Alpha , the multiple - personality villain on Joss Whedon ’s Dollhouse , believe he ’s a god , and he wants to promote Echo to his grand level , Alan Tudyk explained on a group discussion call with newsman . Minor spoilers onward .
The way Tudyk explicate it , Alpha “ has ascended , in his mind , to a divine place . ” Alpha used to be a Doll , just like Echo or any of the other programmable multitude in the Dollhouse . But he had a “ composite event , ” and now he has the skills and personalities of 43 different people . Now that Alpha has capture Echo ( in last Friday ’s episode “ Briar Rose ” ) he wants to fulfil the last stage of his program , which is making Echo like him — fractured and crazy , but also advance — before they go off on their world - domination spree . ( And I , for one , would view an intact season of Alpha and Echo trying to rule the world . Although I ’m not sure if Tudyk imply “ world supremacy ” literally or metaphorically . )
“ I love how ‘ Briar Rose ’ ends , ” says Tudyk . With the “ kip Beauty ” theme , you knew someone was going to kiss Echo at the conclusion , so “ I ’m glad it ends with Alpha kiss her . ”
So I asked Tudyk if Alpha is n’t , in some sense , right about being godlike . Or at least , the next step in human evolution . And he said that Alpha has the power to be godlike , in one sense , but all of his amazing ability come with a lot of baggage :
When you ’re downloading a bunch of the great unwashed , you ’re downloading view and experience . Somebody can go through one experience and have one conclusion about it , and another person can go through that experience and have a dissimilar determination . Somebody can become clear up , and somebody else can become a villian . I think he charter the wrong lessons from his download experience . He is certainly evolved , but i do n’t know . The swine flu is development , is n’t it ? In a way , it ’s an development of flu .
I also ask if Alpha really believes the hooey Stephen Kepler was saying , about how there would be no more humans in 200 years ’ time , and the Dollhouse was the future . Or was that just his Kepler persona being wacky ? Tudyk says he imagine Alpha really does believe that stuff , and in the populace of the Dollhouse — or even our earth — it pull in a lot of sense . “ The cosmos will laugh and laugh and shake its os , ” Tudyk quoted Alpha . But Alpha also believes that even if the human race is gone in 200 years , he ’ll still be there . “ Alpha is a Supreme Being . He is forever now . He has the ability to live forever ” — because he can download himself into another body .
Tudyk says he had a marvelous time playing the Kepler part , with all the slapstick action and uneasy buddy - comedy stuff and nonsense with Tahmoh Penikett — even though Kepler claimed he hated buddy - cop motion-picture show . And in Friday ’s episode , he ’s only playing Alpha , and it ’s “ rich ” to get to fiddle a villain like that . You ’ll see the toll that hear to carry 43 personality demand on Alpha , and you ’ll commence to see some of his unlike personalities derive out . “ We all have internal monologues , different voices that chime in each day . He has a small more difficultness . It take some effort to maintain order . ” Alpha will say something , then contradict himself , then say something slightly dissimilar but sort of the same .
And he says the fact that Kepler ’s pose are so similar to Topher ’s was not an accident , “ in a human beings where personalities can be uploladed and downloaded and you may be a composite personality . ” We ’ll see some flashback to Alpha ’s clip as a Doll , and we ’ll see him interacting with Topher during those flashback .
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Is one of Alpha ’s personalities Steve the Pirate ? You ’ll just have to tune in and find out , say Tudyk .
Alpha may or may not make it through Friday ’s episode , says Tudyk — although he already hint , in another interview , that Alpha would have a role in time of year two .
If any other Whedonverse actor had played Alpha , Tudyk thinks it should have been Simon Helberg , who was Moist in Dr. Horrible ’s Sing - Along Blog . Everybody would have believe in the Stephen Kepler part , and you ’d never have seen the Alpha unveil fare .
Tudyk ca n’t really lecture about V , the remake of the Greco-Roman eighties alien invasion show in which he has a role — other than to say it ’s awesome , and Zoic ( which work on Firefly ) is doing the personal effects . He was a fan of the original 1980s show , and he says the new rendering lives up to his memories .
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