It’s a Love/Hate Thing: Why Dollhouse‘s Echo Matters
Posted in Back Off Man I'm A Feminist, Feminism, Science Fiction, Television |By Catherine Coker
We hate Echo.
Well, many of us do. Because she’s played by Eliza Dushku (who we didn’t have a problem with as Faith, or as Buffy in Faith’s body, come to think of it), or because she is so very much a FOX network construct (iddy-biddy dress and shiny red motorcycle), or because she’s really the misogynist wet dream Joss Whedon never dared to have otherwise (Yeah, I’ve got nothing on that one; anti-Whedonists are a class all their own). When Dollhouse was canceled, the anger wasn’t at television executives it was at Echo.
Why?
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