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.
Well, at some point he mentioned something about Mellie's 'kill switch', meaning the way she could be activated at any time and kill him (as the message hidden within her imprint told him two episodes back). I think he even said something to that effect while standing over her pod.
Of course, I still think that's justification on his part. He doesn't know for a fact that Echo doesn't have some built-in killing subroutine or for that matter, whether it would stop her from trying to save her if it did.
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.
Oooh, I like those theories, very plausible. And Adelle totally *would*.
Adelle quite simply rocks. I can enjoy a good unapologetic villain, and have a soft spot for icy ruthless female characters.
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Well, at some point he mentioned something about Mellie's 'kill switch', meaning the way she could be activated at any time and kill him (as the message hidden within her imprint told him two episodes back). I think he even said something to that effect while standing over her pod.
Of course, I still think that's justification on his part. He doesn't know for a fact that Echo doesn't have some built-in killing subroutine or for that matter, whether it would stop her from trying to save her if it did.
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.
Oooh, I like those theories, very plausible. And Adelle totally *would*.
Adelle quite simply rocks. I can enjoy a good unapologetic villain, and have a soft spot for icy ruthless female characters.