Dollhouse as an ancestor of Firefly?

[author_by_night]

A user on a Dollhouse community suggested that if you skirted around a few small things, Dollhouse could be seen as a prequel to Fireflyverse. Ironically enough, I was thinking the same thing yesterday.

 

So, Dollhouse watchers: is it just us?

(Spoilers in the comments, obviously.)

Comments

[author-by-night.livejournal.com]

Even the loss and change of the technology in the two makes sense if you look at it from the standpoint of "Well, we know they did this, but they destroyed any trace of how, so lets figure it out for ourselves"

Exactly. And the fact that civilization itself seems to have started all over again on several planets, technology aside - I mean, even Persephone, which is supposedly one of the "advanced" societies, still has dueling and stuff.

[blpurdom.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I've also thought this from the beginning. Between what was done to River Tam to make her a sleeper to the stuff they piped into the atmosphere on Miranda to try to make people "better", which caused the creation of Reavers (the equivalent of which in the two Epitaphs seems to be the "Butchers") it can definitely all read as a prequel to Firefly/Serenity, with the further development of the government being itself like a large, multi-planet Rossum Corporation.

[author-by-night.livejournal.com]

I have this whole idea that the government originally formed to try and avoid Rossums of the future - you know, they told people if there was a government controlling the entire world that would eventually move to space, nothing like what happened would occur again. And yet, they became exactly what they said they were against.

River seems very much like a sleeper. You could even compare Mellie's going crazy when she hears "there are three flowers in a vase... one of them is yellow" (or something) to River's going crazy when she mutters "Miranda."