Dollhouse: FINALE – Goodbye ECHO. Miss You Much
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Loading ...I Laughed, I Cried, It Became a Part of Me
The final (snif sniff) episode of the series is Epitaph 2: Return. Jump 10 years in the future to the second half of the rarely seen (only on the DVD) first Season 13th episode – Epitaph 1. Meet Zone, Mag and a little girl who is imprinted with… well watch for yourself dammit! I looked like a schizophrenic mess watching it – laughing one minute and weeping the next. Fun for the whole family. Well that is if your whole family enjoys apocalyptic nightmare scenarios involving out of control mind control tech that was created to build a better hooker. I LOVE JOSS WHEDON! Bye Echo! You’ll be missed 
Only flaw I noticed was no attempt to make the characters LOOK like it was 10 years older. Seemed a bit odd that they looked like they hadn’t aged a day since the fall of Rossum.
I’m so sorry Joss didn’t get a chance to tell us more from the Dollhouse universe. As commented in the post about the previous episode, Whedon truly is a storyteller of epic proportions. As much as I’d like to see him write for the movies, I hope he hasn’t REALLY given up on series television. Love your work Joss!!!! Network execs suck. Its all numbers. I don’t know how they even figure those numbers now anyway – on demand and websites like hulu making sharing TV possible online, the ratings of who watched it the night it aired are irrelevant.
The comment also blaming the audience isn’t that far off the mark. The general public would rather watch petty fame whores duke it out over whose the better dancer, cook, hairdresser, dressmaker, interior designer, drag performer or pet groomer (really?). And while I’ll reluctantly admit to loving Tabitha’s Salon Takeover (just because she is a bitch from hell doesn’t make her wrong) and the first few seasons of Runway, I think reality TV is a serious danger to the future of original programming and we get closer to The Running Man every day.
I also think there are many Joss Whedon fans who gave up when they were not grabbed by the first 5 or so episodes. In some ways the series didn’t really pick up until we started learning more about “Alpha” and the danger he represented, and I think too many of the Buffy and Firefly fans dropped off before Dollhouse reached a point where they might have been hooked.
