A call to arms

[exsequar]

Why I Watch Dollhouse

Please, if you've given up on this show, or never gave it a try, please click on that link and have a look around. Listen to the beautiful, haunting music taken right from the show, look at the amazing slideshow brought up when you click on "Friday @ 9/8C", read "Why I Watch" and feel compelled to give this brilliant underdog show a chance.

You can watch the current season of Dollhouse, and the last two episodes of last season, for free on Hulu. If you start with episode 1x11, you may very well be completely sucked in - it's one of the best episodes of anything I've ever seen. (here's a lure: Alan Tudyk!) In fact, PLEASE watch on Hulu, because Fox knows about those views, and our little show is limping along dangerously so every little bit helps.

Please. Please don't let this turn into another Firefly. A brilliant, thought-provoking show, filled with new and sparkling talent, is struggling RIGHT NOW. Please don't come around to it two years from now, when it's too late. Please give Dollhouse a shot.

Thank you. :)

Comments

[darlas-mom.livejournal.com]

"Dollhouse" really made me uncomfortable the first couple times I tried it. :-/ I guess I can try it again, for you, but...don't hate me if I don't get sucked in?

[exsequar.livejournal.com]

Hmm. I think that's kind of the point. To bring us face to face with a really ugly side of humanity, and to question a lot of really comfortable ideas and assumptions. But I would recommend you try 1x11, maybe - it's not an episodic one but rather an in depth look at the guts of the Dollhouse itself, which always makes for the best stories in this show. It's got phenomenal acting and is really squirmy making, but in a totally rockin way.

It's totally fine if it's not your bag! But if you could maybe pull up the latest ep on Hulu and just let it play in the background on mute for an extra number in the ratings? That would be awesome. :D

[darlas-mom.livejournal.com]

Well, I do understand that that's the point. :-) I think that's why it just doesn't work for me. I like questioning those ideas and assumptions in my fiction, I just prefer it when there's more ambiguity to it. Not when the conclusion I'm supposed to arrive at is directly handed to me and I have to think about what I've been told. I like it when the subtext is there for me to pull at and examine and figure out on my own, when the darkness and ugliness is more subtle. I'm more interested in what I can learn about society through what its media accidentally says, not what I'm bludgeoned over the head with, with skull-crushing force. Does that make sense?

But if you could maybe pull up the latest ep on Hulu and just let it play in the background on mute for an extra number in the ratings? That would be awesome. :D

Sure, that I can do. :-) Would you mind doing the same with "Heroes" at some point? I'm pretty nervous about it getting canceled, too. A bunch of people in the fandom are taking it as a foregone conclusion that this season is the last season, and this makes me go D-: