Bad Television: Dollhouse with a hint of brilliance
July 4, 2010 Leave a Comment
So we have this fantastic story line for Dollhouse, I must say Joss Whedon is full of great sci-fi. However what makes this truly bad television is it’s written with so many fillers, so much waste your time crap in the middle it ruins those fantastic moments that show at least reliably dished out to it’s viewers.
For a while I was sore that Dollhouse was renewed while the incredible Sarah Connor Chronicles was canceled. My first instinct of course was to check out this show and see why it was considered ‘renewing material.’ I watched one episode…I couldn’t sit through it. A little time passed and I knew maybe it’s time to learn from other peoples mistakes and to maybe learn something from a show I didn’t think I would learn anything from. So I started Dollhouse from season one episode one.
Like I said, it’s bad television not because it’s just written and performed bad, but because it has a solid base, where it could be carried season to season, plus the casting is surprisingly truly enjoyable. It’s down side is it’s fillers, information that does nothing for the story simply there to entice or to grab a channel surfer.
The action, fight sequences, character backdrops all wonderful. I’m even in envy as I write sci-fi and I hadn’t come up with such an in depth idea lol. It’s also very much cliched when it comes to the leading lady an any other female that steps int here. Because they ‘can be controlled’ in a sense they are used for a lot of ‘sexual encounters’ now I get the believability on that as if it was a realistic scenario that is just how it would go. Men would grab a chick he could control and pay millions to have it. However, it was way to cat woman with a whip type stupid and a lot of ‘whoa are they allowed to show that on television’ and ‘what…how did we get here?’ type moments.
It’s a disappointment. I wish someone else would take a hold of that story and show the past writers how to do it! And all the creepy sex scenes…in a way where you’re forced to be a peeping tom, and your eyebrow raises as you’re thinking ‘what the hayyy.’ The next time I dive in to try to force myself to investigate when I’m becoming frustrated more and more each time to just forget it and lose hope that any television show will come full circle..I’m surprised. so then Season on 1 episode 8 – Needs. Which compiles a viewpoint from the inside of dollhouse from multiple angles, the heads of the organization and actives who have awaken and remember they were taken and placed there. You learn actual personalities of not just the lead active ‘Echo’ but also those who are in the background such as Victor, Sierra and November. And we’re thrown back the next episode 9- The Spy In The House of Love and you’re thinking, how do shows like this even get screen time. Just horribly put together and even worse the writing is just awful…aka time wasted of my life. If it wasn’t for me wanting to write the flaws I would have forwarded 40 minutes in to watch Echo kick crazy NCA guy’s *butt and then hear all the great dialogue for the last 15 minutes. 15 minutes…seriously?
Not to mention I saw up so many girls skirts (shots posted throughout more attached at bottom of article) and heard sounds that people should not make…and televisions creations need to be explored. I think people are
Her butt, definitely visible...little fuzzy but no lie that's her butt hanging out of her 'shirt dress' (Season 1 Ep 1)
forgetting filming, writing is an art form…make something of it. Having to cipher through the uncreative stuff to get to the good stuff is just wasting time. give me good stuff all the time. That’s where I will be different. Well, that is if I finish this script I have going…as long as I live long enough.
And some nice screen shots of ‘whoa’ this is tv 14. My 14 year old niece and nephew aren’t allowed anywhere near this.
A few boys get a peep show and some teen girls get to learn ‘beautiful’ is:
I mean seriously this isn’t some Miley Cyrus I’ve just had sex and I’m sexified video nor a beyonce I’ve got it made, sex me video either but tada:
Her butts out, her skirt flies up when she jumps!
However, through all the bad things that had gone one through the two seasons, the last two episodes of the season The Hallow Man and Epitaph Two: Return, were remarkably done on all parts of the complete staff who worked on Dollhouse. Beautifully crafted as a sci-fi flick. The first highlight is it is the only series I’ve ever watched and ended that actually satisfied it’s original viewers, everything came full circle, all questions were answered, all characters had a path to take, or was ended graciously. That alone is a gift in the television world. You don’t have that longing or the feeling that something was incomplete. You can just move on and enjoy past seasons if you’re that dedicated. The second highlight is the brilliance of Joss Whedon and the truly strong cast could finally be highlighted full on, through and through in it’s entirety. And for a moment I was thankful I saw those last two episodes and I’m aware of creators such as Joss Whedon. I just he gets to have one of his ideas beautifully cradled in the hands of great writers, directors and actors who deserve it and are capable and inspired enough to carry it along in a much better manner than what happened with his past creations.
That would be her butt, as skirt flips up and tada 'intimates' exposed
The men seem to remember all their wardrobe pieces
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Life of Series writers from Imdb.
| Joss Whedon | (27 episodes, 2009-2010) | |
| Andrew Chambliss | (17 episodes, 2009-2010) | |
| Maurissa Tancharoen | (17 episodes, 2009-2010) | |
| Jed Whedon | (17 episodes, 2009-2010) | |
| Tracy Bellomo | (15 episodes, 2009-2010) | |
| Tim Minear | (4 episodes, 2008-2010) | |
| Elizabeth Craft | (2 episodes, 2008-2009) | |
| Sarah Fain | (2 episodes, 2008-2009) | |
| Tara Butters | (2 episodes, 2009-2010) | |
| Michele Fazekas | (2 episodes, 2009-2010) | |
| Jane Espenson | (2 episodes, 2009) |
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