'Dollhouse': The Best & Worst Doll Personalities
By Zach Oat, TWoP | Wednesday, November 4, 2009, 10:23 AM
Eliza Dushku as Echo on "Dollhouse"
OX/Adam Taylor
Each week on "Dollhouse," most of the show's stars play completely different people, depending on what personality they've been imprinted with for that episode's assignment. If it's a good imprint, it can make for a great episode, but if not, the whole show can suffer. We looked back at the first season and a half to identify the best imprints -- and the ones that just fell flat.
Best: Hostage Negotiator (Echo)
In the very first episode, Echo was imprinted with a hard-nosed kidnapping negotiator... who also had asthma and was nearsighted. Oh, and the negotiator was also a kidnap victim herself, who later committed suicide, and she was kidnapped and almost killed by none other than the kidnapper she's dealing with in this episode.
Worst: Dead Horse Lady (Echo)
"Hey, I've got an idea! To make the show more engaging and interesting to a younger audience, let's have our sexy lead play a stuffy old lady for an hour! She can drink fine wines and say delightfully droll things, and she can try to solve her own murder, like Angela Lansbury!"
Best: Serial Killer (Victor)
When you've got a serial killer who's been hit by a car, and he's got a whole bunch of women held prisoner somewhere, but he won't wake up and tell you where they are, you need access to his brain, stat. So, naturally, you put it into a young, healthy male body, and you don't handcuff him or lock the door to the room he was in or anything.
Worst: Geek Playdate (Sierra)
Topher is okay in small doses, but too much can be annoying. So the decision to create a second Topher for an episode was a mistake. Sierra's imprint is basically a female Topher, who's into video games and all of the other stuff Topher is into, because Topher is apparently 13 years old.
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Best: College Co-Ed (Victor)
When a remote brain wipe goes wrong, Victor ended up swapping personalities with Echo, turning him into a flirty co-ed named Kiki who tears up the dance floor with his/her stripper moves and makes eyes at the boys.
Worst: Lactating Mom (Echo)
When we realized that Echo had been glandularly altered to breast-feed a baby, grow jealous of the dead wife she had replaced and flee because she thought her baby was in danger, we had to double-check to make sure we weren't watching a Lifetime movie.
Best: Natural Born Killers (Alpha & Whiskey)
We still aren't quite sure why anyone would hire two actives to play a pair of Southern wild cards straight out of "Natural Born Killers," so we're not surprised that the plan went south and a crazed Alpha and Whiskey tied the client to a chair and tortured him.
Worst: Blind Undercover Cultist (Echo)
If you're going to send an active to infiltrate a cult and transmit back images, why make that active blind for real? Yes, it may have put Echo above suspicion, but it also made her a total liability that needed to be rescued. Couldn't they have just made her extremely nearsighted?
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