I don't like Adelle's new haircut. It makes her look far less scary-authority person and too vulnerable.
Is that maybe the point? After Epitaph One, I think we're meant to be moving towards sympathising with her. This is going to take some hardcore writing to effect, of course. She doesn't seem to have a single sympathetic character trait at the moment.
so...possibly not worth watching if you're mostly TV-avoidant? But, fwiw, I have a real soft spot for the Horatio Hornblower series, in which you can admire Jamie Bamber playing Hornblower's adorably puppyish, heroic (and epileptic) BFF Archie, who, other than possessing (secret) biceps and a conscience, is pretty much the anti-Apollo.
UK TV-avoidant, that is. I love me some American TV. Hmm, maybe I'll see if I can find the Hornblower thing sometime. Bamber is a pretty pretty boy.
Thanks, Fay! (Looks like he's good in that. But it doesn't appear to have aliens, time travel, spaceships or vampires in it, so I'm not likely to love it. Well, unless I missed something in the background, or another episode features the famous late eighteenth-century attempted invasion of Bristol by Martians.)
I think we're meant to be moving towards sympathising with her. This is going to take some hardcore writing to effect, of course. She doesn't seem to have a single sympathetic character trait at the moment.
Yeah, I definitely think she's being written more sympathetically, especially with the line about the Dollhouse helping Rossum's "important research." We're meant to believe she really does have the best intentions.
After Epitaph 1, I'm not sure how much we really can sympathize though.
It got the lowest ratings to date. Hopefully the next round of advertising will have, I don't know, the right date and time on them.
ADs natural voice is still weird to me.
I was really engaged and entertained by ED this week!
The husbands story was not as engaging as it could have been since it was telegraphed, or at least easily apparent, where his story would end, and I was just waiting for them to get there and for the other shoe to drop elsewhere in other storylines.
Kind of annoyed at the losing-a-baby theme (but this is mostly my annoyance at all shows that work out character issues through the plot, usually in a ham-handed fashion), except that together there was the subtle difference in characters. One so debilitated by grief that they gave up their mind and body for five years and now a weird Stepford wife, and the other, while not quite as wrecked in that particular instance, but far greater in the sum of all the other lives known and lost, unwilling to trade the grief for emptiness.
So, Topher is a genius who doesn't think through his actions. But for Adelle to have allowed the "glandular" enhancement without testing? Sending a brand new discovery out on a mission with no idea of the side effects? The ugly hair has contaminated her brain.
