You know... I grew up with a steady diet of musicals, and yet soaps STILL manage to stretch my suspension of disbelief.

EVERY soap has a former prostitute. And there is always a situation where a former client comes to town and wants to rekindle. And usually there's come element of blackmail involved.

Kim, Kate, Billie, Eve, who hasn't been a former prostitute? I think Nicole was only a former porn star though. But she does have a husband who came back to town and is threatening blackmail, so maybe that counts. BTW, Days has had awesome Bo/Hope flashbacks lately showing an impossibly young Kristian Alfonso and Peter Reckell.

EVERY soap has a former prostitute.

Bobbie Spencer!

So, we talk Dollhouse here, right?

Right.

I'm sorry if I'm about to repeat something someone said earlier, or if it's obvious for everybody, but I only recently started reading this thread, and didn't read the whole 1000 posts that were here before.

A couple of weeks ago I had one of my everlasting discussions with my dad about The Way Youngsters Are Brought Up These Days. I tried to explain him something, and I failed. I tried to convey the feeling I get a lot of times, how one should always be 100%, shining and happy; act the way people expects you to act, and always be available for them with the "right" answer.

I think it's ridiculous, stressful way of living. I think it's a service industry way of living, and Lord knows I'll suck badly at this kind of industry, so having a life according to its logic? NSM. If there's anything that keeps me semi smiling when I answer the phone with a bad mood, as I wrote in somewhere in Natter, is that being nice usually means that I'll understand what they want from me and get rid of them faster. Yes, there's also the thing where it's not the person's fault he/she caught me with a bad mood, and that I mostly find good mood infecting. But I'm not always right, neither good, nor nice. I'm not always playing by the rules, not even the ones I've been known to act upon. And the reactions I get by being true to myself without the "would you like fries with that?" attitude are sometimes overwhelming.

But I'm drifting.

I tried to point to my father that in almost every second of my life when I'm around other people, I'm basically acting the way I think they want me to act and to respond, to some level, and I hardly think I'm the only one. It makes things smoother, faster. Keeps society in order.

So this is, from the little I understood about the story, what Dollhouse for me; standing up to the way others' see you. Being true to yourself, even if you have no clue who are you; And building an identity in this service industry judgmentally world.

Just wanted to write that.

Just wanted to write that.

I'm glad you did, Shir. It will be interesting to see if that what Dollhouse ends up being about, at least meta-wise. I wasn't seeing it that way, really, but I wasn't getting the Dollhouse love either. This makes it more intriguing than what I've seen so far.

libkitty, I'm not sure anyone is in love with Dollhouse at this point. Lust maybe, because of the potential but we don't know her well enough to love her yet.

Well, there are the "save Dollhouse" people. Granted, that's basically "I loved you before I ever knew you," which probably qualifies for a DSM code, but creepy love is still love. I guess.

are we guaranteed a certain number of Dollhouse episodes? Since Drive broke my heart I'm afraid of commitment.

No, they could cancel it halfway through the episode and run a half hour of America's Funniest Abortions.

Seriously. There's no guarantee.

How many episodes will be in the can by the time it premieres?