Dollhouse season premiere liveblog, start!

21:02: I’m impressed we’re getting this kind of insight into Echo (Caroline’s) situation so early on. Not detailed insight, but, you know, insight.
21:03: “I know, actions have consequences.” “What if they didn’t?” Every teenage boy’s fantasy: go!
21:06: One does have to wonder about the people who hire Actives – in a way, they’re the ones putting on an act for someone who doesn’t know she is, too.
21:09: Wow, their mind wiping machine dings like an egg timer.
21:10: I watched this scene online. Cue stilted exposition.
21:12: OH NO not the adorable little girl!

Commercial Break: Thank goodness for limited commercials. Seriously, I thought I was going to cut somebody durning Terminator.

21:16: I do sort of wonder what the Actives’ lives are like between missions. It seems like they exist in a vacuum, in contrast with when they’re active Actives and have imaginary childhoods.
21:18: Was that a blonde-haired Asian woman? Also, why don’t they lock those doors? And lastly, I realize now there are scars all over that looks vaguely like Naomi Watts.
21:19: Pardon me a moment: SHIRTLESS TAHMOH PENIKETT.
21:22: Hey, is that Toa from American Gladiators?
21:23: “We’ll skip any ex-cop heroics if you don’t mind.” Like I said, stilted exposition.
21:25: “Fatherly types. Like Edward James Olmos.” I’m not sure what that nod was. Were they aware BSG would air right after Dollhouse when they filmed this?

21:38: I keep thinking I want to go to bed before BSG… and then I see Tahmoh Penikett and decide it’s worth staying up.
21:41: Hm, Echo seems to have spazzed out. Y’know, just in case you didn’t notice.

Commercial Break: If the reason for the Summer/Eliza doubleteam was not clear before, they now lay it out for you: You are a nerd, and they are your imaginary girlfriends, but only if you watch on Friday.

21:52: Doesn’t it seem smart to screen the personalities you put in these amalgams? You know, for stuff like suicide?
21:53: That man is super creepy.
21:56: Let’s have a shout out for Asians playing name rolls on TV. I think I’m going to like Sierra.
21:58: What the hell is going on here? Are those her parents? Who is the naked man on the coffee table? What? WHAT?