Blog 4: playing with dolls

I just finished watching Dollhouse episode 1 from season 1.  I found this show very entertaining and easy to watch.  I thought the concept and idea that the show is based around is very interesting.  The main character in this show is Echo and she is a part of an elite organization that sends their operatives, like Echo, on sometimes very dangerous and risky missions.  This organization is known as the “Dollhouse” and has people, who are the operatives they send on missions, who have had their personalities erased living there like dolls.  The organization appears to make their money from billionaires and such that hire them to complete an objective of some kind.  Before one of the actives is sent on a mission, they are imprinted with a personality that is created to help them complete their objective.  The people working there seem to justify what they are doing as being good and that they are helping people.  I believe that the idea of the Dollhouse is wrong.  They have taken peoples lives away from them and make them live in a building controlled entirely by the organization.  It would appear that the ‘dolls’ are living perfect and stress free lives but they really can’t be happy because they have no knowledge of emotions at all.  The agent that is investigating the case concerning the Dollhouse says at one point in the episode that what they are doing is murder.  I agree that by taking away these peoples lives they might as well be tried for murder.