Whedon IRL claims to be progressive and consistently backs the concept of societal change
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but the eventual message of both Serenity and Dollhouse is firmly small-c conservative
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in Dollhouse Topher, the scientist in charge of all this, says a wiped personality is unrecoverable
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Ballard, who has no prior knowledge abt this tech, says "You can't erase a soul"
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and the finale has Topher pull a deus ex breakthrough proving Ballard is miraculously right
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which kind of wipes clean all the genuinely interesting moral dilemmas they'd brought up
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what about the mind copying tech as a cure for aging and death
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what about the question of whether artificial personas have a right to live
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what abt ppl who seek out the mind "editing" tech to cure their traumas and debilitating illnesses
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they even bring that up in that selfsame episode w Alpha having "evolved" into a non-cackling serial killer
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what abt the point they brought up repeatedly, that if it's technologically possible it will be discovered
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