I'm more certain now that it was programmed into her to mislead Helo.

I think I'm too old to relate, but not yet old enough to find it endearing. At this point in my life, I just find it naive and tiresome.

In what role doesn't Sarah Paulson come off as brittle?

Carnaki, I seem to recall from asking girls in the 90s that they had some sort of rubber strip fused inside and they stayed up due to friction.

Silly Buns, that's very sweet of you to warn so adamantly that spoilers are coming, but I think Buffy is considered safe to discuss with abandon at this point, particularly in a Dollhouse thread, since, let's face it, this show is only average and we're all just hanging in because we're all so in love with Joss Whedon.

I've never actually read the comics, so I sort of thought someone might bring that up and prove me wrong. But my point was that the pro-lesbian elements were actually prurient and not progressive, which is why lesbianism was treated differently than male homosexuality. I did forget about Larry, but that barely…

Okay, I'll buy that, not a real doctor.

Why the front-loading is bothersome
So, while we have no true idea yet how long the Dollhouse has been in existence, I'm irritated by how quickly things are developing not from a fan perspective of, "They're giving us too much too soon, where will they go from here? It will HAVE to jump the shark if they keep up this…

Let me catch myself before anyone else does—5th season. And yes, you're probably right that it was meant to be comic relief more than anything, but it injects the unpleasant idea that gay=bad, and that when he becomes firmly one of the good guys, it "fixes" him. Or maybe I'm just wearing my over-sensitive glasses.

Speaking of mushrooms, I liked how when everyone had come down, they had that exact, slightly disheveled, slightly embarrassed, slightly grimey vibe of coming down off mushrooms.

And I agree with you too Magnus.

Oh Carbon Rod, I totally agree with you. Every week, these nerds are going on and on about how Dichen whatever-her-name-is is a better actress than Eliza Dushku, and I'm hoping this will be the episode that disabuses them of this notion.

I know you were joking, A.V. Staff, but I actually do kind of assume Emmy Rossum is evil.

Olivia Williams and Elizabeth Hurley have similar voices.

Oh, and Blah Blah Blah, I think you're totally right. How are we NOT supposed to hate a character who says, "That's just the place I'm at right now"?

I'm so glad we're all on the same page here. I too, eat a lot of tofu, and yet was just like, "Seriously, animals? I mean, they're cute and all, and I suppose I'm anti-fur and anti-animal-testing for shallow shit like make-up, but I just can't get too worked up about it." But maybe whoever said it was right—this…

Oh, also, as for the midwife thing, in some interview, Joss Whedon suggested that in order to keep the Actives brains from getting stuck in a rut, sometimes they are sent off on random assignments—so those people may not have even known she was an active, so we can thankfully stop asking, "Why the fuck would you get…

Your logic seems quite clear, Magnus.

And to back up the whole Andrew ending up "straight" thing, you know who else does too? Lorne.

Hey, on the subject of Andrew, remember how he was gay and in love with Warren, but then in the 7th season had 2 hot ladies on his arms in Italy? That bothered me. Am I the only one who feels that Joss Whedon, for all his feminist cant, may have a much more typical straight-male obsession with lesbianism than he…