I just watched the last episode again with a friend. And, well, this time I quite liked it. The writing is often times pretty good - Caroline's friends appeared as actual friends instead of exposition people for example. The production was the problem for me; the wardrobe for Echo, the clearly rough editing, the red pipe. I still think the episode felt a bit weird though, and the squick without dealing with it absolutely bothers me.
I like books. I just don't want to take on too much. Do they have an introduction to the modern blurb?
Buffy ,'Lessons'
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Kevin - Mar 31, 2009 11:48:32 am PDT #1101 of 5827
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
megan walker - Mar 31, 2009 12:37:25 pm PDT #1102 of 5827
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Which is interesting if you consider Mellie. She remembered her encounter with Paul, which makes me wonder if Mellie is her real personality, but one that has been implanted with suggestions. If the person's real personality is the one they want, why not just plant the suggestions of what they need plus the triggers for "treatment" (or assassination as the case may be).
This is what I thought she was, not implanted with a personality, but that she has a fight-girl trigger.
§ ita § - Mar 31, 2009 12:41:30 pm PDT #1103 of 5827
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
But they needed her to do some specific things--do you think they just asked her?
Vortex - Mar 31, 2009 12:42:37 pm PDT #1104 of 5827
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Maybe she volunteered for some sort of psych experiment to get extra money in college, and this is what happened :)
beth b - Mar 31, 2009 1:12:54 pm PDT #1105 of 5827
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
I can imagine the Dollhouse running at different levels -- If they can do a 'full' wipe and install, I can imagine that they can do an edit. Mellie is close to her real self, but with a trigger.
Anastasius - Mar 31, 2009 3:25:53 pm PDT #1106 of 5827
Anyone else cringe at that opening scene about the drug? That had to be one of the worst attempts at exposition on TV. NS345TZU attacks the blah in the something followed by a monologue about what drugs do. All they had to tell us was: "Very bad drug! Look, it's all neon and green!"
I would assume that for the most part only people so >desperate as to consider suicide a viable alternative >would take the Dollhouse's offer in the first place.
Most of the world still lives in grinding poverty, eats out of trashcans or breaks into houses to get some money for the next fix. If you offer them to take care of their families and a comfortable living in exchange for 5 years of their life I think you could wrap the line of volunteers around NY. Of course a lot them wouldn't be TV pretty.
brenda m - Mar 31, 2009 3:40:21 pm PDT #1107 of 5827
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
I would assume that for the most part only people so desperate as to consider suicide a viable alternative would take the Dollhouse's offer in the first place.
You'd probably be in the ballpark to consider it, yeah. But my own experience with depression tells me it's not so out there to think that there are a fair handful in circumstances where they might jump at the chance to "just not be me anymore." In the real world, that's not an option. In tv world, well, it's not a good option. But even so.
Strix - Mar 31, 2009 3:50:22 pm PDT #1108 of 5827
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Anyone else cringe at that opening scene about the drug? That had to be one of the worst attempts at exposition on TV. NS345TZU attacks the blah in the something followed by a monologue about what drugs do.
Heh. Yeah, I shouted at the TV at that point: "And it's made from ANTIFREEZE!"
le nubian - Mar 31, 2009 4:08:09 pm PDT #1109 of 5827
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Anyone else cringe at that opening scene about the drug?
Yes. That began my downhill spiral with the episode.
-t - Mar 31, 2009 4:53:03 pm PDT #1110 of 5827
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I liked that bit. But I am a known outlier for that sort of thing, I think.
not implanted with a personality, but that she has a fight-girl trigger.
This is what I was hoping was the case, but using her as the Doll guinea-pig for the drug made me think she was more typical Doll than that.