Blog 5

Behavior patterns beyond memory

This episode shows how the dolls are starting to do the same things over and over, such as sitting at the same table and eating lunch with the same people. “The wipes are clean. This goes deeper than memory, into instinctual survival patterns. Flocking, a whole mess of sparrows turning on a dime, uh, salmon trucking upstream…They’re a little bit bison.” This worries the scientists because they want every doll to act the same when their minds are wiped and placed back into the Dollhouse. Echo’s memory was totally wiped during her mission, which led to the criminal crew being stuck in the vault, awaiting for the cops to surround them. Sierra  Even though she was wiped from her job capabilities, she was able to translate directions given from someone else to try to escape from the vault. This shows human techniques of survival. In this state, she shows a sense of naivety, but she is still able to learn and feel. She ends up analyzing the pieces of art that surrounded her in the vault. They didn’t make her feel broken, like the other criminal said, but she had a feeling that something was missing from her. The idea that the information put into the dolls heads are only genetically stolen memories and not persona is greatened when Sierra becomes the same criminal as Echo.  I thought the ending of Dollhouse was interesting, because it seemed that Echo was starting to analyze things more from seeing her trace her face onto the mirror. Most dolls wouldn’t have done anything.