Can you please explain Ballard's reasoning on Caroline >>>>>>> Mellie in terms of who to save/why he couldn't try to save both of them? My biggest issue with Ballard right now is his apparent inability to see that Mellie/November is just as much of a victim as Caroline/Echo, and it actively skeeves me out that he's prioritizing the doll he doesn't even really know over the one with whom he's had an actual relationship. So if you could make sense of his decision-making there, I'd really appreciate it.
I missed Dominic calling Dr. Saunders "Whiskey" too until someone else on my flist pointed it out. I'm now convinced that Dominic was her handler before Alpha broke out. I think Dominic got promoted when the prior head of security was (probably) killed by Alpha in the breakout, and I think Whiskey was imprinted with Dr. Saunders' personality (wholesale, the way Adele did with her friend Margaret in the previous week's episode) because Saunders was also (probably) killed by Alpha in the attack. The only other option would have been to send Whiskey to the attic (since they couldn't use her on assignments any more due to the disfigurement), but if the real Saunders was killed, I could easily imagine Adele being expedient like that: imprint her personality on a doll which (a) prevents basically trashing the doll, and, (b) prevents the need to bring another new person into the Dollhouse fold in order to serve as medical officer.
ITA about being so relieved that Sierra is on assignment for all this.
I also really love Adele. I love that she believes in what she's doing even as she acknowledges that it's problematic. And I love how *ruthless* she can be. Her handling of Dominic at the end of "Spy in the House of Love" sent chills down my spine.
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I missed Dominic calling Dr. Saunders "Whiskey" too until someone else on my flist pointed it out. I'm now convinced that Dominic was her handler before Alpha broke out. I think Dominic got promoted when the prior head of security was (probably) killed by Alpha in the breakout, and I think Whiskey was imprinted with Dr. Saunders' personality (wholesale, the way Adele did with her friend Margaret in the previous week's episode) because Saunders was also (probably) killed by Alpha in the attack. The only other option would have been to send Whiskey to the attic (since they couldn't use her on assignments any more due to the disfigurement), but if the real Saunders was killed, I could easily imagine Adele being expedient like that: imprint her personality on a doll which (a) prevents basically trashing the doll, and, (b) prevents the need to bring another new person into the Dollhouse fold in order to serve as medical officer.
ITA about being so relieved that Sierra is on assignment for all this.
I also really love Adele. I love that she believes in what she's doing even as she acknowledges that it's problematic. And I love how *ruthless* she can be. Her handling of Dominic at the end of "Spy in the House of Love" sent chills down my spine.