Dollhouse

[shipperx]

Now, admittedly, I haven't been watching "Dollhouse." I was just somewhat curious about the last episode. I'm sure there's much more to the series that I don't understand, but looking at the finale, it looks like their post-apocalyptic world and a brain wiping/rebooting pulse is eerily similar to (okay, strikingly similar to) Stephen King's Cell .

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[xc-runner50.livejournal.com]

Finally! Someone noticed something that I figured out a long while ago all the way back in season 1. I just saw a parallel with Dollhouse and Cell tech idea. But now the end result is frighteningly similar it gives me the chills, I loved the book so very much too. Think I might have to go and do a reread.

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

From what I saw, it would be seriously easy to say that Dollhouse took place in the Cell universe.

[xc-runner50.livejournal.com]

Yeah. The whole concept is just scary. I used to think about it every time my cell phone would ring. Sometimes I just wouldn't answer it lol. Luckily its been a few years since I've read the book.

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

All I can say is don't read Duma Key then. I read that King novel a few years ago and now every time I'm on vacation at the Gulf and am on the beach at sunset, I get a little freaked out. :)

[kitmarlowescot2.livejournal.com]

Ohhh, tech induces zombies then. Sounds intresting.

[deborahc.livejournal.com]

it looks like their post-apocalyptic world and a brain wiping/rebooting pulse is eerily similar to (okay, strikingly similar to) Stephen King's Cell.

I thought the exact same thing. It was instant recall to King's Cell. But I suppose it's not impossible for Joss to have thought it up independently. Rahirah thought up bringing back the First Evil and Willow becoming corrupted by magic and power in her fic novel Necessary Evils before S6 & S7 of BtVS.

A few months ago I watched an old Dollhouse Q&A with the cast and Joss. Someone asked Joss about his fascination with mind control, which comes up time and again with characters in all his series. And as she talked and gave examples; i.e. Spike, [Riley], River, Echo et.al...., he acted non-plussed, as if this was a revelation to him. He made some comment about how he'd never realized that before and would have to go home and think about it. But, hell yeah - it's mind control, hot women with super powers, or super-fighting skills anyway, and apocolypses.

Echo and whathisnames last scene before he's shot reminded me of B/S in End of Days and Chosen. For all the talk of ED's limitations as an actress though, I thought she was very effective in her melt-down Never-tell-him scene. It even brought a lump to my throat. But at the end, when she laid herself down in her old sleeping cell with her lover's print inside her, I imagined her future being one where she's content to live inside her head while she the world she helped save gets on with life without her.