Ballard kept insisting that the Dollhouse is messing with people’s souls. But that presumes the soul is all in the mind, not something more, which to me, is what a soul is – more than just mind and/or body put together… more than the sum of its parts.

And as we can see, the dolls in their doll-state still have elements of themselves remaining. It’s just the links between their memories and acquired knowledge and skills that are severed and reconstituted in silicone circuit form.

So Ballard’s argument about souls is kind of flawed.

My theory on why Topher programmed Saunders to hate him (Assuming that was the actual case):
Topher and Saunders are the only two non-wiped people who seem to live with the dolls 24/7. Topher has severe relationship problems, and I think he just wanted to make sure that Saunders wouldn’t try to approach him, but leave him alone.

I have to say, on the whole, it was fictionalized – and delusionalized – enough to constitute fair use. And I enjoyed watching Alpha and Echo make out, that was TV watching at its weirdest.

All in all, I think I can say it’s probably for the best that I made myself wait two months to actually see Alpha before I called Nancy Grace. Although I do believe it would have been a compelling hour of television. Did you see the Vanity Fair article on Bernie Madoff this month? It reaffirmed the old adage, the very last person you would ever want to have testify against you is your secretary.

I think the adorable, too-sweet-to-annoy people at the Fox Dollhouse wiki would have loved it. Although Melanie the moderator’s nerve cells might have been fried irreparably.

I bet Nancy Grace has a larger audience than Dollhouse. Joss himself might want to consider going that way as a powerful cross-promotion if he gets his second-season relaunch.

I won’t nit-pick Alpha as written. I’ll just say, as for the knife-slashing metaphor, fair enough, to the terribly limited extent that you know me. It’s the only time I’ve ever done anything like that, I made a special exemption for some very special people. Two thousand death threats later, I hope my main target now recognizes me as one of her milder critics.

When you do what I did, you don’t expect to make lifelong friends in the process. But I will say, it’s interesting to me, how manipulative narcissistic/sociopathic personalities independently hit on the exact same thought. If you look up her very limited comments and written statements on the matter, you’ll learn that The Most Hated Woman In America, Lori Drew, considers Tina Meier to be a deranged stalker who shut down her Drew Advantage discount-coupon business for no good reason.

Just putting it out there. Trying to give my readers something to think about, like all writers try to do.