if you can get through all the skeevy stuff for which there's no explanation

The problem is that there are explanations and they're handled terribly. Maybe the show does get better as it goes along, but the premiere is one big giant "have my cake and eat it too"-fest. ("Look at my sexy sexy human trafficking victims! I obviously respect them as human beings even as I take away their agency and their clothes!")

The problem is that there are explanations and they're handled terribly.

In the first episode? Dang. I want to give Joss points for effort, but when you blow up your microwave trying to cook a turkey in it, the destruction isn't really worth the effort, you know?

Is this the Dollhouse thread? I thought it was minearverse but i can't remember what we consensed om.

eta: I'll just x-post. Day to Day review of Dollhouse (not all that great but fun to listen to)

Uh oh-

Robert Pattinson, beware: The CW is planning to air a vampire series of its own. The new pilot is titled 'Vampire Diaries,' and is about a woman who can't decide between vampire brothers, according to Variety. 'Diaries' will be co-written by Kevin Williamson of 'Dawson's Creek' fame.

Well, I suppose if nothing else it's appropriate for this sort of show to suck, given the subject matter...

And I know that I will at least watch the pilot. I also know that it will be crap, but the question is- will it be craptastic?

The short synopsis is giving me flashbacks to a spectacularly bad long form Buffy fanfic I read about a decade ago.

and I wonder -- do they mean brothers who were vamped, or like "sire-brothers"

I know that I will be watching the pilot. Just in case.

We can only hope for craptastic.

I've seen some Dollhouse, I actually quite like it. It's a fun show. I mean, it's a fun human trafficking show, but still. It's creepy as fuck, but so was The Inside, and I loved me some The Inside.