1ofgloriasjudys

Thank you for the feedback! You definitely took away a number of the ideas that I hoped viewers to take away (especially re: collective action). I am impressed considering your unfamiliarity with the show. And I'm glad you asked about Adele, Topher, and the others. Though each has a unique and complicated relationship to the dolls and their eventual resistance, generally they grow to become allies and recognize and regret their contribution to the development of doll technology and its implementation. I think the show does a great job of slowly revealing the structures of power, such that we come to realize that while Adele and Topher have a lot of power in the LA dollhouse they are relatively low on the Rossum Corporation's ladder. Nonetheless, they do have influence, knowledge, and skill sets that are crucial to overthrowing the powers that be. I wanted to show both their complicity in dollhouse's pleasures and their eventual repudiation of it. I thus included personal relations they have with dolls earlier on as well as Topher's eventual breakdown and Adele's role as a leader in the resistance. What I think is so compelling about the show is these characters' various trajectories and transitions, such that we get to experience each of the dolls and dollhouse employees' growing political consciousnesses, which are uneven and tenuous but nonetheless present and ongoing.