1) I see your point Phoenix. I just think the ‘convenience’ of the prison-break was part of the problem. But thanks for giving me some extra context. I still find it bad, but not quite as bad.

2) Fair enough – I must have missed that. I do find it a bit convenient that she just happened to remember his or the DH’s number though.

4) I’ll give him that – he refused to act on those instincts. I wish I saw him through your eyes. I just can’t see him as a ‘good guy’ at this point.

7) Cool, looking forward to it!

Thanks for your thoughts – always interesting and insightful!

To address the points you brought up this review:

1) Echo and Ballard weren’t using busting her out as a warmup for taking down the Dollhouse, they were using it as a warmup to see if Echo could control her imprints and call them up at will in order to turn her into a self-directed weapon. Breaking Galena out (and props for remembering her name, because I didn’t) was just the most convenient way they could grab to do that.

2) During the three months she was absent before “Meet Jane Doe,” when Echo was just starting to recover her memories, she remembered Paul and called him. He did mention that in passing, but it was just a bit of exposition that was hard to spot.

3) I was confused about the time-jump too.

4) I bought two things about the Echo/Ballard moments: first, there are some of us who like Ballard, second, because it’s a bit of expository way to show us that Echo has completely “woken up” and is her own person, and fourth, it’s supposed to showcase that Ballard is one of the good guys because he’s given up on his creepy fantasies about Echo/Caroline from season one and is being forced to see Echo as her own person. His decision to *not* act on both of their feelings was a bit of a turning point for him. He was a bit of a creeper on that point in the first season, I’ll give him that.

5) I love the questions that Echo raises about Caroline, of course (wait till “Getting Closer,” trust me), but the great moment of this show was when Ballard told her that she should call herself Caroline and she smacked him down: “I’m NOT Caroline. I’m ECHO.” That was a pretty liberating power grab for her, and it was nice to watch.

6) Adelle DeWitt is the sort of evil that hates itself as much as anything else, which is interesting to watch. The moment where she leaves her dignity behind and stumbles into the dolls’ showers was like watching a train wreck — I couldn’t look away. Olivia Williams is a kick-ass actress.

7) You actually will find out why they can’t find Whiskey in “Getting Closer,” when she makes her reappearance. Also, Bennett Halverson will continue to appear in the second season (for the win!).

I’m glad that you are starting to like Rossum a bit more. There’s a bit more going on there than meets the eye, really. Also, did you catch that Rossum is named after that creeptastic eastern play “Rossum’s Universal Robots”? Heh.