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timepiececlockQuestion about this week's Dollhouse, "Gray Hour" and discontinuity/plot holes:
In the pilot episode DeWitt said... that Echo's value trumped the cost of the mission and seemed far more concerned about the Active as an asset than about the cost to the reputation of the Dollhouse by Echo's failure. Boyd had to argue with his two bosses about the importance of fulfilling the "mission" even though circumstances had changed for the worse. Note: the mission in this case was retrieval of a kidnapped child.
In episode 1x04, the Dollhouse is faced with an almost identical situation: Echo is caput and the engagement has been compromised. Note: the mission in this case is the theft/re-theft of a historical artifact. But unlike last time, DeWitt is visibly distraught over how the failure of the mission affects "the reputation" of the Dollhouse--success or failure is more important than Echo's value as a company asset (doll.) Although the clients in this second incident are more powerful than the businessman of the pilot episode (they are implied to be the actual govt of Greece), I don't see how the failure of one mission is substantially more traumatic than the other--hell, in the pilot, the client himself got grievously injured during the fallout. That has to be more damaging to your reputation than simply failing a theft.
Can anyone explain/rationalize why A is more important than B in one episode but B is more important than A three eps later?
In the pilot episode DeWitt said... that Echo's value trumped the cost of the mission and seemed far more concerned about the Active as an asset than about the cost to the reputation of the Dollhouse by Echo's failure. Boyd had to argue with his two bosses about the importance of fulfilling the "mission" even though circumstances had changed for the worse. Note: the mission in this case was retrieval of a kidnapped child.
In episode 1x04, the Dollhouse is faced with an almost identical situation: Echo is caput and the engagement has been compromised. Note: the mission in this case is the theft/re-theft of a historical artifact. But unlike last time, DeWitt is visibly distraught over how the failure of the mission affects "the reputation" of the Dollhouse--success or failure is more important than Echo's value as a company asset (doll.) Although the clients in this second incident are more powerful than the businessman of the pilot episode (they are implied to be the actual govt of Greece), I don't see how the failure of one mission is substantially more traumatic than the other--hell, in the pilot, the client himself got grievously injured during the fallout. That has to be more damaging to your reputation than simply failing a theft.
Can anyone explain/rationalize why A is more important than B in one episode but B is more important than A three eps later?
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Date: 2009-03-08 01:55 pm (UTC)I also thought that Boyd had to argue with them to allow Echo to complete her mission in the first episode because they were embarassed by her failure not worried about her health. They didn't have faith that she could complete the mission but Boyd did.
My reading of things could be completely wrong, of course. I do watch the show with a two year old running around, so maybe I missed some of the finer points. :-)
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Date: 2009-03-09 04:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-03-11 06:27 am (UTC)I think it was that, had Echo failed in the pilot, she would have failed as Eleanor Penn, so it would have been a mission failure, but not necessarily the Dollhouses fault. in this case, however, an Active lost its imprint in the middle of a mission, meaning that their technology, which they relied on, failed. In one case, it would have been a hit, but one that could be acceptable, whereas the other threatened their reliability on every level.
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Date: 2009-03-11 06:31 am (UTC)