Dollhouse 1x7

[clodia_risa]

I loved everything about the episode EXCEPT the layout and design of the building. And one other thing.


1) Animal facilities are separate from laboratories.
2) Laboratories always have locks on the door.
3) Animal facilities always have multiple locks, hallways and doors both.
4) The more secure the facility needs to be, the crazier the lock. I've seen biometrics.
5) As much as I sympathize with Caroline, I am annoyed at her "using animals in the name of 'science'" spiel. There are very few times that I want to yell "Damn Hippies!" but this particular cause is one of them. Obviously, whatever Rossum was up to was evil, but animal research in and of itself is not evil. Further there are no viable alternatives to animal research at this time. How do I know this? Because that's my husband's job right now - to figure out cell culture alternatives to animal research. If that becomes possible, we're going to have to know a LOT more about how the various organs and systems interact. We don't have that knowledge. Further, all research facilities that do animal research are held to extremely high standards on the humane treatment of said animals. There are severe punishments if you do not hold to said standards.

Ignoring the above factors, I loved the episode. Especially all the handlers and staff being on drugs. Hilarious. Also, my new theory is that they're going to alienate Ballard until he quits, and then they're going to make him an offer he can't refuse. I know he'd get buyers.

Comments

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

Animal experimentation isn't a hot-button issue for me, so I didn't really connect to Caroline that way. In fact, I felt very disconnected to her, like we were watching flashbacks of a dead person. I don't know if that's the direction or the acting.

I liked the use of animal experimentation, though, because it set up Caroline as an activist in the most pro-active sense: someone who intervenes and fights. I also thought it was kind of laughably ironic that she's so concerned with animal experimentation, when set in the larger world of horror that is this show. It made her seem naive, a trait which might explain why she eventually ends up coerced into the Dollhouse instead of being killed or not getting caught. Caroline wasn't prepared for the real enemy. But maybe Echo will be.

[clodia-risa.livejournal.com]

I didn't think of it that way before. Seeing her activism distanced me from her, but that's because of my background. Thinking about what they were trying to accomplish with the animal activism thing, I'm down to one of two things. Either what you just described, or (if there's an overwhelming animal research=bad/science corporations=bad atmosphere in Hollywood) that she's the noble hero that just got over her head.

I'll be able to like her a little better if I go for the naive good girl. Thanks for that thought!