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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I liked DH bc at its best it went there with those questions
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Echo's rant "I hate Caroline as much as you do. She's my worst enemy. She's trying to kill me and take my place"
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(for ppl w sensitivity to deadnaming it's an interesting recurring theme)
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Or like the Attic trying to present itself as benevolent
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"You're not in the Dollhouse anymore. This is a medical facility. We use your *real* names"
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the Attic is a good metaphor for how repeatedly forcing ppl to "face" trauma isn't always therapeutic
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