Clues & Eastereggs - 3.09 "Marionette"

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There are a few Whedon references that warrant mentioning, so kudos for the vibe.

What I DID find Whedonesque was the case. It was like a combination of two episodes that come to mind:

"Waiting in the Wings" Angel, Season 3 - Possessive stalker mystically traps the lead Ballerina (Summer Glau) to perform the same exact dance performance every night for him.

Speaking of Whedon, Summer Glau and creepy ballet, another example comes to mind.

The first is from Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, The Demon Hand. Cameron, the soul-less Terminator from the future sent back to protect John Connors, who allowed her ballet teacher and brother to die even after she promised to help them, dances a perfect ballet in front of her mirror in her room at the end of the show.

Sarah VO: Science now performs miracles like the Gods of old. Creating life from blood cells, or bacteria, or a spark of metal. But they're perfect creatures. And in that way, they couldn't be less human. There are things machines will never do. They can not possess faith. They can not commune with God.

Sarah VO: They cannot appreciate beauty. They cannot create art. If they ever learn these things, things, they won't have to destroy us. They'll be us.

The perfect ballet performed by a Terminator is creepy, because it the Terminators threaten to replace us, yet imitate the beauty of ballet perfectly.

(Summer Glau also used her ballet skills in the Serenity movie (based on Firefly TV series) in a fight scene where she defeats about 30 people in hand to hand combat).