Blog 10 - Dollhouse Episode 5

In this episode, I am going to focus on another member of Dollhouse: Sierra. In the episode, you find out that she has been showing signs of trauma and has not been acting like her "usual" self, that being of the normal doll. As the episode goes on, we find out that Sierra's handler, Hearn, has been raping her. This was accomplished by an operation initiated by Langton, who happens to be Echo's handler. Throughout a series of events, Sierra gets her justice and Hearn is killed.


This episode reminds me a little bit of Law and Order: Special Victims Unit, which is one of my favorite shows to watch. In SVU there are lot of rape cases, and as exciting as these types of shows are exciting and makes you sit at the edge of your seat, it also makes you realize how sick some people really can be. It is after I realized that some of these rape cases actually happen in real life that I really became scared and in shock. It really does amaze me how some people can be so violent and disrespectful to others. It is interesting that this episode uses a doll to be a victim of rape. If Dollhouse's mind swiping capabilities are so great, how is it possible that even if you memory is wiped clean of all the rape that Sierra has been experiencing still show through? This brings me to the conclusion that the memory swiping system really isn't all that it claims to be, and that the flaws in the system are there for a reason: people are entitled to their memories and should not and cannot be wiped clean of them.