Even if the show progesses. I'm having trouble seeing a prolonged series. Maybe a BBC type of thing where you know the show will have x number of episodes, and you can really shape the arc of the show. Somehow, Dollhouse is reminding me Dark Angel. Also, Prison Break. Where can it go? She becomes self-aware and does what? Refuse to be mind wiped upon returning from a mission? Keep a video diary? After the wipes, the agents are practically labotimized. I can't imagine an insurection.
So they sign a contract to join. How do they quit? Also, I'm curious about the scars on Fred's face.
So they sign a contract to join. How do they quit?
That's one of the aspects I find interesting in theory (I'll wait to see if it proves interesting in execution): presuming they're joining willingly, the Actives are not just signing away their free will, but signing away their memory of having free will.
The make or break for me will be the nature of the missions.
This will make a big difference. I'm in for long enough to see where it is headed.
I fear for the future of the show. Many of us really want to like it and are struggling. The viewing masses that aren't trying hard to like it may not give it a second chance.
My mother, who is more of the viewing masses than I am, really liked it, fwiw.
The promos didn't squick me, I found them more funny in a whatever you have to do to keep the shows on the air kind of way.
I didn't think it was as bad as others seem to think. It did feel like they crammed a whole lot of info in there for the sake of getting it in the first episode.
A problem I'm having is that with the actives being so devoid of personality, it's hard to connect with them. It's really going to be on the supporting cast to pick up the slack. Problem is, I wasn't vibing off of any of them except Ballard. Didn't care much for Adelle, Boyd or Topher.
Am I wrong that the promo is NOT under the control of the show? That is Joss can't veto it. Eliza can't refuse to participate in it. Well, Eliza could refuse, but she'd be in violation of her contract and it would cost her a shitload of money. Which given that this sort of stuff is in millions of commercials would be a hell of a cost for not much gain.
Like, they don't have interoffice PHONES? Handler!guy had to do the dramatic run down the hall to stop Tech!nerd from mindwiping Echo?
But then they had the misdirect where Handler!Guy gets there and Echo hasn't been wiped. I assume that was because a call
had
been made.
So they sign a contract to join. How do they quit?
Didn't they say something about a five year (or some fixed term) contract?
I wonder what happens when/if they are killed in the field?
Didn't they say something about a five year (or some fixed term) contract?
That was my impression.
But, given that they're not exactly paragons of ethical-ness (c.f., running the Dollhouse), and if the Actives are mind-wiped, how would the Actives know their 5 years was up? They're relying on the higher-ups to hold to their contract (which isn't legal anyway), and, like I said, the higher-ups aren't big with the ethics, so -- it could theoretically be an infinite "contract."
And *that* is a concept that I find interesting.
