyguard for a famous singer, the client will get this. Basically, it's brainwashing. And no, it's not legal. At all.
Now, you'd assume that anyone who runs a brainwashing company must be pure evil, right? Well, you're wrong. She's not evil, and, towards the end of the series, she proves it in spades. She honestly believed that the Dollhouses were helping people. She cared deeply about the wellbeing of the dolls. And she also really cared for Topher Brink, the programmer. Their relationship is shown more in the season finales, when it's ten years into the future, Topher has gone completely insane, and Adelle is the only one who can communicate with him. It seems really sort of mother-son-ish at some points, and more relationshippy at others, but which one is which and should they be together and all that isn't really my point. Because, (*SPOILER ALERT*) he sacrifices his life for the good of humanity in the very last moments of the series. My point that I'm going to make today is NOT that she and Topher had a connection before the Epitaph episodes, as I had originally planned, as you can probably tell from the majority of this paragraph. My point is that she knew exactly what she was doing. Which seems like a dumb point, unless you actually watched the series. Because 90 percent of the time I was sitting in my bedroom thinking "Is she insane?!" or "How could she be so cruel?" So come, ride my train of thought. Be unusually confused until we come to an end.
In the first season you see DeWitt taking orders from those above her (and no, I'm not talking about God. If she took orders from God she'd be a nun or a teacher, not running what essentially is a prostitution ring.) You never really see any character development in her, except for the reveal that she is a very lonely person, so much so that she orders one of the dolls, Victor, to be her lover on various occasions. This costs thousands of dollars, so either she's really desperate or she has a really nice paycheck. Based on the series, I'd say both. My biggest point that she knows exactly what she's doing is in the episodes where she makes the concious decision to send Echo to "The Attic," which is supposed to ultimatley comatose (comatize?) the dolls forever. She makes this huge speech in the episode where she makes the decision. You ultimatley think that she is evil and crazy for siding with her boss over humanity and what is right. Then, at the end of the next episode, you hear that same speech again, only this time she bends down and whispers extra information in Echo's ear. I like the director's decision on that, to mislead you and give you a nice suprise. Because you ultimatley feel sorry for this lost and lonely soul. But she comes up with the plan to discover the ultimate head of the dollhouse, and because of that consious decision, in the penultimate episode (*SPOILER ALERT - AGAIN*) they take him down.
I'm not sure if that really proved anything, or if it was just me gushing about the fact that I love the way the directors and writers chose to mislead you like that, but that was the first of my evaluations, since not one of you 190 stalkers bothered to comment! (hurt look) Anyhow, feel free to comment now. Because it would kind of make my day.
I'll blog again soon!
Lot's of Love,
~M~
Anyway, that's totally not the reason that I'm posting. Thanks to nobody bothering to comment on this little contest-y thing that I had going, I had to resort to choosing my first victim without the input of others.So the first character I'm going to evaluate is Adelle DeWitt, from the TV show Dollhouse. Beware, there are SPOILERS (which I have marked, kina).
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| If you recognise this woman from "somewhere," you might be thinking of the Oscar-nominated (winning?) movie, An Education. Her name is Olivia Williams. |
Now, I am going to assume that none of you have seen this show, since it was cancelled after only two years due to poor ratings. (Any show that's called Dollhouse isn't going to attract a lot of viewers, in my opinion, simply because anyone who hears the name immediatley thinks of the child's toy.) In this show, there are people, beyond all hope, who promise to lend their bodies to the Dollhouse for three years, with the promise of their troubles being eradicated for them. Adelle runs the Dollhouse, or at least the branch in LA. There are Dollhouses all over the world at this point. These Dollhouses get clients who pay a lot of money to have different "dolls" to play with. The minds of these people are wiped completely blank, although their original personalities are stored for safe keeping until the three years are up. When a client requests a doll, he or she has his or her brain scientifically reprogrammed to meet the clients demands, whether they want a detective to solve a kidnapping, a wife to be a husband to, or even a backup singer with the insane urge to act as a bodyguard for a famous singer, the client will get this. Basically, it's brainwashing. And no, it's not legal. At all.
Now, you'd assume that anyone who runs a brainwashing company must be pure evil, right? Well, you're wrong. She's not evil, and, towards the end of the series, she proves it in spades. She honestly believed that the Dollhouses were helping people. She cared deeply about the wellbeing of the dolls. And she also really cared for Topher Brink, the programmer. Their relationship is shown more in the season finales, when it's ten years into the future, Topher has gone completely insane, and Adelle is the only one who can communicate with him. It seems really sort of mother-son-ish at some points, and more relationshippy at others, but which one is which and should they be together and all that isn't really my point. Because, (*SPOILER ALERT*) he sacrifices his life for the good of humanity in the very last moments of the series. My point that I'm going to make today is NOT that she and Topher had a connection before the Epitaph episodes, as I had originally planned, as you can probably tell from the majority of this paragraph. My point is that she knew exactly what she was doing. Which seems like a dumb point, unless you actually watched the series. Because 90 percent of the time I was sitting in my bedroom thinking "Is she insane?!" or "How could she be so cruel?" So come, ride my train of thought. Be unusually confused until we come to an end.
In the first season you see DeWitt taking orders from those above her (and no, I'm not talking about God. If she took orders from God she'd be a nun or a teacher, not running what essentially is a prostitution ring.) You never really see any character development in her, except for the reveal that she is a very lonely person, so much so that she orders one of the dolls, Victor, to be her lover on various occasions. This costs thousands of dollars, so either she's really desperate or she has a really nice paycheck. Based on the series, I'd say both. My biggest point that she knows exactly what she's doing is in the episodes where she makes the concious decision to send Echo to "The Attic," which is supposed to ultimatley comatose (comatize?) the dolls forever. She makes this huge speech in the episode where she makes the decision. You ultimatley think that she is evil and crazy for siding with her boss over humanity and what is right. Then, at the end of the next episode, you hear that same speech again, only this time she bends down and whispers extra information in Echo's ear. I like the director's decision on that, to mislead you and give you a nice suprise. Because you ultimatley feel sorry for this lost and lonely soul. But she comes up with the plan to discover the ultimate head of the dollhouse, and because of that consious decision, in the penultimate episode (*SPOILER ALERT - AGAIN*) they take him down.
I'm not sure if that really proved anything, or if it was just me gushing about the fact that I love the way the directors and writers chose to mislead you like that, but that was the first of my evaluations, since not one of you 190 stalkers bothered to comment! (hurt look) Anyhow, feel free to comment now. Because it would kind of make my day.
I'll blog again soon!
Lot's of Love,
~M~
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