I'm still 100% squeeful, but I can see where you're coming from. Definitely I'll be interested to see how much we're supposed to be rooting for Echo, because I think there's room for more than one perspective in the show. Echo/Caroline is a fairly straight-cut goody-goody - but so was Paul, supposedly. One of my favourite things about Epitaph One was the implication that Caroline quite possibly left DeWitt and Topher with bullets in their brains when she 'rescued' all the dolls. And in Needs I think we're supposed to trust Dr. Saunders that Caroline's desire to free all the dolls is actually very short-sighted (and self-centred, really).

For me it all depends on what direction they take it. Part of me is a bit miffed that Epitaph One is a definite future, but at the same time being told how it all ends (and that ending being dull and cliché) is something I find quite interesting. It's like being told to ignore the 'plot' interest and concentrate instead on everything else that's happening, which I think lends itself to a constant critique of the characters. I feel like, in that sort of context, Echo can't be treated uncritically, because otherwise the show will have cut itself off from two sources of interest, which seems a bit loopy.

Of course, Joss has a tendency to write things that look cleverer than they really are, and it's very possibly it will just be sooper-shiny-Caroline against the mean-nasty-world. But, dammit, after years of the comics he's due something decent...

Or, in other words, *bounces*