The Definitive Dollhouse Post (With Pics)

Well maybe this is only gonna be Part One because my obsession with this show could still grow exponentially!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Okay, so has anyone seen Dollhouse? Short lived series on Fox for two 13-episode seasons? Maybe it would refresh your memory if I referred to it as JOSS WHEDON'S DOLLHOUSE????
Yes, that is what this post is about so if you're only on this blog to selfishly look for mention of your stupid name then you better just get out! Because this is all about DOLLHOUSE. Which is an amazing show. And one of the very best things about it is that a lot of people didn't like it (*cough cough* didn't get)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That makes anything better :) Here's your official SPOILER ALERT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Okay, now that my Spoiler Alert has probably killed your PC, Laptop or Smart Phone, lemme get into what will surely be a picture heavy post.

Here's the short list of why Dollhouse is awesome: (Relevant to my life)
1) It's a Joss Whedon project
2) It's got an amazing *AMAZING* Cast & Crew
3) The subject matter is both a huge mindfuck and yet SO REAL
4) A bunch of it is set in Tucson and it shows Tucson in Post-Apocalyptic PhotoShopped Goodness

So Where Should I Start??? Where CAN I Start?!?!?!?!?!!!!! 
I don't want to sound like a broken record but... well, there is just NO DENYING that if you're a Joss fan then you're going to seriously scorch your shorts!!! No at the end of season one I seriously went into Fan Girl Shell Shock. It was borderline dangerous how in love I was. Well if the end of season one was borderline then season two was downright UNSAFE. It has now roamed into Obsessed Fan Girl territory. I was waiting forever and ever for season 2 to come out (even though Josh and Erika told me just to download it, I really like getting DVDs and watching them) so it finally came out, and we waited until SpookFest was over to start it. It was really hard but we rationed it out over a few days so I didn't blow my load all at once. Instead, I blew my load over and over and over and over and over and over and over again!!!!!!!! So many times!!!! Okay, so you've either seen the show and seen all of this for yourself or you haven't seen the show, you didn't heed my spoiler warning and now you have no idea what's going on. But seriously... the cast speaks for itself.

FAITH!!!!!!!! BOOM. Star of the show, her name in the show is ECHO and ECHO is a FUCKING BADASS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This internet wallpaper makes Echo seem like the Ghost Whisperer but really Echo is a really super awesome totally raging bad ass powerhouse genius! I think Faith must be one of Echos many "identities". By the end of the show, Echo absolutely has grown into one of the best and strongest characters on TV. That's important to note, because the reason we humans like stuff is to see it grow! We don't want to watch a show about Faith being prostituted out to men for money, we want to see her fucking flip everything on it's shit, become the most powerful thing ever!!!! Which happens! So yeah! Happy!

But no matter what sect of Jossness you are a fan of, there is a character for you!!!!!!!!!!!!!

RIVER TAM, NERUO GENIUS!!!! (Her Dollhouse name is Bennett Halverson) Although Summer Glau doesn't really get to do any fancy choreography or super crazy fighting, her character is amazing and the geeky chemistry between her and Topher is freaking fantastic. Summer's smile kills me!!!

Need a checkup???? I'd definitely go to see Dr. Saunders!!!!!!!! Everyone needs a little Fred in their life!!!

Need a little excitement in your life??? I'd DEFINTELY GO SEE WHISKEY!!!! Everyone needs a little Fred in their life!!!!!

Watcher-Slayer relationship anyone?????

Okay I can't find a picture of it but they tooooootally hook up!!!!!!!!!! Yeah sure it's Echo playing him and he's all drugged but they TOTALLLLYYYYY hook up!!!!! I loved seeing Wesley and Faith back together, they had great chemistry!!!!!!!!! Alexis Denisof was an excellent addition to the cast, even though his character on Buffy/Angel was a little stuffy! He flips shit!

So do you wanna know when I really really really really really seriously seriously had a serious boner???
This guy:

 So of course we all LOVED Wash and we all cry when he dies in Serenity and I NEVER want to disrespect the memory of our beloved Hoban Washburne ... but ALPHA...fdairjr834 iridakaoifjafddddaljldjkalkjflkdj ummmmmm YEAH yes please I mean, please please !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He is SO FUCKING GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

First he plays it cool with his "Carrots":

Then he hooks up with Fred and Faith, which I am very mad that I cannot find a picture of!!!! Here's one of just Echo and Whiskey:

Then he gets all Beau Brummel (actually references him)!!!!!!!!

Alpha is a great character. Totally crazy, totally well written and beautifully acted by Alan Tudyk, I love this character: first you absolutely LOVE to hate him and then by the end you just totally love him. So great. Again, an excellent, well rounded character, just like Echo!!!

That, and a bunch of weird shit happens!!!! Here's another great internet mashup!!!!

Wait, I'm not done!!!! More recurring Joss peeps got work from this project!!!!!
Like, Felicia Day!!!!
I like Mag so much more than Penny!!!!

So there's some other people in the cast too, some folks from Battlestar, Olivia Williams and some unknowns like Fran Kranz... even Nick the IT Guy! He plays a Rossum IT Guy.

So beyond the awesome casting, I want to say that I really like this project. I obviously always like to support the "Underdog" and as most Joss projects are on the verge of being cancelled (due to low audience intelligence), I'm usually into them. I didn't watch Dollhouse on TV and if I had, I can tell you I probably wouldn't have been as into it as I was on DVD. Because the content of the show is really really super interesting, relevant and real. The content, without getting too too into it, is that these Dollhouses exist around the world and they are run by the Rossum Corporation and Rossum is, of course, evil. The Dollhouses exist as, as their name implies, the home (homebase) for all of these mind-control slaves that go to see different clients (usually a "Romantic" or sometimes a CSI-type excursion). I think the topic really turned a lot of people (especially women) off from the show, because as I said before, none of us really want to see Eliza Dushku literally and figuratively and metaphorically getting fucked for 26 episodes. Well I have a two part response to that:
A) To have character growth, they must grow from somewhere. Echo needed motivation to grow. Simple storytelling. Yes, it's a fine line to walk, bordering on the Misogyny Crisis (reference to Comics Journal article very dear to my heart) but... well that leads us to the second part:
B) Unlike Space Prostitutes (source of much controversy in the Firefly 'Verse)... MIND CONTROL SLAVES ARE ABSOLUTELY REAL and it's fucking scary and horrible and not fake and futuristic but something that has actually been happening and I think it took a lot of courage for Joss Whedon and his coworkers, cast, crew, writers, etc, to tackle this subject. I don't even understand how they got the show on the air at all, it's so creepy and horrible! I mean, I guess a lot of people don't believe in stuff that they hear about but I believe that Mind Control is a real thing and that it's being used as a tool against people around the world. So yeah. I'm pretty happy that there's a show about it and that what happens at the end of the show is that they fucking destroy the horrible companies and I guess the government, everything is all fucked up and they return everyone to their original state of mind and everything is awesome. So yeah. Happy ending. Also, lots of room for more episodes and comics and spin offs!!!!!

As you can imagine, writing this has taken up a good portion of my afternoon (absolutely NOT complaining!!! I'm loving this life!!!!) and I'm gonna go soon but I can't end this without saying something about Tucson and how scary, awesome and bizarre and cool it is that Tucson becomes NERUOPOLIS (The City of Minds, formerly TUCSON ARIZONA the HQ of Rossum Corp) !!!!
Seriously. This is from the show:

I know, right?!?!?!!!!!!!!!
They talk about Tucson ALL THE TIME!!!! IN fact, that's where Faith and River meet!!! Ooops, I mean Echo and Bennett!!!! They both attend... get this... Tucson Institute of Technology!!!! I wanna go to T.I.T.!!!!!! So awesome and creepy. You gotta see it. I gotta go eat lunch!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Love ya!
Cheers,
Smog

P.S. Thank you Joss :)

**Note: None of these pics are mine, I did no work to get these screen caps, I used all google image results and so thank you to all of you random picture loaders and collage makers, you guys are awesome. I think a lot of them came from fanpop. :)  **