September 23 2013
Harry Lennix talks The Blacklist & what happened to Boyd in Dollhouse.
Lennix talks about his new series The Blacklist, along with the twists in his Boyd Langton character on Dollhouse.
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@theonetruebix | September 23, 21:13 CET
Jaymii | September 24, 00:54 CET
1) The flashback with the revelation showed that it was clearly the same character in that body.
2) The disrupter never affected him, again suggesting that at that point, it was still the same person in that body. So it couldn't have been someone transplanted into it that we knew as Boyd.
3) If it hadn't been the same person/body, Caroline wouldn't have recognised him anyway. So the body at least had to be the same one she knew as the cofounder.
It would be hideously complicated to *not* just have it be him playing the part all along. And that's what we saw done and we were fooled, so there's no reason they wouldn't be.
apollo11 | September 24, 02:16 CET
I’m all for twists that are carefully plotted and constructed and that actually enrich the series upon reflection. But this certainly wasn’t one of them and I find it particularly disappointing that a Mutant Enemy production would resort to such lazy writing when I always thought that characters were their strong points. The characters should always come first but let’s face it, by the end of S2 the characters took a backseat to the plot in the mad dash to wrap up 5 year’s worth of storylines in just a handful of episodes. I appreciate that Whedon and Co wanted to give us some closure but it really came at expense to both the characters and the quality of the writing.
So, yeah, the theory doesn't work but I'm really sympathetic to why Lennix needs to try and make sense of the story.
vampmogs | September 24, 02:35 CET
redeem147 | September 24, 03:49 CET
vampmogs | September 24, 03:54 CET
Simon | September 24, 03:58 CET
barzai | September 24, 05:10 CET
One thing about Boyd's unmasking is important - if he really had been the basically-good guy he seemed to be, the end of the hsow, the big counter-consipracy would've been more successful and less painful. Also, it would've robbed Whiskey's self-sacrifice of a lot of its meaning - if he'd really beena good guy, she should've had her own escape palce, amybe an airtight safe room, to wait for him
DaddyCatALSO | September 24, 08:52 CET
It was also strongly implied that Bennett was the only one who could do more complex persona alterations than Topher could ever do with the chair, and even then her Perrin was susceptable to the disrupter. There is though also the odd little bit in one of the S2 Blu Ray extras with Harry stating that it isn't Boyds original body and it isn't the last we've seen of him.
Which again, kind of goes against the show canon and what has been firmly established, and the latter part in particular is clearly wishful thinking since that clip looks to have been during the shooting of The Hollow Men... He can think it, but there isn't a scrap of show canon or even in the Epitaphs miniseries that suggests it or backs it. At all.
I always thought Adele summed it up well - as did he - in THM. Boyd has his own warped logic to him, and there are people who sometimes can do the most brutal and evil things in real life while appearing good and smiling along. Even Hitler loved his wife and his dog. Boyd's a sociopath and a manipulater. He betrayed his best friend Clyde and put him in the Attic, and ultimately sees what he is doing as being for the greater good of himself and those he `cares` about. Just because people wanted him to be inherently a good person... Well, you were manipulated too. ;)
[ edited by apollo11 on 2013-09-24 18:43 ]
apollo11 | September 24, 09:38 CET