The Futon's Critic reveals how ME is addressing at least two of the concerns that people have had...
1.
Some of the Actives/Dolls have roles they repeat. They specifically mention that one Active/Doll specializes in personal assignments. That would imply that others do not. Which means that some, at least, are not (just) prostitutes.
2.
There is a time limit to being a Doll, five years. Which means that they are tiptoeing around the slavery issue. I presume that they have some method of guaranteeing the Actives/Dolls that they will be 'under' for five years, rather than forever, because otherwise who would sign up?
Those two rules help constrain some of the concerns. Not that there will not be exceptions, or that the issues will not be raised or not challenged, but it is starting to put boundaries...
CaBil,
1.
They've taken that bit from the casting calls, which mentioned that one of the dolls (now introduced in episode 2) does personal assignments rather than, like, crime.
2.
The five year thing is questioned even in the pilot. I wouldn't believe anything the Dollhouse people say. They're one part evil fuckers, one part misguided.
The thing
does read creepy. Knowingly creepy. Also, fun.
They're reshooting the pilot now so it might get jumbled about from what people have seen. Certainly the intro has been rewritten from when TFC saw it.
[link]
Campaign to get
The Inside
released on DVD.
Ah, Little Virgil Webster and his poseable action figures. Want.
I have been pushing the Inside shamelessly since November and this ammunition helps.
Don't you just hate it when you're watching
Superbad
and that chick who plays Jules is so cute and you know you know her from somewhere so you look her up on the imdb and it turns out you know her from "Drive"?
yeah, me too.
I was there! I would also like to point out that the flier from the comic book store mentioned his excellent work on Buffy. Unfortunately the clip show left that out.
Hee.
Did anyone ask him about that classic Xander episode?
