Blog 9: Dollhouse Prospectus

I have chosen to write my prospectus on an episode from Dollhouse that regards religion.  After watching the episode “True Believer”, I have realized that Joss Whedon has only brought up the subject of religion once, and that one time was a full episode.  Whedon implies that religion is a bane on the human advancement; that although following anything blind is not intelligent, he attempts to show that following religion will leave you with nothing but an empty shell of yourself.  This can be shown by the one scene in the episode where Eli, a cult follower completely consumed by the works of upper beings, chooses not to leave a fire thinking if it is God’s will then let it be.  He is the example of blind faith.  Where as in the episode Echo, who has an imprint of another blind follower, realizes that no matter circumstance, there is free will of choice and actions; Echo saves Eli.  This could symbolize the relationship between religion and science.  Echo, being a doll, has her whole world completely created by science.  Another instance where Whedon mocks the virtues of religion; when he has the leader of the cult, a crazed lunatic that has escaped from prison, tell all of his followers that if they stay in the fire and if God sees them worthy then they will be saved.  He placed none of his actions in his own hands; leaving nothing buy blind faith to save him, which it didn’t.