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I thought last night's ep was fabulous, the first time I really enjoyed the show instead of being frustrated by certain things. LOVED the shock that Dewitt was Miss Lonelyhearts.

So I was under the impression that the chip was giving Ballard FALSE information to keep him AWAY from the Dollhouse. First, the plant in Echo told him the Dollhouse was "UNDERGROUND" but last night Echo nearly pushed Dominick out a window that was very high ABOVE ground. So that's clearly the wrong information Ballard received. Then, when Mellie told him to investigate the Dollhouse's "purpose" that seemed to me another method of stalling him and sending him in the wrong direction. Whether the person implanting the chip was Dominick or not, I think they are messing with Ballard instead of helping him.

I wasn't fooled by the Ivy red herring just because I write and read mysteries and I'm well-aware that if they want the audience to suspect someone, it's almost always NOT that person. They wanted the audience to suspect Ivy and the doctor (because they showed quick cuts of both of them right after Topher found the chip). Therefore, I'd narrowed it down to Dominick very early because he was really the only one left.

I really liked that Echo was waking up a lot more as a Doll. I think they needed an episode like this earlier because the premise promised Echo was kind of becomming self-aware again (based on all the descriptions I'd read before the show first aired) and we hadn't really seen that until now. (I don't count last week's when they were forced to "wake up.") I'm starting to care about her a lot more now that I know who she is. I think the show started wrong. They tried to do a "typical episode" pilot when I think they really needed to use the "set up" pilot strategy. (The difference is in a typical episode, there's no set-up, the characters are already involved in their world and interacting with one another and the pilot gives an example of what each episode should be like. A "set up" pilot is when the characters enter their new world along with the viewer. So a set-up pilot would have shown Caroline transforming into Echo and going on her first engagement. I think that would have been a lot more interesting and would have allowed the viewer to get to know Caroline first and maybe care for her. So basically I think the show took a wrong direction right from the start and only now are we starting to get the emotional investment we should have had from the get go).

I have to say, I groaned when I saw the preview for next week and how it's back to normal. I've been enjoying the last few episodes when it went off-formula a lot more than the engagement-of-the-week premise.