It looks both entertaining and problematic. I saw echoes of "Anne" in there, and will no doubt watch and critique.

I think I need someone to define the word squicky.

I'm curious, a lot of the potential squick has been linked with feminist concerns, which I get -- and I also know that everyone is speculating on a thing they haven't seen, so I'm not even asking this as someone who knows exactly what the what is -- does it lessen your speculative squick at all knowing that the Dolls are both male and female? Just curious.

I'm curious to know what people found squicky. For me, it was the dude who wanted someone to pretend to love him. * Oh and the Papyrus font.

* Not that that is an unexpected development, given the premise of the show but it's still my least favorite part of the concept.

That didn't squick me at all because it seems like it's the first place most people would go when given the option. It would be more odd to ignore it.

does it lessen your speculative squick at all knowing that the Dolls are both male and female?

Mine is an equal opportunity squick.

does it lessen your speculative squick at all knowing that the Dolls are both male and female?

Like Kristen, my squick is equal opportunity. (I also don't like the Papyrus font. [That is, I don't like it being used in the trailer; I think it's fine in certain print/Web jobs.])

My squick, very specifically, is this: the memory-erasing* of the -- was it "Actives"? -- after they participate in a job that they don't seem to have had any choice in selecting rings very VERY strongly to me of sexual abuse and suppressed memories. Even if the Active is being hired for a non-sexual gig. It's not the content of the gig that squicks me; it's the mind-wiping afterwards. (Do they employ Willow? Cause that would be *neat.*)

*(1) Yes, I understand that the whole point of the show is that Echo starts to remember stuff, that not everything seems to have been securely erased. (Although that, too, rings of recovered memories, and I'm going to say right now that I don't want to start a discussion about whether recovered memories in abuse victims are valid or not.)

(2) I fully realize that my reaction is probably on the extreme end, because of my own baggage.

I also don't like them sleeping in pods under the floor. A little too "Home" for my taste.

It rings very strongly of those things for me, too. I think that's intentional. I hope they treat it with the seriousness it deserves, but I certainly got the impression that all the people doing the abusing were the villains, at least - which is a good place to start, if not everything that needs to happen to make it work.

I'm really looking forward to it now, after that trailer. I hope they spend as much time on the horrible psychology as they do the ass-kicking, actually. But then, I LOVED The Inside for that very reason - the rawness of its exploration of the demons it uncovered, in the killers AND in the heroes. I can sense some of that being possible in Dollhouse, with added superpowers. I hope we see a lot of struggle with self as echo recovers memories, especially painful ones - but maybe that's my love for post-insane Faith speaking.

Oh and I forgot to say:

Sail, your reasoning for not ignoring it would be the precise reason I would choose to ignore it. At least in the beginning, anyway. But that's just me.

And the whole "they volunteered for this" part doesn't help, Steph?