So Dollhouse came and went. Season's done and with the gleefully exciting news of it's renewal, now's as good as any time to look back on the finale, titled "Omega".Did it live up to expectations? How mind-blowingly awesome was it? Why should we care? Answers: kind of, not nearly awesome enough and because season 2 has potential to be the best thing on TV since Firefly.
The Finale: as we found out previously, Alpha came back to the 'house, posing as a building engineer/designer/expert/agoraphobic person, kicked everyone's ass and left with Echo in his arms. So he brings Echo back to his lair,where he's concocted his very own doll-imprinting facility. Cut to backstory, we find out more about Alpha, how he had his "composite event", why he's so attached to Echo, and who he was before he became a doll(psychopathic serial killer on death row). So we get Alpha's not-so-secret anymore origin, and about Dr Saunders. The original one, since the girl with cuts is actually a doll named "Whiskey". This raises several more questions. The Biggest one being "who the fuck's actually a doll here?"
Flashback continued, Alpha and Whiskey were hired out to live out someone's "Natural Born Killers" fetish/fantasy. Things go wrong and Alpha is told more than he needs to know. Right before being sent to the Attic, tings go wrong with Topher, computers, Security and Alpha and he gets 43(42?) personalities imprinted into him all at once. So now he fancies himself the next in human evolution. Now he plans to give Echo, the doll he's fancied since his own doll-days, her very own composite event.
Meanwhile, we get a Boyd and Ballard(captured last week) bromance team-up. This results in several awesome moments as we discover these two have a lot more chemistry than we previously thought.
In Alpha's lair, Echo is wiped and Omega is born, but instead of reaching the same conclusion as Alpha( that normal people are below them in the food chain ) she smacks Alpha with a metal pipe. So they duke it out as Caroline, now imprinted in the body of a random receptionist Alpha kidnapped earlier, watched on in shock horror.(Did I tell you, this episode is packed.) Long story short, Alpha escapes and Omega explains that the the president is black now. Cue new status quo for season 2. All in all a satisfying finale, yet still somehow misses the mark. (not enough closure maybe?)
Nonetheless, the Boyd Ballard team-up next season will be fun to watch, even if the "Ballard now working for Dollhouse" pill is a bit hard to swallow. But at this point, I'm buying it. Whedon being the humble, self-deprecating genius that he is seems bittersweet, but with the sad, sad cancellation of it's lead in(Sarah Connor Chronicles) it's doubtful it'll do much better Nielsen wise. I wish them all the best though.
BRING on SEASON 2!!
