It has been clear for the last few episodes why Caroline\/Echo was so important, and it is nice to see that her specialness, and the notion that the use to which the technology was being put in the Dollhouse wasn\u2019t the\u00a0real purpose for which it was being developed, are now being brought to the fore. This degree of coherence isn\u2019t surprising, perhaps. I understand that the final episode (which will air in two weeks\u2019 time) is in one sense the idea that Joss Whedon started with. But perhaps it is a good recipe for future television shows: first figure out where you might go with an idea, and then back up and figure out how to tell the story so that there is an enjoyable balance between mystery and satisfaction for viewers over the course of a season, or two or three.<\/div>\n
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Being able to wipe minds and imprint them with new programming, to turn random people and even your enemies into soldiers who fight for you is a dream. And Boyd was certainly right in this episode: if such technology is ever developed it can\u2019t be uninvented, and it will be used.<\/p>\n
And thus we understand the importance of Caroline\/Echo, her ability to resist\u00a0imprinting and resurface as a person and remember, and eventually develop what could be called an immunity to it. On the one hand, that\u2019s precisely what those who wish to win a war fought with such technology will need, since sooner or later\u00a0your enemies will have it too and will use it against you, and you will need to be able to find a way of protecting yourself. On the other hand, you want to find a way of preventing your opponents from developing such an immunity \u2013 after all, it is no good imprinting an enemy to become an assassin, and finding that instead you\u2019ve just given an assassin\u2019s skills to someone who is still your enemy.<\/p>\n
And so Dollhouse\u00a0is bringing\u00a0us to an exciting finale, and did it in a way that let us explore the notion of the teachnology and more mundane uses for it, before leading us down the dark path that could eventually lead to the \u201cthought-pocalypse.\u201d<\/p>\n
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