worshipping at the joss temple

[calimac]

It took me about six episodes in each of BTVS and Firefly before I became really at ease rambling around with either, so I'm not seriously going to try to review the first Dollhouse.

Except to say that the opening conversation between Echo and Ms. DeWitt, the crisp British woman, sounded just like Faith talking with Gwendolyn Post. Déjà vu, see déjà vu.

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[sartorias.livejournal.com]

I watched 2 Buffy eps last night instead. Mmmmm.

[barondave.livejournal.com]

I'm not going to make a final assessment after one show, but at the moment: Thumbs down. Faith and Spike were two of the characters I liked the least, though not because of the actors necessarily. They aren't the only ones to pop up from other shows. Seeing actors in new roles is fine; I'm glad they have the work. The inertia of a bad script is hard enough to overcome without the added drag of character actors in unfamiliar settings. Again: we'll see.

I have very few "A" shows anymore. The recharge the writers got after the strike seems to have worn off, alas. The Big Bang Theory and 30 Rock are the ones I look forward to, and keep watching 24 and Bones more out of familiarity than excitement. House is just grating and Monk is losing his charm. The Unit has become Mission Impossible. But Medium just started up again, and The Mentalist is growing on me.

But I digress.

[asimovberlioz.livejournal.com]

Gwendolyn Post? Oh, you mean the character played by my former sister-in-law.

Degrees of separation, and all that.

[kalimac.livejournal.com]

Very few? The only TV series I've watched regularly since about 1974 are a couple seasons in the middle of Babylon 5 (which I quit when it got stupid again), the first three or so seasons of Angel (which I also quit), the last 5 seasons of Buffy (which I would have quit had it gone on much longer like that), and Firefly (which died before it could get stupid).

[kalimac.livejournal.com]

And she could have played this part too, with probably more gumption than the actress who actually did.

[athenais.livejournal.com]

I don't understand what the heads of the dollhouse are doing after that first episode. Making money? Changing the world? Trying to get into the Evil League of Evil? Financed by unseen puppet masters so that they are in turn merely dolls of a different order? It made me crazy, along with that awful, awful music in the show.

I'll watch it again, though. I gave up on Firefly after the first episode because it made no sense, after which it apparently became fascinating television, so I'll stick around a little. But I hate the objectification inherent in the idea of a dollhouse. Joss can do better and I hope he will.

[kalimac.livejournal.com]

If the first broadcast episode of Firefly ("The Train Job" - a fast-paced crime caper with a twist ending) strongly disappealed to you, you might not like the rest much either. Like most crime capers, it has plot holes, but the best ones skip over them so fast I don't notice them until afterwards.

[athenais.livejournal.com]

If it wasn't for the terrific Dr. Horrible, I wouldn't bother with Dollhouse.

[kalimac.livejournal.com]

Dr. Horrible was very clever, and I'm glad to have it. But I have some problems with it. Metaphorically it's an inversion of the BTVS metaphor, and that bothers me.