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Originally posted by Telos:
So I am a philosophy student and almost all my friends are philosophy students, so I tend to see philosophy everywhere. But Dollhouse is, to me, dripping in philosophical implications. However, I think I may be reading to much into one line in "Stage Fright." I would like your opinion on whether I am stretching the material here.
The diva, when wangsting, said something like "God gave me this voice, but he forgot to make it mine." Before this she had been describing her life and situation in melodramatic terms ironically analogous to how Echo's life literally is. Then she dropped that line which made my jaw drop.
In Christian philosophy the Logos is the Word, and the Word is Logos.
Voice. The voice is the medium of words, as the mind is the medium of reason. She might have said "ability to sing," but it ammount to the same thing. And since the Word is Logos, and Logos is the rational movements of the Soul (to oversimply) it seems that Echo has the exact same thing.
"God" (Topher) gave her the "voice" (mind), but he did not intend for it to be hers.
Now here is where Echo differs from the Diva. Echo, by my theory, MAKES it hers.
Gorram, something else just occured to me. The whole idea of a Word Echoing. The Logos Echoing on what is meant to be a void, a blank slate.
Anyway, I have been rambling in what I meant to be an orderly presentation (I am not good at simplification. Things get jumbled).
BTW, anyone here familiar with Levinas? I am only a little, but aspects of Dollhouse keeps reminding me of bits of his metaphysics.

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