Dollhouse "Epitaph Two: Return" (1/29/2010, Spoilers)

THAT was a series finale!

This show will be sorely missed. Not much love for those that missed Epitaph One. You really, really need to see One for Two to make complete sense.

 

A more than satisfying ending to a show that was only sporadically satisfying over its 2-season run. It did get much better and I also find myself wishing there would be an Epitaph 3, 4, etc...

 

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Very good series finale.

Did anyone else get the feeling they were going for the same Terminator:scc affect with Ballard? The quick death and no time to acknowledge it until later. I only say that because these are really the only two times I can remember seeing that and Dushku didn't pull it off as well.

 

First of all, I love the show. I think this was probably the best way to end it.

But here are the problems for me.... okay, so they reset everyone back to normal. What is to stop from all the people who were broadcasting the "butcher signals" and "numbshow signals" from re-infecting everyone?

And I'm sorry, but taking out the group of numbshow's before the anti-butcher signal was set off was just a bloodbath waiting to happen. They had even made a comment before about all the butchers hanging around the building because it was a numbshow buffet. So they sent out twenty nulls with two guards? What?!?!

And wasn't Ballards imprint the one that was left from when they had to recreate him. Specifically the one where he lost his feelings for Echo/Caroline? So it wouldn't have been a romantic happily ever after.

I can't really buy into the happily ever after anyway, even if it had been a current imprint. The imprints aren't the same thing as the original people. It's just a construct of memories and behaviors. The new imprinted you just isn't the same person as the original. Just ask Clyde. If Clyde 2.0, which kept getting copied into new bodies, were the same person, he shouldn't have minded being stuck in the attic. Putting an imprint into a new person probably seems great to the new imprint (after all they have a sense of continuity with their original self, and they're the version that gets to stick around) but from the original's point of view it has to be horrible (after all, what happens to the original with his old worn out body when this new doppleganger takes over and shoves him out of the way?) So Echo isn't getting the real Ballard, just a really good imitation of him. Almost like having a really great memory of what he was like, and being able to guess what he would have said or done. But just memories, not a real person. I just don't see it being a fulfilling experience.

 

They did do a half-assed recap at the start.

 

I watched about 3 minutes of Epitaph Two and thought to myself "did I miss an episode?" Went online and found the unaired Epitaph One on Amazon VOD and watched it first. As others have mentioned, Two would have been confusing without seeing One.

I liked the episode. Only one complaint: ten years struggling to survive and no one looked like they aged any.

 

Well that's not completly true. Echo did have a few strands of gray hair.

 

I was generally happy. I agree you absolutely need to see E1 first to truly understand E2. I really wish we could have had more leading up to E1/2, but alas, one final BIH Fox.

On Fox25 in Boston, the very last few seconds got cutoff and went right to the Mutant Enemy logo. Was that the same everywhere?

 

I'm not sure whether it got cut off, or if it just ended too abruptly on purpose. If the latter, it was a nifty subtle dig at Fox!

 

Thought this was an awesome ending to the series. VERY satisfied.

 

one more nit: why did they need Mag and Zone? are we really to believe they didn't know the way back to the Dollhouse?

 

I thought Alpha's line about schizophrenia and the voices in his head was quite amusing. I don't remember the exact line but I did laugh aloud at that.

I also wondered what changed Alpha's tune and frankly where did he come from? Was he always there?

 

Wow, I thought it was laughable and terrible at the same time. I didn't see E1, but I can't imagine what would've been in it that would've made E2 any better.

Did they intentionally find an actress that was as unattractive and as irritating (and as bad an actor) as Chloe on 24?

Like others, I just don't see how the ending changed anything - the bad guys will revert back to... um, bad guys? Everyone else gets to live in what appears to be a wasteland?

Can't say I'm sorry to see this one end.