It sounds like the show really turned into being more about Gene than Alex, as it went along.

Then I will continue watching Dollhouse, instead, for unknowable reasons. I think the twists will all be fairly predictable (considering the premise makes it so any and everyone on the show could be an Active, so you start suspecting everyone of being an Active immediately, which means I'll probably be right about at least a few of them actually being Actives, just because I think everyone is), but there's this odd compulsion to watch, in a show that you know will try to pull predictable twists, to see if it will indeed pull them.

I suspect I'll be marathoning it weekends with my sister.