Blog_4 Dollhouse S1E1

            The Dollhouse is a place where they wipe away your memories and use you for special jobs, which seems pretty crazy. After watching the first episode of the first season, now I actually understand the concept of the show, and I think it’s a very good show. The main character’s name is Ecko, and the episode started with her having a great time with the man she with who I made out to be her significant other. She willingly goes to her what she thinks is some sort of treatment, and her memory is wiped away. I would like to know what kind of treatment she thinks she is going to receive each time before she goes through with it, because she is never skeptical about it. Ecko wonders off to the room where they admit new people, and witnesses them “working” on a woman, who appears to be in pain. They talk to her like she is a five year old, and everybody else too. Each person in the Dollhouse is extremely spaced out, listening to everything the workers say without questioning. The purpose of this house is to use people’s personalities and put them all together on hard drives, then to upload these super personalities into the people. They then sell these people to do crazy jobs for a lot of money. Some rich guy, whose daughter had been kidnapped, hires Ecko to serve as a special negotiator. The Dollhouse downloaded all of the necessary traits to be the best person for the job into her mind, so she is essentially a puppet. The kidnappers want 10 million dollars, and upon the transaction to return the little girl, she knows that he won’t give the girl back. The kidnappers fled, but Ecko knew where too. The Dollhouse figures that Ecko failed, so she is sent for her treatment.  Surprisingly after the treatment, Ecko remembers everything and is still able to save the girl; which introduces the concept that she may have some sort of ability to retain her memory. Rather she can retain her actual life or just the ones that had recently been loaded into her brain, I don’t know. But I will definitely continue watching this show, quite enjoyable.