The whole arc reeks of plot device and I just can't care about Buffy's predicament if I don't buy it in the first place.
Exactly. Especially now that we have Word Of God (or OK, St Peter or whatever Allie is to Joss) that there are still plenty of Slayers all around the world who didn't need to do this.
As for "Belonging", I'm still trying to find my Dollhouse meta space, if you know what I mean. Stuff I really liked about it, from a "big picture" POV, was that it keeps building on something that both "Epitaph One" and 2.02 (the title escapes me) set up: the dolls as created monsters, as Danas to Echo's Buffy. Sierra takes on the role of the wrongdoer for all the right reasons. Or something. Plus, I loved that it finally adressed the rather horrible fact that Priya was in the dollhouse very much against her will, I'd been waiting for that.
why would Sierra return to being Sierra at the end of the episode?
Beats going to prison. Beats having to face your own darkness. Beats remembering that you stabbed a person to death. I'm still not sure of what they're going for with the idea that the people who choose to enter the DH do so to escape something about themselves, some failing of their own; if they keep playing their cards right, I'm imagining it as the exact antithesis of the "soul" concept on BtVS - that is, deliberately becoming someone else, shutting down your inner voice in order to be able to live in an unfair world.
Or something. Like I said, still working on it. :-)
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The whole arc reeks of plot device and I just can't care about Buffy's predicament if I don't buy it in the first place.
Exactly. Especially now that we have Word Of God (or OK, St Peter or whatever Allie is to Joss) that there are still plenty of Slayers all around the world who didn't need to do this.
As for "Belonging", I'm still trying to find my Dollhouse meta space, if you know what I mean. Stuff I really liked about it, from a "big picture" POV, was that it keeps building on something that both "Epitaph One" and 2.02 (the title escapes me) set up: the dolls as created monsters, as Danas to Echo's Buffy. Sierra takes on the role of the wrongdoer for all the right reasons. Or something. Plus, I loved that it finally adressed the rather horrible fact that Priya was in the dollhouse very much against her will, I'd been waiting for that.
why would Sierra return to being Sierra at the end of the episode?
Beats going to prison. Beats having to face your own darkness. Beats remembering that you stabbed a person to death. I'm still not sure of what they're going for with the idea that the people who choose to enter the DH do so to escape something about themselves, some failing of their own; if they keep playing their cards right, I'm imagining it as the exact antithesis of the "soul" concept on BtVS - that is, deliberately becoming someone else, shutting down your inner voice in order to be able to live in an unfair world.
Or something. Like I said, still working on it. :-)