What did you think of Dollhouse?
I liked it -- I mean, I think I did?? It started slow. Red flag in my brain: this is why Firefly got canceled. If you don't start with a bang, you lose people on TV -- and this is starting with a timid, lo-energy conversation in an office.
It cut to a motorcycle chase. Good intentions, but not as good as it should have been....
The first half didn't seem like a Joss Whedon show at ALL. then the second half was totally Joss Whedon. The show feels a bit manufactured, like it's something they're getting paid to make, whereas Buffy was something that the actors and writers needed to make, whether there was fame and fortune or not...but it was still a pretty damn good action-adventure 45 minutes of my life. The greater plots feel the most forced of all. But last night, the resolution to the kidnapping and the trauma-that-wasn't-really-a-trauma....damn. All of us - me, Itta, house guests - were shaking when we got up afterward.
(And no, we didn't watch it on Shabbos....thank you, Hulu.)
Sunday, February 15, 2009
A very short review of "Dollhouse"
Labels: buffy, dollhouse, joss whedon, reviews
Posted by matthue at 3:00 PM
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