Why have the camera linger on Bennett's arm if it wasn't meant to be important? Ratings? I'd say because it caused more viewer curiosity ("how'd that happen?") than a spazzed out "DON'T LEAVE ME" girl, which would have looked seriously pathetic in comparison. Especially because Bennett wanted the other lady to leave in the first place so she could do evil things to Echo. It would've been VERY hard to do convincingly. Which yes, is an easy way out, and I'm not excusing it. I'm just explaining one of the reasons it could've been done that way. Besides, we saw the "DON'T LEAVE ME" part in flashback at least 3 times, I think, so even that part was shown often. I bet someone with PTSD would be ticked off at the way that was portrayed too, like that Echo didn't get it at all because "it's not real, it doesn't exist, they're faking or lazy or...." or something.
Also we don't really know that Echo didn't feel all those things. She was rather panicked at the beginning and not that Eliza is a bad actress, but I'm not sure she would've been able to convey the actual panic part convincingly for an extended period of time. And how do you show, on screen, in less than 5 seconds, that someone is no longer being controlled by a debilitating fear of getting left behind? The guy was trying to kill her, I think anybody would be like "okay, bye now!" by that point. If they wanted her to break off on her own like she did at the end of the episode, she has no choice but to be able to be on her own. No choice.
Though it would've been nice for her to get out of the almost-getting-killed-by-dude predicament WITH the dead arm. You don't need to have a fully functional everything in order to survive.
Dollhouse has shown us repeatedly that they're not just tricking the brain into doing what they want That's true too.
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Date: 2009-12-06 01:48 pm (UTC)Ratings? I'd say because it caused more viewer curiosity ("how'd that happen?") than a spazzed out "DON'T LEAVE ME" girl, which would have looked seriously pathetic in comparison. Especially because Bennett wanted the other lady to leave in the first place so she could do evil things to Echo. It would've been VERY hard to do convincingly. Which yes, is an easy way out, and I'm not excusing it. I'm just explaining one of the reasons it could've been done that way. Besides, we saw the "DON'T LEAVE ME" part in flashback at least 3 times, I think, so even that part was shown often. I bet someone with PTSD would be ticked off at the way that was portrayed too, like that Echo didn't get it at all because "it's not real, it doesn't exist, they're faking or lazy or...." or something.
Also we don't really know that Echo didn't feel all those things. She was rather panicked at the beginning and not that Eliza is a bad actress, but I'm not sure she would've been able to convey the actual panic part convincingly for an extended period of time. And how do you show, on screen, in less than 5 seconds, that someone is no longer being controlled by a debilitating fear of getting left behind? The guy was trying to kill her, I think anybody would be like "okay, bye now!" by that point. If they wanted her to break off on her own like she did at the end of the episode, she has no choice but to be able to be on her own. No choice.
Though it would've been nice for her to get out of the almost-getting-killed-by-dude predicament WITH the dead arm. You don't need to have a fully functional everything in order to survive.
Dollhouse has shown us repeatedly that they're not just tricking the brain into doing what they want
That's true too.