What's your point?

I thought the finale was a bore. A pyscho serial killer? A sort-of chase through an electrical plant? The hunky rouge FBI agent showing up in the nick of time?

Despite a few interesting ideas, this was mostly a hackneyed mess, painful to watch.

If this is the best Dollhouse can do, it deserves to be canceled.

Bring back the far-superior Terminator:TSCC instead. (Well, a man can dream...)

Jesus, people this is a television show. Not a doctoral thesis. Not a political party platform. Just a very entertaining television show.

Just in case you weren't being sarcastic, is that in return for living with their imprints the Dolls get to live in a luxury resort and have their every need looked after. Nicer than what most of us get for selling ourselves, but that's just a matter of degree.

You usually chime in with hilarious (albeit often hostile) one-liners - what gives? Someone who looks just like Whedon beat you up in grade school or something?

Dollhouse the worst show EVER ON TV? Really? Worse than Saved by the Bell, TJ Hooker, Joanie Loves Chachi, Cop Rock, and Viva Laughlin?

Guess you ended up making me laugh after all!

TJ Hooker was actually one of the BEST shows ever on tv.

When I first heard the premise for "Dollhouse", I wondered if Joss could give us a show I could even watch. I have therefore been pleasantly surprised by the results, **and** by Fox's allowing the first 12 shows to air in order, w/o moving the show around, leaving multiple weeks of gaps, or similar issues we have seen for other Joss shows (cough-"Firefly"-cough).

I have tried to like all the hot shows; but I gave up on "Lost" (too many characters and too complex), "Heros" (same as Lost), and even TSCC. Hey, I WANT SOMETHING NEW-ish, not just a rehash of an existing 3 movie franchise serving to hold us over until they can reboot it with "Salvation". I sure love Star Trek, so I give credit to JJ Abrams for at least attempting the reboot (we will need to see how successful that's going to be long term when the glow of this year's film wears off). And both TSCC and Star Trek are relying too much on time-travel / timeline changes these days (TNG, Voyager, Enterprise, and now "ST, the Reboot" all had/have major timeline story arcs).

As for me, I have found Dollhouse (a) at least interesting, and (b) not more "robot apocalypse" or CSI or Doctors or Police or ... / but it has also combined elements of many of those other genres in a way I find watchable. Is it the best show on TV? Can't say about that, but many of the shows I liked - from "Homicide / Life on the Streets" to "Pushing Daisies" - seemed to have received good critical acclaim, but not enough luv from the networks they were on to keep them going. I think Joss has learned a few things from his last 12 years of shows, and independent of anything else, Dollhouse was well shot, had tight scripts, a good mid-length story arc (ended in 12 shows), and good potential to go from here. He didn't spend 10 shows building up to the first big release of additional content (thankfully).

For the folks complaining about the "feminist" side of Dollhouse, the fact that the dolls are both men and women is one interesting fact. The other is the use of women in three major roles - Echo as a Doll, Adelle DeWitt as a "company woman" managing the LA house, and Dr. Claire Saunders as the scarred but nurturing house doctor. Adelle's role showed some interesting aspects when we learned she is strongly attracted to an imprint of Victor likely built to her own specifications, with whom she had been having an off-site affair. And then there's Dr. Saunders, who is actually a Doll imprinted with at least part of the pattern of the doctor killed by Alpha in his original escape. Really wonder what she will do now, and what was her original personality (if she was the original "most wanted doll", perhaps she and Echo will have some more interaction?). Not sure anyone else is writing these kinds of roles in SciFi these days, but Joss is (hey, I like the new Sarah Conner, but her nominally female counterparts are both cyborgs).

Is Joss perfect? Of course not. Does he produce interesting TV? For me, yes. So I am looking forward to the next 12 episodes (likely won't get a full 20 or 22 episodes of this kind of show in the future, at least based on what I see happening to TV these days). We still don't know if Boyd Langton is what he says he is (NSA maybe? or how about from a competitor!), or who was embedding messages to Paul Ballard in various imprints, or what else Rossume Corp. is up to (notice all that stuff about human cloning in the "flashback" when Caroline and her boyfriend attacked the animal experimental lab?). But the implication - that global corporations and the people that run them are operating outside any restrictions imposed by any government - is the background message here. Paul may have helped Mellie escape, but he's in it now, with no going back to the FBI - that kind of agency doesn't have the power to win here (something FBI Agent Olivia Dunham may beginning to realize over on "Fringe" as well).

With Battlestar gone on to TV heaven (literally, in the last episode), and so much of TV stuff I don't want to watch ("Dexter", "Breaking Bad" - good shows about things I don't need more information about), I sure hope "Dollhouse" gets greenlit for Season 2. All I ask is that Joss (or someone) find a recurring role for Gina Torres on one of these shows. How about as the Manager of the NY Dollhouse? Road trip, Joss?

i enjoyed reading the article. and i agreed with heather's general take on things..up until the last few paragraphs. i have to disagree strongly that the weakest part of the show is Eliza Dushku's acting. Contrary! Most of the season finale felt forced (Time for Alpha to appear!), awkward (Topher's character is like something out of How I Met Your Mother knockoff), formulaic (a serial killer? really? and while i know it was supposed to reek "Fake" whats with the David Lynch-lite Roy Orbison scene..yuck), stiffly acted (Paul) and poorly-written UNTIL Echo confronts Alpha. She OWNED that scene.

Eliza's portrayal of Echo is the main reason I watch the show each week.

Plot/writing-wise the season has been wildly uneven and in that sense this episode was a proper "reduction". Josh CAN write but when he isn't writing dialog that is snappy and thoughtful--his fall back is geekboy..which i grow tired of quickly. And everything else he writes to fill each episode (intentionally?) smacks of rejected Charlie's Angels/Dynasty episodes.

i find it funny that as a fellow fan of the show (and it's shifting politics) our impressions could be so radically different. Regardless of the differences..I hope the show IS renewed.