Blog 2

"Actions have consequences"

This is a quote from within two minutes of the first episode of Dollhouse. People make decisions…and sometimes there were better routes they could’ve taken, yet after the decision has been made, they have to live with it. Bad decisions=bad outcomes. “Do the crime, do the time”. It’s all the same concept. In this case, the main character, Caroline, made a bad decision that led to severe consequences. She ran away from her problems…not an atypical thing to do. I would think that most people wouldn’t want to live their lives the same after such an incident, due to the fact that they’ll be reminded of it every day. Every once in a while, you’ll turn on the news to a high-speed car chase or a wanted for a criminal. These are the people I’m talking about. Those who don’t want to get caught, or arrested, or face up to their wrongdoings. Cowards, in my opinion.

“Nothing is what it appears to be”

First line=foreshadowing. You can look at this line and come up with several meanings.
Something can seem so simple from the outside, yet misleading. It’s like when your friends tell you to break up with your boy/girlfriend because they seem like they could hurt you…but no one REALLY knows the relationship other than the two people in it. Basically, this main character is giving her body up to an organization for five years, and she won’t be able to remember all of it. Seem simple, right? Here, take my body…see you in five years. But what actually goes on in this place? This is a line spoken by the boss, which possibly shows that she’s hiding information. This is a useful tactic in getting someone to do something you want.

This show shows a huge amount of corruption within the human mind. The investigator trying to discover the Dollhouse, Paul, says it perfectly. “No one has everything they want. It's a survival pattern. Once you get what you want, you want something else. If you have everything you want, you want something else. Something more dangerous, more exciting. Something perfect.” It’s an interesting concept. A new iphone is released every year, and people continue to be distressed after they buy the “new” one and another one is announced to be coming out next fall. Why? Why can’t people just settle?