Joss Whedon is further investigating the idea of the gray scale of moral ambiguity in this season of Dollhouse. This series is interesting to me, because it is a great morality tale of how easy it is for us to forget our moral reference as we cheer on the butt kicking Echo who can be imprinted with any skill or knowledge with a special "treatment" in Topher's chair.
FBI agent Ballard, who so tirelessly fought to expose the Dollhouse is now... working for them. In fact in this episode he is the customer, and is having Echo marry a arms dealer in order to get evidence he was not able to gather during his FBI career. I wonder what kind of wedding invitations went out for this one?
Considering the Dollhouse is basically a souped up whore house, I still have a huge problem with the premise. The writers chip away at these objections by making the handlers (pimps) likable characters in their own right and with the sop that the dolls all signed upfront contracts knowing what they were going to be doing.
In the first episode of season 2 (Vows) we see Echo retaining more of her myriad imprinted personalities, and seeming to remember more details of her total sum existence. There is also a very interesting personality struggle going on with Dr. Saunders, who has discovered that she is in fact a doll who the Dollhouse imprinted with medical knowledge after she had been attacked and scarred by Alpha. She has to go through "finding herself" as a made up personality and has a love hate relationship brewing with Topher, who hand created her personality to be unlike the other dolls in order to be an effective doctor.
