Be Excellent To Each Other

They are using the 'anyone can be a sleeper/anyone's personality can be in anyone else' thing to get away with anything. They resorted to the kind of cheap tricks that T:SCC did and when that got cancelled I was fairly okay with it as they'd painted themselves into such a corner with all the timelines, that I stopped caring altogether.

If the best they can do is go 'person X is actually a baddie' then I'm really not too bothered that it's ending.

With the waiting for the big reveal i thought .... its got to be someone we know , but Boyd wasnt on the list.
I also thought when he was shot and left that he must die because thats why Whiskey is left in the dollhouse in Epitah one - she didnt have anything else to live for.
And the shooting in the head - wow !
Right now all i can think is that Boyd *knows* someone else has the tech and is doing more with it and echo and everything else is a setup to try and stop the end of the world scenareo ?
Or else he's the big bad and i've just not spotted it :-)

All of the work that was put into Echo's character and then it turns out her imprint denial system is GENETIC. Bah.
Mellie's suicide was cheap and pointless. Unless she's looked at like a casualty of war, I suppose. But I reckon Ballard will be hefting a huge amount of guilt around for the rest of his life
The end was *awful*. I liked the way they used Doll!Boyd's trust to blow up the mainframe, but what large corporation doesn't have offsite backups, ffs?
The brief 'ten years later' was, IMHO, just there to let people know there's still another episode to come and for no other reason

It didn't work. They all thought that they'd blown up the mainframe and got away free, but in actual fact they were all imprinted to think they'd done it and then turned loose. Note how Echo was fleeing the building, hot on the heels of an explosion, then was just stood outside. The building was panned over afterwards, and was totally unscratched.

good lord, they're all in the attic!

I wonder if Joss actually had this in mind and was going to slowly build up to this or if it was all just a rush job , the final episode seemed really rushed and had lots of things that stood out as just wrong (at least to me).

Echo being immune because of who she was , what about all the other dolls who exhibited behaviour that went back to previous imprints ?

Topher planning and setting up a note for Victor and Sierra seemed out of character for him.
Boyd asking DeWitt to say the words when they already had it on file (and then used them - very clumsy)

If there was going to be more then I'm sure you could have had backup Boyds and things could have kept going but as a last 'story' episode it just seemed to fly by with no planning (lets go blow up a computer somewhere).

Actually i like DavPaz's idea - these last few episodes have not happened and Echo / Victor / Sierra are all still in the Dollhouse.

BTW Topher looks out of his mind in the future for Epitaph one and last week gave us a great reason how this could be - his tech destroying the world and Bennet being killed in front of him (with her blood splatting over him) - yet this week he seemed more normal - so something *else* has to be the cause - which is a pity because it all fitted so well (i guess he's still one of the causes of the destruction but its going to have happened 'off screen')

Actually i think it would have been better not to have this episode - you leave last week and then go straight to the 'future' - who knows how their plans panned out - you just know the world ended at some point between then and the 'future' timezone.

Well whatever they did obviously didn't work. I prefer the idea that they didn't actually do any of that last bit than they just 'missed something'.


Though it would have been cool if Topher had sneaked one of the devices out in his pants and then became ruler of the planet.

Well whatever they did didn't work because as had already been said, the technology couldn't be uninvented. Also the people they were fighting had multiple bodies. They thought taking down that Rossum building took everything down but that was clearly foolish.It was basically that the whole thing was unstoppable and their actions ultimately futile.

See, your answer is basically "They were pillocks". Which is a bit anticlimactic. Mine is more exciting - they were outplayed.

I... dunno what to think really.

Oh, look! A nice big reset button! Let's give it press and try and wring a happy ending out this beast.

BLAM! Paul's dead, but he lives on (along with over 30 other people) inside Echo's head. Romantic, but slightly creepy. And when was Paul's backup made? Bah, I wish I could just enjoy this shit instead of over analysing it.

Alpha had imprinted Paul onto himself when he killed him and Paul's image was used to rebuild the real Paul into an Active so there would have been images around (although who knows how far back - when they were back at the dollhouse i was wondering if Topher was going to imprint an earlier copy of himself onto someone to help him (or could probably have 'fixed' him to some degree but instead he had to be the sacrifice).

I need to go back and watch Epitah 1 to remind myself what was on the wall that Topher was looking at when the explosion happened (pictures of everyone heading to sanctuary?)

And its not quite a reset button (at least not in the traditional way) , people have their own minds back but who knows how much is missing and the world is pretty much gone - your going back to starting a lot from scratch.

I figured Topher's 'Huh!' as he saw the pictures was him seeing someone he recognised and didn't expect to see (Bennett? Unlikely, but this is a Wheedon show) and it was something of a return to 'sanity'. He seemed almost happy and normal again

The third flower is blue.