About Dollhouse.
“It’s important to me that every episode has a stand-alone element. This week Echo is this, and she’s trying to accomplish this, but wrapped around that is the stuff we were able to do in the second half of the first season, which is all the workings of the Dollhouse, how it impacts people. … What can she be that will shine some light on who her character is or is trying to become? And how are we different at the end of this episode? What have we felt or touched on or … how have we moved the chess pieces forward? We don’t want to just hit reset, but at the same time, we do want that mission accomplished, that guest star either serviced or killed or whatever. You want every episode to be satisfying in and of itself, and not just a bunch of threads to keep unspooling.” -Joss Whedon
