Dollhouse Over And Out
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Dollhouse closes its doors for good tonight, with a followup to last season’s unofficial season finale, the so-called “lost” episode, an outing writer-creator Joss Whedon himself admitted (in an interview last summer) was “an incredibly strange sort of bookend to the show.”
That episode, which posited a Terminator-like end-of-the-world scenario that bore little resemblance to the show Dollhouse fans had come to expect, was set 10 years in the future. A small group of survivors stumbles across an abandoned dollhouse in the middle of a post-apocalyptic landscape. Exploring the ruins further, they realize they may have been responsible for the destruction of their world, in a past life.
It’s an old science-fiction gambit, and recalls the Big Reveal at the end of Planet of the Apes, when Charlton Heston’s character stumbles across the ruined Statue of Liberty and realizes he’s been back on Earth all along.
Tonight’s finale — and it’s the real finale this time — finds Echo (Eliza Dushku) and her Dollhouse colleagues tripping ahead to the year 2020, where they try to restore the natural order of things before humankind becomes extinct. Think of Echo as The Omega Woman, in another words — or, if you prefer, The Last Woman on Earth.
Whedon says he thought to himself, when he made the first finale, “What a great way to go out.” He was bitterly disappointed when it initially didn’t air. (The episode has since been released on DVD.) This time, he could see the end coming — despite its fan following, Dollhouse struggled in the ratings all season — and so he had time to think, knowing that, this time, the finale would air.
“I was so proud of what we had accomplished,” Whedon said, of both the series and the first finale. “I loved that episode, and I loved the performances, from the (new) people we had in the future, and from our regular cast in bits where they all got to play a little something they hadn’t played before.”
Flashing forward to the distant future is a novel way to end a TV series — especially when, by flashing ahead, the whole concept of the series is thrown into question. No casual viewer catching an episode of Dollhouse at random could ever guess that it would end as a cautionary tale about the destruction of humankind.
Dollhouse’s loyal fans may not agree, but Joss Whedon has made peace with the show ending, now it’s finally and definitely over.
“I do not think I have a worry left in me,” Whedon said. “I think I have reached a Zen place. The fact is, I got to tell the stories I wanted to tell. Honestly, I felt like (the first finale) was a hell of a way to go out, even though it was made for very strange reasons.”
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