Dollhouse (merge please sutty or LoLth)

fisgon

Intrigued by this show now, after I nearly gave up on it after episode two, which was just laughable. It's on the Sci-Fi channel, so maybe not many have seen it, though I get the impression people are watching shows on-line and so may have caught it.

It's another Joss Whedon creation, and am glad it has turned out to be watchable, at least, after a terrible start. About an underground organisation that programmes and reprogrammes 'dolls', people who have volunteered five years of their lives to this company and are blank slates, imprinted with new personalities on demand for rich clients who have specific needs or desires. not all kinky, but some.

It still involves a large suspension of disbelief, but has introduced a mole into the organisation who is programming the dolls with messages for an FBI agent who is after the dollhouse. Ludicrous, but actually fun, with some very low level moral questions raised too, amid all the sci-fi stuff and action. It's no Buffy, but entertaining nonsense nonetheless (despite Eliza Dushku, is she the worst actress on TV?)

Mr E

It has quite a cult following here on boards. After a VERY ropey start, it found its feet around episode 5 or 6, and was great fun after that (with one or two blips).

Dollhouse discussion is better suited to the Joss Whedon forum...

fisgon

Thanks for letting me know, it's not obvious where to find it on the main tv list. ~Actually, wait a sec, it's in Sci-fi, and not television, isn't it. Ok, ta.

fisgon

basquille wrote: »

Merged UK-airing-related 'True Blood' threads.

Actually, you seem to have merged a thread that I began about the show Dollhouse with this one, which is on True Blood. I started the Dollhouse thread here, not realising there was a whole Joss Whedon forum in the Sci-fi section. It looks a little incongruous, with a couple of messages about a whole different, unrelated show in the middle of a discussion on True Blood. Maybe it can be rectified?

Basq

Moved to Joss Whedon forum as a new thread.

Perhaps watty of LoLth can merge it with the existing one as I can't.

fisgon

basquille wrote: »

Moved to Joss Whedon forum as a new thread.

Perhaps watty of LoLth can merge it with the existing one as I can't.

Thanks for moving it, though I don't think it's really worth it, they've been talking about this show there for a while now. What I meant was that it could be extracted from this thread, it looks a bit random, a few messages about Dollhouse in the middle of a True Blood thread. I assume that the merger was a mistake, originally.

fisgon

Just watched the latest installment of Dollhouse on Sci-fi, boy did that suck, like a bad episode of Murder She Wrote. Echo was given the personality of one of DeWit's dead friends, and went about finding her killer.

ED just seems to get worse as an actress, I'd say the BuffyBot would have done a more convincing job. I don't know who was worse, her or the actor playing her toy-boy husband. The series narrative seems to be rambling a bit, without a real direction, the situation and some of the characters have a lot of potential, but it just hasn't been realised. Though i suppose that anyone on this forum who has seen the whole series already knows this.

(Did like the interlude where Topher created a little friend for himself out of Sierra, for nothing more naughty than playing lazerquest with. That's what I mean, there's always something to keep the interest, despite Wooden Girl herself.)