Interestingly, in that essay, there is probably not a single point the author makes about "Dollhouse" that I disagree with.
I still don't want to go back watching the show.
I dismissed "Dollhouse" because it bores me when it's not creeping me out. :-/ No matter how much social value it might have, it just wasn't worth it to keep going there every single week. I'll endure a lot of stuff for a show I love (oh, God, you have no idea how rocky my relationship with "Heroes" was from about 3x03 to 3x14--I almost gave up), but there needs to be something I love enough to endure it for. And on "Dollhouse," there just isn't. It's a world where virtually everything is creepy or depressing, nearly everyone is sick and shitty, and there are no real victories, because at the end of every episode, Echo goes and gets back in the box.
It may be truthful, it may be gritty, it may be the most powerful story Joss has ever told, shedding the most light on the things in this world that most of us wish weren't there.
But frankly, I'd rather watch a show that doesn't make me want to drink until the world stops feeling hopeless.
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Date: 2009-04-23 06:51 am (UTC)I still don't want to go back watching the show.
I dismissed "Dollhouse" because it bores me when it's not creeping me out. :-/ No matter how much social value it might have, it just wasn't worth it to keep going there every single week. I'll endure a lot of stuff for a show I love (oh, God, you have no idea how rocky my relationship with "Heroes" was from about 3x03 to 3x14--I almost gave up), but there needs to be something I love enough to endure it for. And on "Dollhouse," there just isn't. It's a world where virtually everything is creepy or depressing, nearly everyone is sick and shitty, and there are no real victories, because at the end of every episode, Echo goes and gets back in the box.
It may be truthful, it may be gritty, it may be the most powerful story Joss has ever told, shedding the most light on the things in this world that most of us wish weren't there.
But frankly, I'd rather watch a show that doesn't make me want to drink until the world stops feeling hopeless.