Dollhouse is an American science fiction television series created by writer and director Joss Whedon. The show revolves around a corporation running numerous underground establishments (known as "Dollhouses") across the globe which program individuals referred to as Actives (or Dolls) with temporary personalities and skills.
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Were there any plans for Dollhouse Season 3?
Joss Whedon and company are well known for laying groundwork for later episodes or even seasons well in advance. This bit them with Firefly, leaving the stories woefully unresolved.
Dollhouse, on the other hand, was neatly wrapped up in its two…
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What enabled Echo to become a full person?
In Dollhouse, Echo (Eliza Dushku's character) is most notable for how she gradually became a full person. She developed a cohesive identity despite being in doll-state and was able to store the personalities she was imprinted with them in corners of…
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Who else was programming dolls in the LA Dollhouse?
In a few episodes of Dollhouse,
Echo is activated as a sort of sleeper agent
to send messages to Paul Ballard in an effort to keep him on task in his mission to locate and bring down the Dollhouse.
During the series, it is revealed that
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How does an active deal with people met under a previous identity?
Inspired by this question, How is the five year disappearance of a Doll/Active explained?, I wondered if a Doll has any backup programming to deal with a person who recognises them as another of their identities, or thier original identity, during a…
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What was the purpose of the Attic?
In Dollhouse, everyone fears "the attic" as a place from which no-one returns. In one episode we see the attic and people (all presumably Dolls) linked up in what looks like a neural network.
What was the purpose of the Attic?
Was it simply a place…
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Was this scene in Dollhouse retconned out of existence?
In the episode "Epitaph 1", a group of survivors ("actuals") find the dollhouse. They learned how the events of the apocalypse happened by using the imprinting chair to view the memories left by the main team (Echo, Adelle, Topher, etc.).
In one of…
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Why must a person's conciousness be transferred?
In several sci-fi works that deal with transferring consciousness, the consciousness is always transferred and treated like a unique commodity. Dollhouse is probably a good example of this where it seemed to be the case that a consciousness was…
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How is the five year disappearance of a Doll/Active explained?
The Rossum Corporation contracts people to be Dolls/Actives in one of their Dollhouses for five years. At the end of the contract,
they are paid a large sum of money and certain memories are erased from their original personality profiles. For…
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Dollhouse naming conventions
As far as I can remember in the show we only see the operation of the LA and Washington Dollhouses. LA uses the Nato alphabet to name its dolls, while Washington uses Greek Gods.
In the second season we're told about the opening of the Dubai…
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How does Echo come back from the Attic?
It's hinted many times throughout the Dollhouse series that no one ever returns from The Attic. Unfortunately, Echo gets sent there, and we learn she was sent there "undercover" to get information and get back out.
But if no one gets out of the…
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