Dollhouse premiere - "Who does she think she is?"

Going into watching this show I had pretty low expectations. I was watching it more for something to do since I am really sick and stuck in the house but ended up enjoying it. I don't know if I will continue watching, but it was worth experiencing.

So here is the premise. There are these people called actives who have their minds erased so that they have a clean slate and can be turned into different types of people. The actives are regularly reprogrammed to become a specific person. For instance, they can be an assassin, a dominatrix, a teacher, whatever. What is more interesting is that they are not only programmed to know what to do, but the actives are given memories and personalities based on other people's real memories and personalities. The people in charge of the operation call themselves humanitarians but they also acknowledge that if anyone even found out about what they do they would go to jail.

Echo, played by Eliza Dushku, is the main character. We learn early in the episode that this sort of lifestyle makes it difficult to form relationships. Also, as you watch the show and see the people who live in the "dollhouse," which is where the "treatments" happen, they act like robots. They cannot think for themselves and show no emotion.

I won't go into too much detail about the premiere episode in particular, but I will mention this: Throughout the episode we see that there is someone on the outside who suspects that this dollhouse exists. He seems to be a cop of some sorts and when he tells other people about it, they do not believe such a place is real. As the episode ends, we are shown a video recording of Echo before she became an active. She is graduating college and talking about what she wants to do with her life, which consists of a pretty long list. She says, "I want to do everything, is that too much to ask?" For someone who wants to do everything, her life as an active makes this possible. But I have a feeling she did not become an active by choice. But how cool must it be for an actress to get to play so many different roles on a television show?

So what did you think? Did you watch the premiere? Will you continue to watch?

If you want to see a one minute recap of the first episode, you can go here. Who knows, maybe your interest will be peaked.