Blog 2: Dollhouse Episode 1

After much of my night to find the first episode of Dollhouse online I finally gave up and bought the stupid season.  I watched the first episode of season 1 titled “Ghost”, in which the only investigator of the Dollhouse corporation states:

Paul Ballard: ”If you have everything, you want something else. Something more extreme. Something more specific. Something perfect.”

To me this statement is true for all persons in the world; we all want what we can’t get.  It is strictly human nature to yearn for an object or life that is unobtainable by normal means.  This quote is in regards to all the billionaires in the show; that even when you have everything and can get anything; there is still something inside of you that wants even more.  That “thing” is the persons intuition at striving for perfection, because although people can say “I am not perfect” (like in corny movies or bad television), they never truly want to believe it.  There is always that lust to become even better, the ambition to keep on improving on yourself until you reach the never-ending goal.  However there is never this perfection, there is always a past; a past that can not be cleared away.

Echo: “You ever try to clean an actual slate? You always see what was on it before.”

Just like in the show, one can never fully clear the past, one can never get over traumatic events.  Although there may be periods that you “forget” about it; it is never fully wiped.  Instead it resurges ever so often to bring you back into the fact that; one can never reach perfection.