In this scene of Eli from the episode “True Believer” in the series Dollhouse, Whedon is trying to make a bold statement. The bold statement he is pursuing is that following anything or anyone completely without your own questions or you own inputs make you just like a doll. This is shown in the scene because the leader of the cult group is a crazed criminal, a crazed criminal that everyone in the group has complete trust for a no one ever defies his word. He wants people to never becomes a sheep and be herded into their stable; he wants people to live. In the show he has shown this with the evolution of Echo, instead of just being the normal doll that listens and follows commands she has started to question her surroundings and in doing she has become a better doll. In the series he has placed a reward with not being a sheep, he has in a way denounced religion. What is the one thing that followers refuse to ask questions about and scrutinize? The answer is religion. Followers refuse to ask and inspect the religion they follow, even when the evidence is right in front of them they are still acting like sheep and go with it. In this episode Whedon is trying to convey an image where religion is a hamper to the growth of the human race.
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