Man On the Street (106)

[GateWorld]

DOLLHOUSE - SEASON ONE MAN ON THE STREET EPISODE NUMBER - 106 Agent Ballard comes face-to-face with Echo after identifying a regular Dollhouse client and interrupting them during an engagement. Victor's apparent attraction to Sierra sparks an investigation into her abuse. VISIT THE EPISODE GUIDE >

[Shipperahoy]

Good stuff. Ballard and Echo finally come face to face and we learn a bit more about the Dollhouse, i.e. there are many. I wasn't at all surprised by Mellie being a Doll. I think most of us saw that one coming.

Now we know there's someone on the inside. I'm leaning towards Amy Acker's character but that might be too easy. Let the games begin.

[ShadowMaat]

FINALLY! OMG!

So, did we TOTALLY CALL THAT OR WHAT??! Creepy Neighbor Girl IS AN ACTIVE!! I so rest my case! HA!

Still don't trust Assistant Agent Lee. She's my prime suspect for the hidden message embedded in Echo's "Give Ballard A Smackdown" persona... assuming that the "we have an agent on the inside so stop frakking things up" message was not, in fact, planned from the start.

What was supposed to be the big game-changer, though? The fact that there's more than one Dollhouse? 'Cos that didn't come as a bit surprise to me.

I did like the stuff with Sierra. Well, not what happened to her, obviously, but I'm relieved that it was her handler and not Victor (poor cute lil' puppy) that was responsible and I just LOVE LOVE LOVE the way the handler guy got HANDLED. HA! Take that, you creepy bat turd! Try and take advantage of a helpless girl? HA!! Great stuff. Well, awful, but nicely handled.

Umm... What else? I am now listening to Jonathan Coulton's "Blue Sunny Day" on loop until all trace of that gods damn Tiki Port jingle is erased from my brain. Gods above, I hate that jingle growing up and any fleeting squee at hearing a familiar restaurant name used on the show was erased by the jingle worming its way into my brain and laying eggs there. Ugh. But no, HAPPY VAMPIRE SUICIDE SONG, NOW. Yes. Much better than Tiki Port. And the brief mention still doesn't trump the time I saw an Entrain sticker on Oz's locker in Buffy.

Where was I? Oh yes! CREEPY NEIGHBOR GIRL! MWAHAHAHA! Actually I felt really sorry for her in this ep. She seemed much more normal this time around. Kinda reminded me of me a bit, actually, except that my hopeless impossible crushes never deigned to notice me, never mind actually SLEEP with me. And wow, none of 'em were nearly as hot as Tahmoh! LOL! I know she's an active and all and I know she's been as creepy as heck until now, but Ballard sleeping with her? Despite all his protestations I think she's got him pegged: he did it because of his convo with the Bouncy Rat Guy. He needed some way to prove he wasn't obsessing over Coraline Caroline and that he was connected with the real world and he proved it by screwing the Neighbor Girl. *sigh* Not that I think she cares much. Any nookie with Agent Hotness is good nookie, even if it's "I'm in denial" nookie. I'll be curious to see how this develops... and whether or not he'll really develop feelings for her. Somehow I think she's gonna wind up hurt, though. Poor creepy thing.

[KatG]

I'm finally excited by this show.

Originally, it was just an enjoyable show that I DVR'd and watched when I got to it, but they just ramped it up to a whole nother level.

Very good episode. The world of The Dollhouse was opened up, characters were fleshed out a bit and the excitement level was high.

[DigiFluid]

Loved this episode, 100x better than Echo in Waco last week.

[kharn the betrayer]

watching BSG's final episode before this might not have been the best thing I saw ''Romo'' and ''Helo'' and I got all sad because I had to remind myself that Dollhouse=/=BSG


any ways onto the episode

he plotline moved and in good ways especially the part where Ecco beats the crap out of Helo and proceeds to talk about the insider

coolest scene however was Boyd owning the rapist by punching him through the window/door I cheered when that happened and I couldn't help but laugh when creepy Neighbor killed him expecially since she was in way to sweet and innocent mode 2 seconds earlier

also liked the fact they started injecting more humor into the show and poor Victor getting blamed for that creepy perverts lust

[knowles2]

This program is slowly getting into its stride, do not know how many people actually had the patience to wait this long but let hope the TSCC and DH can drag each other ratings up from here on out, they both save there best episodes still last. Last week shows signs of a revival, buzz around the TSCC and Dollhouse is pretty good.

The the billionnair bloke was an interesting character trying to justified his actions, he want relive the same day each year, and how he justified his reasons. Interesting character I thought with him entertaining kids as his primary business. I actually had sympathy for the character, he finally achieve his goal in life and the looses the girl of his dreams. The point of this episode was very much about our fantasies and most of us will do anything to achieve them if we could.
The FBI neighbour is interest so a green flower is psycho mode, amber is weird neighbour mode, wonder what red mode is.
I hope our allies in the house is not anyone we got on our suspect list, someone unsuspecting, I voting for the lab assistance, I love it when she said she live to serve, anyone one else think she perhaps does not like what going down in the house, plus she one of the ones who add access to imprint, but the tech guy would great to see, imagine him when he show his true identity, he clicks his finger and dolls come to his rescue, be great to see.

So we know they have a greater plans than just being a pleasure and entertainment service (this will be the cause of there down full), I think the bloke at the end of news video was on to something, perhaps they planning to program everyone in the world into there dolls and the dolls house pleasure entertainment business is just the testing grounds to work out the bugs, but would we be humans afterwards. They consider Alpha as a near god or at least hinted at it, so I wonder if they plan to turn us all into tabla risas or into controllable Alphas.
Echo in combat mode was pretty good and the fight scene was awesome it was the type of stuff we should of had in the premier.

The whole rape storyline was them being hyprocritical but the set up was done well. How the controller was killed was well done but a bit to professional, any coroner will wonder how a untrained person could do that to a bloke. Also there a big fat reason of why.

I think we all guest that there were more houses in the world and them having twenty is a pretty substantial number .

[Amalthea]

Fantastic episode! I liked the injection of the reporter guy asking about the Dollhouse urban legend throughout the episode. They covered all the perspectives pretty well, I thought.

I loved that the neighbour girl wasn't just a normal doll. That whole sleeper agent thing was really neat. That opens a lot of doors.

Poor Sierra. I'm glad her handler got the crap beat out of him by neighbour girl. I love that his death was just an excuse to test out their sleeper agent. Well, and scare FBI guy, but yeah.

What's odd to me is the effort they're going to to toy with FBI guy. I mean, if he was really a threat to them, wouldn't it be more efficient to just bump him off rather than use all these dolls on him to confuse him? To me, I think that means the inside agent has to be pretty high up, otherwise the higher ups could just have him erased.

[knowles2]

Remember it been hinted that someone high up in the government has been protecting him from his FBI superiors, only when he was told to make it look like the doll house has won did he give in and got suspended which make me suspect that he made sure his friends did not intervene. This may be known by the doll house and so simply knocking him off may just bring the entire FBI down on them, considering they already attempted to take him out several times I am surprise the FBI has not already bought there full force down on the doll house but they got friends protecting them.

I suspect whoever infiltrated the house, is friend with his friends.

Through this could all be double bluff with the him being led by the doll house and the message was not from a informer but was an authorise message from the house to get him out of the FBI control and off there radar, easier to eliminate.

[huntress]

:nod nod: Always trust in Joss to deliver. Just have a little patience. NOW the story is truly getting somewhere. So did I get this right "creepy neighbour woman" is a sleeper doll? There is an insider working against the dollhouse organization? This was really good stuff and I loved the fighting

[Jill_Ion]

:nod nod: Always trust in Joss to deliver. Just have a little patience. NOW the story is truly getting somewhere. So did I get this right "creepy neighbour woman" is a sleeper doll? There is an insider working against the dollhouse organization? This was really good stuff and I loved the fighting

Yes, Mellie is a sleeper doll and there may be an insider working against the Dollhouse org. Could be, as said above, a psych-out to trick FBI guy.

knowles2 said

This program is slowly getting into its stride, do not know how many people actually had the patents to wait this long...

I assume you mean patience, but *raises hand* I am one who didn't have any problem with patience or desire to watch this show. Plus, it's only the sixth episode! LOL!

Joss hit this ep out of the park. Through the "man on the street" interviews, he addressed many of the issues with the "reality" of a Dollhouse actually existing, without giving answers or proclamations to justify its existence. I wouldn't want something like this to really exist - wicked creepy - but as a show basis, it's interesting.

Sierra's handler raping her was a topic that needed to be addressed within the show, as it's an obvious situation when there are malleable people and people in power. Although I don't condone vigilantism, I saw it more as "handling things internally." Seems to happen a lot in crime syndicates on TV.

Did love Boyd kicking the rapist guy's ass through the window. Boyd is very cool.

If there is an insider in the Dollhouse, my vote would be for Topher's assistant. Of course, this is Joss, and wouldn't that be obvious? Someone could've snuck in and messed with the template while Boyd and Topher were talking.

Frankly, I think Topher is going to turn out bad. There's something rather Warren (BTVS) about him that creeps me out. Maybe more like Knox (Angel). I dunno. He seems kinda sweet and cute and smart and that just never works out for the best on Joss shows.

I was cringing when Bad Handler went to kill Mellie. I was hoping she would turn out to be a Doll or a Dollhouse agent - something about her just made me think she was - and kick his butt, but during the attack, I was frightened for her.

Did Eliza look thinner in this episode or was it just me? Almost scary thin.

The rich Internet client guy should've creeped me out. I feel like I should've been repulsed by him and wanted him to fail, but dang it if the dialogue and the acting didn't make my sympathetic to him! *shakes tiny fist* Also, Echo was so perfect in her "horror" in the thought of her "husband" being involved in "porn." LOL!

Definitely the best ep so far.

[LoneStar1836]

This program is slowly getting into its stride, do not know how many people actually had the patience to wait this long but let hope the TSCC and DH can drag each other ratings up from here on out, they both save there best episodes still last. Last week shows signs of a revival, buzz around the TSCC and Dollhouse is pretty good.

Well DH went up against the first hour of the BSG series finale so I don't know how the ratings this week will be.

I watched DH and then watched the second showing of BSG because this one promised to be good and it didn't fail to deliver.

We are finally getting somewhere!

So we know they have a greater plans than just being a pleasure and entertainment service (this will be the cause of there down full), I think the bloke at the end of news video was on to something, perhaps they planning to program everyone in the world into there dolls and the dolls house pleasure entertainment business is just the testing grounds to work out the bugs, but would we be humans afterwards. They consider Alpha as a near god or at least hinted at it, so I wonder if they plan to turn us all into tabla risas or into controllable Alphas.

Well if governments are protecting the dollhouses, they obviously have something to gain from doing this or they think they do.

My guess...an army of spies/assassins/super soldiers. A not so original idea of course but that's gonna be my guess. Like what the secret organization within the Alliance government was doing in Firefly with River.

Frankly, I think Topher is going to turn out bad. There's something rather Warren (BTVS) about him that creeps me out. Maybe more like Knox (Angel). I dunno. He seems kinda sweet and cute and smart and that just never works out for the best on Joss shows.

I agree on all points.

I don't see Topher as a good guy or a possible good guy.

Also, Echo was so perfect in her "horror" in the thought of her "husband" being involved in "porn." LOL!

Definitely the best ep so far.

Agreed. And I loved that part.

Next week's ep looks good.

[huntress]

If there is an insider in the Dollhouse, my vote would be for Topher's assistant.

If that is truly the case then I am going to laugh my socks off, because that would mean that after NCIS Liza plays yet again a mole. LOL

I don't think it was either her nor Topher. Topher left the computer unattended for a while, so anyone could have walked in and done something to the upload.

[knowles2]

If that is truly the case then I am going to laugh my socks off, because that would mean that after NCIS Liza plays yet again a mole. LOL.

Some people just get type cast, once mole always a mole.

[Jill_Ion]

...Well if governments are protecting the dollhouses, they obviously have something to gain from doing this or they think they do.

My guess...an army of spies/assassins/super soldiers. A not so original idea of course but that's gonna be my guess. Like what the secret organization within the Alliance government was doing in Firefly with River.

It makes sense that the gov't could see a military/spy feature of the Dolls. Hmmm....think Echo will start chanting "Two by two. Hands of blue?"