They could have just thrown the first 5 episodes in to the garbage can. While Dollhouse was on I was watching the outstanding series finale of Battlestar Gallactica on my DVR. I paused the DVR at a break which happened to be at 9 PM and saw just the very intro TV remote that they opened the show with. Just write there it telegraphed that this was going to be a great episode which I did watch after finishing BSG.
The one thing that particularly struck me other than opening segments with mock TV street interviews about the existence of a Dollhouse was the editing. Tight and nicely done. Bad editing can destroy a work and good editing can save a poorly filmed one. The subtext that was introduced last week was better woven into this episode. And this episode wasn't all about Eliza's character. In fact in a way seemed to get back a little to the kind of character she can play well (give her some comic relief) that I saw in "Nobel Son" on DVD earlier in the week. I'm not sure but that may have been Whedon himself doing a cameo (sporting long hair and beard) in the last TV interview. Ronald Moore the creator of the new BSG appears at the newstand at the end of the BSG finale. We can hope that this episode sets a series "bible" for future episodes to follow to keep them up to snuff. Disclaimer: no personal pronouns were mistreated or harmed in any way during the making of this post.
