Commenting on Scott Tobias’ recap of last night’s Dollhouse episode, AV Club writer Zack Handlen makes an interesting observation:
And how weird would it be to know that somewhere out there, somebody had figured out your perfect type; and that the type was passive, endlessly sweet, and completely willing to surrender to you at every turn? This is not a nice thing to learn about yourself, I think.
Somewhere halfway through this first (and maybe only) season, Dollhouse went from being a lousy show with a few interesting elements, at best an intriguing disappointment, to being a genuinely terrific show. That’s not to say it’s a perfect show — in general I agree with Handlen’s later point, that it isn’t “as fully-formed as it could be,” and still, Eliza Dusku remains the least interesting part of the whole thing — but I’d actually be sorry if (or when?) it was canceled at this point.