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  • who was the spy on the inside of the DH sending the imprinted messages? I missed that...??

  • @mikeepp70 Mr Dominic, the Head of security.

  • "I'm going to make you an offer... Your life... for your life"

    "DEAL." [signs paperwork. leaves building.]

  • @whichoney have you seen any of his shows? Buffy was a cult classic and i will admit the last 4 seasons were kinda bad but that so was amazing. Angel was an amazing show that was nominated for an Emmy and was a darker side of the Buffy craze. Firefly was just amazing. Dollhouse never got a chance to develope as a show. And Dr.Horrible's Sing Along Blog is one of the best thing on the internet.

  • this looks like shit. Ill never understand why this guy gets so much nerd cred. He hasn't made anything passed mediocre.

  • I know why fox cancelled this show it was talking about MKUltra. The dolls were mind controlled.

  • What is that musical piece that starts at 10:40. It seems to be a general theme for the show.

  • How many seasons are there?

  • This show is Fucking amazing.......if you havn't watched it you need to

  • I LOVE TH!S FUC*!NG SHOW.. w!sh they would of made more seasons.

  • @birchrain: was the "safe word" phrase from Serenity in Russian???

  • Seems like it would have been a better movie but it's on Netflix so I'll watch it anyways (:

  • What this says to me is that Joss just wasn't done exploring the themes integral to 'firefly' ten years ago...Of course the ideas have mutated somewhat:

    1. big evil corporations sucking the souls out of people (kidding, he just likes this, and it's handy)

    2. The concept of the perfect date--the illusion of intimacy through the experience of prestige and control.

    3. Ку́рам на́ смех. Nuff said.

    I wish they would just let him do his thing sometime, uncurtailed, and give us more brilliant.

  • Dollhouse was brilliant, interesting but soooo underrated TV show. It deserved more and more seasons. Eliza Dushku did a wonderful job - amazing actress. Victor (Enver Gjokaj) and Sierra (Dichen Lachman) became one of my favorite TV couples ever. All the cast was great except for the guy who played Topher. He was so annoying and his acting was weak

    In some moments Dollhouse reminded me my favorite TV shows of the 90's - La Femme Nikita, The Pretender, Spy Game and even RoboCop: The Series

  • A short Sci-Fi film inspired by Dollhouse -> watch?v=QR_FemRGcvU

  • I really think this show could have realized more of its potential if it had been allowed more time. It constantly keeps you questioning your ideas of reality - what is your personal identity? Is the Dollhouse moral? How do we control technologies that could help us and also hurt us? I think it's remarkable that a television show can explore these questions, and think it's a pity that the rest of the country doesn't seem as interested in it as I am.

  • Hmmmm... Fox mucking Joss Whedon about I heard that before.... Was very similar with Buffy the Vampire Slayer but the show was just too darn good for them to stop it. I know this from a dvd feature as I have all Buffy Seasons. Google iwatchdollhouse dot com to watch episodes of this! Suggest clicking on the Wise Vid links ;-)

  • They cancelled this? I only just heard of this by chance through another website. Maybe it just wasnt promoted enough.

  • November is Hot!

  • what an ingenious concept "did i fall asleep?...for a little while" The show was way ahead of its time... that's why it was canceled.. The casual viewer could never understand the premise of this show

  • i dont understand why they cancelled this :(

  • A short Science Fiction Drama, inspired by several Television shows, including DOLLHOUSE: 'ESPERIA' -> watch?v=S31k2yki83o&hd=1

  • I loved this show they shouldnt hav cancelled it!!

  • FOX BLOWS!!! What kind of moron pulls the plug on a show with an ingenius plot like this show had?!

  • @xcaliber45 They probably didn't understand it. All of the best series that I've discovered, for the first time sadly, over the past year (Arrested Development, Firefly, and Dollhouse mostly) were on Fox and were canceled. And they were all smart, funny, and innovative. Fox apparently doesn't understand shows like that, and they should hand those shows over to someone who does, imo.

  • @virginiarules510 Television itself doesn't understand those types of shows so we end up with 24. A repeated plot where the main character shoots everyone.

  • you can see the show free and now on hulu do search on the web

  • Is there a video any one can provide that has season two recap??

  • @ukz1punjabiprincess just look 4 the series recpap, that was the last season

  • @ReaperP13 I'm not sure if there's one available. :(

  • why focus on paul and mellie but not at all on victor and sierra or paul and echo??

  • It's such a shame that this show was canceled. It was probably the only non-comedy show that's ever interested me, and it was what I waited to watch every week.

  • @xArmonx really they dont make dollhouse anymore ??? :(

  • Is season 1 of dollhouse worth buying? I've never seen the show,but everything Joss Whedon has done is awesome.

  • If you ask me, this is far much better than anything Joss has ever done.

  • i think it really is. Fab show, too bad season 2 is cancelled. i really could recommend it, i would buy it too haha, unlucky me that they dont sell it in belgium

  • maybe download a few episodes from itunes or xbox live to try it out? i loved buffy/angel/firefly seen every ep'4-5 times

    i was dissapointed by dollhouse though?

  • My impression is (based solely on this recap), that the series lacks the type of "hero" characters, that were present in Whedon's other series.

    I had to see 4 episodes of Firefly, before I started liking its chars. So I could be wrong here, too.

    But in the recap, I couldn't find a reason to care for any of the chars..or even the story, by the by. Could that be Dollhouse's weakness?

  • @Kijinn Trust me, this recap doesn't do the show justice. Characters such as Topher, Adelle and season 2's Bennett (played by Summer Glau, which is reason enough to love her) are among the best I've seen on television.

  • @Alakazambarapoof theres no one from season 2 cause its a season one recap... thats why Bennett isnt in this....

  • @trisa24 I know that. I just mentioned that she's so awesome she alone is kind of a good enough reason to watch this show.

  • @Kijinn no it doesnt, both echo and paul fit the bill

  • It's liked by a lot of Whedon fans, but very few (myself included) think it's his best. It has its weak moments, but, in my opinion, it has moments more powerful than anything else Joss has done. I say go for it, there's nothing as good on TV right now, except for Dexter.

  • It is epic.

  • best show i've ever seen :) totally worth watching :)

  • worth

  • thx:)

  • professional work

  • Well that plugged a couple of gaps for me as someone who just watched the last 5 episodes. I found out about it late as I just became a huge firefly fan and I just branched out into the "Whedonverse." To bad it's going off air...

  • A lot of people probably won't notice, but some very nice editing there. Great recap vid.

  • Thanks! We worked for two weeks on this cut.

  • Sorry to tell all of you but I heard that Dollhouse is over. This January is their series finale.

  • right at the end dr saunders go to topher

    why is it so important for me to hate you

    its stupid question but bugging me -

    topher didnt really programme ehr to ahte him did he, its jsut something she feels

  • This was a cool recap!!! It didn't blow the biggest surpirse! HOWEVER, giving away november..hmmm..Great video though!

  • I'm already impressed heroes is lasting as long as it does. When the whole time traveling and history / future correcting came around I loved the fact that these kind of plots tred outside of sci fi realms like star trek etc. But now it's almost as if they are trying to find more soapy things.

    With dollhouse' double bottom of "technical spiritality" I'm not surprise it gets canceled so easily

  • This show is sooo cool!!! :D

  • I hope this show finds a way to survive. The writing is EXCELLENT, and the direction is EXCELLENT. Also, the wardrobe person is EXCELLENT(for the girls; I don't care what the guys wear..). And, the fight scenes are absolutely the best staged events ever undertaken by mortals.

  • @Thadumas yeah..i love all Joss Whedon's movies/shows..i still watch buffy til this day..lol

  • I may be the only person on earth who never has watched an episode of "Buffy..." I hadn't realized Whedon's connection to that show before I fell in love with Dollhouse. Whether Dollhouse survives or not,Whedon will be back with something soon. It must be an incredible bitch,though,to have to abandon(yet again)everything it takes to build a great show. I especially love how generous he's been to ALL of the actors as the deadline for the show's premature ending bore down on him,the writer.

  • @Thadumas yeah :( angel still comes on thought in the mornings lol

  • No TV. I will get around to downloading it from somewhere one of these days. I found "Dollhouse" late,and only because I wanted to update the crush I've had on Dushku since she played Arnold's daughter way back in the day. She grew up nicely. Amazing how you just throw a little water on it,let some time pass,then..BAM!--a woman where a kid once stood. Now I'm a great admirer of Olivia Williams. I'm very impressed with how MUCH acting she manages using just her eyes. Plus,she's very smart.

  • Support Dollhouse and Buy it.

  • I'm thinking that by the time I get to see it,everything that went into producing it(including the people)has long since been paid for completely. I really don't believe Hollywood or TV ever loses money on any investment.

  • echo was able to fully trust Boyd, like a father, and connect with Paul despite not knowing who she is. the idea of actives, is that they are supposed have human instincts and nothing else - no memories, no souls, nothing.but i kinda understand what your saying cos each episode i was hoping caroline would wake up, but it became clear half way through season 1 , that that wasnt gonna happen anytime soon.

  • This was a great show. It will be missed. Check out my video "Dollhouse Cancelled, Screw Fox" for a justified laugh.

  • Dollhouse is amazing! one of the most intelligent series I have ever seen.

  • what i find really interesting about this show is that the technology that is being explored, is not that far from becoming a reality. apparently scientists are already able to erase the memories of certain animals by using a protein. the fact that joss and eliza were able to come up with this show and still relate it to today's society and technology is amazing. when theres power, theres always people who abuse it, and dollhouse really explores that concept

  • @FiveBii5 You shouldn't take those researches too seriously

    even though they are making a lot of progress, the dollhouse technology is far far away and probably will never exist.

    I agree it's an interesting idea, and that it has relevance to our developing technological world, but not because brain wash is around the corner.

  • @FiveBii5 What do you it's not far from becoming a reality. Look up MK ultra and monarch programming, this is far from cutting edge, governments have been developing this for decades.

  • i relli hope this series carries on for as long as it can. a relli interesting plot twist wud be if dewitt left the dollhouse, and caroline sumehow took her place

  • like in angel when angel made a deal with wolfram and hart, so that connor could live a normal life without hiim

  • I have only seen a few episodes but looked up wikipedia to see what it was all about. This series sounds amazing and what i've seen so far was amazing :)

    I love you Joss!!

  • watch on hulu. support it.

  • I'm glad my favorite quote from the season was included... "This is the herd." "They're not bison, Topher." "They're a little bit bison."

  • I still like House more, but Dollhouse is catching up.

  • i really like this series its cool

  • I really like Eliza Dushku!!

  • Really I liked her as Faith and I think she can pull off some of the personalities but others are not so good! I think the show would have done better with a different actress.

  • yeah i like eliza more as faith. But she's not too bad in this show! i wonder why joss picked eliza to be the female lead for this show. ANd i also wonder how the show would be like if they used a different female actress as lead

  • eliza and joss had the idea of dollhouse together.. i think thats why she's the actress of echo and i think thats good xD

  • who's leaving messages on the imprints?? this show gets me a little confused.

  • We still don't know. Stay tuned to find out.

  • It was Lawrence Dominic, he was secretly working for the NSA. He was caught in "A Spy in the House of Love," and boyd was promoted to his position.

  • dominic. you find out in the episode 'spy in the house of love'

  • this is a great recap! it takes all the best parts of the first season without all the crappy parts haha. altho i wish they'd shown more of the end w/ alpha and all that.

  • Where is alpha is the 2nd season?

    I want more ...... Joss help me!

  • Name is Topher ahahah! & WHAT!? I saw the last episode, alpha I think, the strong guy got away didn't he? I can't wait for this show and Law and Order : SVU, both shows come on the same week :D!

  • woah this looks amazing!!<3 and echo is so pretty.

  • i'm wondering how they can be filming a second season when 'epitah one' the episode that wasnt aired in the USA was so final and kind of depressing (poor gopher! (was tht his name? i cant remember lol))

    Ah well i cant wait :D

  • dollhouse rocks

  • I Effin Love this Show Ittsssss sooo bomb ... i hate alphas bitch ass...lol... Qoute "Whiskey why cant you let echo be number one..." that was so funny and i cant believe alphas ass scraped up victors face ohhhhh i hate alpha...LOVE LOVE LOVE THE SHOW>>>>> DOLLHOUSE ROCKS

  • eliza dushku is albanian ;D

  • akaezzaka, It was shown on Sci Fi on Tuesday's at 9, it ended last week, I think repeats are still showing from time to time though, get the DVD when it's out, it's an awesome show! :)

  • This series is awesome! Another fantastic creation from the genius Joss Whedon!

  • does this get sown in the uk, it looks really good :S

  • Yes it does and if i read correctly it will air an episode (#13 Epitah one) otherwise not aired in the USA due to contractual complications but will be in the DVD box set when sold.

  • wow this recap is great.

  • Stratusfaction4ever, It isn't cancelled so please stop saying that, they are filming the second season now :)

  • Well done. I was wondering if you or anyone else possibly knows that very tranquil but eerie sounding music. It plays often in this recap. The specific part of the music I'm referring to you'll hear at like 5:40 or 8:20. If anyone happens to know, please let me know. I think this show has such a great sounding score.

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  • Umm.. It wasn't cancelled. It is returning for a second season.

  • Thank you Thank you Thank you!!!!!

  • This is such a spin off of dark angel but I love dollhouse we have not had a good actions/science show like this in ages

  • What about Torchwood: Children Of Earth if you havent seen it or don't like Torchwood then i recomend it

  • i hope theres going to be a second series. didn't think i was going to like it but i got hooked!!!

  • It was confirmed ages ago that there doing a season two, they have even already started filming it.

  • good. don't know why there wouldn't be a second season. it's a great show.

  • technically episode 12 is the real last one, episode 13 was only made because FOX didn't count the pilot as the starting episode being #1. Even though the pilot is the first episode of the show. I also did see the 13th episode, it was really good actually, just left a lot of questions.

  • Okay...

    what is Dollhouse about anyway?

  • This recap explains dollhouse you hv to watch it to know about it... I like it cos it's kept me wanting more... Legend of the Seeker and Merlin couldn't do that but ah, if you like sci fi then you will love this!

  • what the video!

  • great recap!!!

    How did you get the episodeS? :O hehe

    thanks!

  • i think its an official vid... originally Fox also had it on their channel, but i don't know if it is still there. It is probably used as advertisement for the dvd.

  • thanks

  • in whicxh episode they show that beginning of this video? :s its not episode 1 right? :S

  • 7 or 6 can't memba but it's da one where at the end, they make Sam a doll

  • I didn't know Fred was on this show!

  • is there going to be a 2nd season?

  • there sure is. stars in Sept 2009!

  • of course!!! JULY/August start filming it!!

  • if u want to see Eliza Dushku head on my body email me

  • in your dreams!

  • i would like to be a doll 4 real i would even do 4 7 years

  • Eliza Dushku can't shoot a compound worth a damn.

  • How many of you would willingly volunteer to be a "doll" in the dollhouse. I know I'd do it.

  • In terms of personal identity Dollhouse uses the memory criterion. Are you a different person if you have different memories? Each imprint is essentially a different person. And Echo is different to Caroline. When they do a wipe have they killed someone?

    The Dollhouse asks you to question everything, and like Whedons other shows it tells you that life is not just black and white, everything is just shades of grey. It is a complex show where noting is as it seems.

  • An active voluntarily signed away their own freedom for five years, in return they get whatever horrible situation they landed in sorted out, and they get reimbursed with quite a lot of money. And they dont remember anything for those 5 years, to them it seems like only a few seconds from when they first got into the chair. (However this is not what happened to Sierra who was forced into the Dollhouse).

  • The Rossum Corp. comes off as a modern day saviour, with the slogan minds matter and Clive Ambrose (the face of the Corp.) has won a Nobel Prize.  They are a drug company that is based in the US. But we do not know what exactly they are working towards. We dont know whether they are good or bad, but we do know they have been testing on animals and human foetuses.

    Its all about the moral ambiguity of the dollhouse and what makes you you?

  • Consequently, Alpha was imprinted with all 48 imprints at once. He managed to escape (after killing most of the people both staff and actives inside the dollhouse). He is thus considered to be a rogue active but continues to have an unhealthy attachment to Echo.

    There are Dollhouses all over the world.  The capital that the Dollhouses generate from their engagements funds the work of the Rossum Corporation.

  • When he heard that Whiskey was the best active he went all psycho and slashed her face asking her if she would allow Echo to number one. The Dollhouse staff, did not realise that the Dolls were becoming self aware and thought that one of Alphas previous imprints had not been completely wiped away. So they decided to look at all his previous engagements to see which one had caused it. But because Alpha did not want to go in the chair, there was an accident and the machine broke.

  • It appears that even in their wiped state, the dolls are at least partially self-aware. As seen by Echo, Alpha, Victor and Sierra. Sierra and Victor have a connection; it looks into the idea of soul mates.  Echo becomes increasingly self-aware over the course of the series. Alpha was previously an attempted murderer. He created an attachment to Caroline when she first came to the Dollhouse, and he wanted Echo to be the best.

  • The concept of the show is: There is a business called the Dollhouse that has the technology to wipe away someone's memories and imprint them with new ones. Certain people can pay a large amount of money to rent out these 'dolls' to be whoever they want them to be for a short time - i.e. a day or a weekend.

    Paul Ballard is an FBI agent trying to find the truth of it. He believes it is immoral and has created an emotional link to Caroline who he sees as the damsel that needs to be saved.

  • seriously do not understand the concept of the show

  • This is the best t.v show ever, can't wait for more and the dvds

  • I'd pay the dollhosue to give me brains of Albert Einstein and Isaac Newton. Seriously the goofy leaps in technology are so unreal.

    Ironic/sad thing is, I bet 1000's of people around the world would put themselevs forward to become a doll if a dollhosue were to exit given the social breakdown/depression and massive unemployment.

  • it proubly does exsist somewhere the tecnolgy exsits and if it exsits then people will use it

  • Im obsessed with the dollhouse despite its creepy and disturbing concept. However the technology of implanting personalities and information into brains world be millions of years away at least, why go to school when you simply can implant the knowledge, the human race would effectively become smarter than aliens if that technology did exist, who needs tropher when you can pick a bum off the street and implant his technical/scientific expertise.

  • millions of years? probably a hundred or so.

    Not, a million. Come on, you can't underestimate the quick advances technology has made in the past 200 years.

  • Well atleast I got the recap, now I know what to expect from season one when I download it, besides the making out it looks interesting...

  • Impressive, Most impressive.

  • they didnt make this recap...fox did.

  • I've seen this trailer before on the Sprint TV on my phone.

  • season 2 has been picked up so no worries dudes, dollhouse returns jan 2010, check fox website :)

  • not till jan?!?!?! Darn!!!!!

  • update: the second season premiere was sept 25

  • A-Ha!....I had you all going. It was picked up for "Season 2"- lol. They cancelled "Terminator: Sarah Conner Cron" instead.....so if Joss fails to deliver he'll have the death of "Dollhouse" and be responsible for killing off "Terminator".

    Fox will make it's annoucement shortly. So Yeah....All You "Terminator" & Summer Glau fans?....blame "Dollhouse" for sucking up all the budget money- lol.

  • Dollhouse is really cheap to make.

    LIke reality-show cheap. The max it cost to produce an episode is 1million dollars.( That's cheap).

    tscc was way more costly to make so FOX, being the asses they are, decided to get rid of Terminator. It was not Joss's fault. FOX's.

  • The set of the Dollhouse looks much like the set of Angel the 5. season (the Wolfram&Hart-set)

  • I love this show so I hope it wont be cancelled!!

  • It's all BUT Cancelled! - they still have an episode they didn't air yet. And they rushed the season Finale to air - remember how "Firefly" episodes were handled?? before it's cancellation? It's done. WHY??

    Do the Math - "Glee" (Special Preview 5/19) is really being Hyped! right? they want that "A.I." & "High School Musical" audience. If "Glee" has amazing numbers and tests well - "Dollhouse" is officially done. DH toke too long to get the story going! just like with "Firefly" Why make more?

  • mellie can kick some ass YEAH

  • Elizas good man,

    Fckin sucks ass that the cockheads over at FOX are cancelling this show.

  • It's not cancelled yet!! We're still waiting.

  • I. LOVE. THIS. SHOW.

  • I love this show!!!!!

  • "...They're a little bit bison"

    lol Topher. :)

  • Amazing recap!

    I showed my Dad it who knows nothing about Dollhouse and he started to get the storyline and get into it lol.

    The only thing im curious about is what episode 1:05 is from? When Adelle is showing Echo round the Dollhouse. Is it an unaired one? If so, how did you get it?

  • Yup, it's from the unaired pilot, which I hope is on the DVD set. They have footage from that because this is an official promo video from Fox.

  • Actually, it's from the episode that aired tonight.

  • Joss said they recycled a lot of the pilot. I bet this is one of those scenes.

  • amazing, best show on tv!

  • OH GOD VICTOR!

  • awesome recap!!! Can't wait for Omega!

  • Where are half of these clips from? I don't remember seeing them, like the footage of alpha's killing spree about 3 minutes in?