Blog 11: "Epitaph One"

 At the end of the episode Caroline says, “It was playing with matches and they burned the house down.” Are the writers of the show saying the way our technology is progressing is like playing with matches?

                I think this is exactly what the writers of this show are trying to express through their show. Our technology is evolving at such a huge rate that the more time goes by the more dangerous the world is. Technology like that in dollhouse isn’t that big of a fantasy because scientists are already studying ways to store memory on a computer like our brain. They aren’t even only talking about future technology humans have already had enough power to wipe out civilization for quite a while. The message is that when we play with matches we could end up burning everything to the ground.

At the very end of this episode Caroline was in the little girl’s body looking at a picture of herself and said, “I hope we find me alive.” When technology can change memories and the very body a person is in how do we define who that person is?

                I think it is difficult to tell who anyone is because they are constantly changing bodies and gaining or losing memories. In this show they seem to define a person by both their original body and the content of their memory. So if they see someone they know imprinted with some else’s memories then they would look at it as the person they know, but someone else is controlling their body. The other perspective is if it’s a body that the person doesn’t recognize, but has the memory of someone they do then they consider the person they know. Really the only way you can define a person though in this show is by the content of their memory.