Writers: Tara Butters, Tracy Bellomo, and Mechele Fazekas
Grade: B
The short and sweet: most of this episode makes no sense and kind of sucks.
So Boyd was… what, exactly? Trying to bring about the end of the world because… someone had to do it? And he wanted to make an antidote so that he and his “family” could rise from the ashes and rule the world? Or something like that? It’s all ridiculous, and not even in a cool, campy way.
I’m supposed to believe that Boyd machinated almost everything we saw? I get that there’s some irony and dark humor in the fact that “Boyd” played his sanctimonious role so well without being imprinted, but the story just doesn’t seem to hold up under scrutiny, and Boy’d ultimate plan and motivations are too muddy to fuel a satisfying story.
There’s also the fact that this group of “heroes” kind of look like morons for not saving some of the spinal fluid antidote or stealing the formula for it… contingency plans, you idiots!
Other Stuff
-I sensed no character continuity between the various versions of Clyde Randolph. They all felt like different people. Was that the point? Same base persona, but Dollhouse technology was able to warp him so drastically?
-Enver is, once again, a fabulous mimic. There were moments where, if I hadn’t been looking at the screen, I wouldn’t have known he wasn’t Fran Kranz.
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