Sarah Connor - To the Lighthouse; Dollhouse - Echoes

[butterfly]

Sarah Connor continues to be an utterly moving and well-made show. We lost Charlie in this episode, which makes me very sad for all involved. There wasn't really any chance that he and Sarah could work out with who she really is, but he was a good place for them, for a while.

Sarah dropping John off with Charlie so that she can go find out if she has breast cancer made me wibble. She knows that he's going to lose her and she... she's got a limited amount of trust and last week Derek just lost hers because of the Jesse thing. She trusts Charlie. And now Charlie's dead. Not a good place.

The John Henry stuff all moved really well -- him finding out from Savannah that you can change the rules and him accepting that... well, it's just what Weaver wants, a machine that will cross against the light, but it was a chilling moment, even before 'brother' took him over briefly.

Very tense. Wow, I hope this show gets renewed.

So, the most recent episode of Dollhouse was written by Fain and Craft, who I last knew as writers for Angel (they wrote "Shiny Happy People" - ha! There's some appropriate background). Anyway, I recalled them being memorably awesome and they did not disappoint. This was hilarious but while we were being amused, we also got a ton of characterization and background information.

Character movement: Mellie is moving back to the Dollhouse and out of her semi-permanent cover near Paul and it looks like we may be adding Sam as an Active.

Character discovery: Dominic feels like shit for trying to kill Echo, even if he'd never admit it with all his inhibitions in place. Considering that he was, until this point, the coldest and least sympathetic of the DH staff, we really needed to hear his stream of apologies in order to make him less completely hateable.

Adelle and Topher have a fuckload of chemistry when they're being silly and honest with each other (actually, everyone in the cast has serious chemistry sparking around).

Victor makes for a really hot NSA agent. That moment when he took out his badge and pwned Dom was awesome. I had to rewind and watch it (you can just see Dom going "... they made him outrank me?").

We got to meet Caroline as more than a movie and an interview -- we got to find out who Caroline was (is? may be again soon?) and she was a passionate activist. She was dedicated and focused and really all kinds of awesome.

Comments

[slippery-fish.livejournal.com]

Adele/Topher made me squee like mad. They were so adorable!

[killingfrost87.livejournal.com]

Dollhouse is love.


NSA Victor....is more love

[spookysen.livejournal.com]

I loved how Adelle was saying how British she was. :D

[spookysen.livejournal.com]

And dude, I'm curious as to why TSCC was called "To the Lighthouse" - was there an actual lighthouse that they went to? I had to read the book a few weeks ago.

[butterfly.livejournal.com]

There was, actually. The place where Charlie lived was by a lighthouse.

What's the book about?

[spookysen.livejournal.com]

It was like an elegy for Virginia Woolf's mother. Her mother had died when Woolf was around 13 or so, and so she grew up without her. Basically, it's about this rich family who have a vacation home in Scotland. The mother is very positive/optimistic, and tells her children that they will go to the lighthouse the next day, while the father wants to be honest above everything else. He is harsh and tells the children that it will be too stormy. The first day that takes place in the novel is about how the mother effects everyone a different way and how they all need and love her. She dies in her sleep, and for ten years the summer home decays with time and slowly falls apart. People decide to restore it, and then the family who have been kind of uncomfortable with each other since, have decided to go back and see the lighthouse. It's a pretty good book. Kind of stream-of-consciousness narrative, so a bit frustrating at times. But the themes behind it were really touching. Have you seen The Hours? Apparently that movie's based on another of Woolf's novels, Mrs. Dalloway. We read that one as well (and are watching the movie later in the semester). It was also good. You should read her if you haven't :)

[butterfly.livejournal.com]

Yes! That was really adorable.

[clari-clyde.livejournal.com]

So now we have two actives who have been exposed to Rossum and threatened it directly. But what about the other researchers? In this world of non-disclosure agreements, I’m cynical that those aren’t enough to keep Rossum satisfied and not paranoid.

And Caroline! I kinda knew she was one of those do-gooding people from the videotape Alpha sent but, I just loved seeing how awesome she was — dedicated, focused, smart and compassionate.

NSA? NSA!?! LOL, I love Topher.

[bastetseye.livejournal.com]

I think this is one of those episodes that I'm going to have to watch again, as my mind was focused on the funny, and not on what else was going on in elsewhere in the scenes.

But is does help my Dominic is the guy in the inside theory.

[kalleah.livejournal.com]

This was hilarious but while we were being amused, we also got a ton of characterization and background information.

That's exactly why I liked it. It was wonderfully funny, but it was dramatic and occasionally disturbing. Great up and down.

[boniblithe.livejournal.com]

I like how the worm was able to take over John Henry and remind us that even though he and maybe Cameron are able to evolve in their programming ... they are still programmed, and corruptable within the scope of their basic structure. All the talk about not being able to trust humans doesn't mean the machines are inherently trustable either.