On Saturday night, Hugo and I watched the first three episodes of the Dollhouse, then it was 8pm so Hugo went to bed and I watched another two.
Our life is v exciting, as you can tell.
I'd been reading mixed reports, especially from a feminist perspective, of the Dollhouse, so I wasn't sure whether I was going to love it or not. Sean told me I had to watch all five episodes at once.
I get the problem people are having with the concept. But I don't have this problem. Having watched the first five eps, I think it's becoming quite clear that the concept is not being presented as (to use a Whedonism) unproblematical. In fact, the way in which Joss Whedon has tackled issues of people screwing with people's minds before - notably in season five/season six of Buffy (where first Glory and then Willow screw with Tara's mind) and in season five of Angel, where Angel makes his friends forget Connor's existence, leads me to believe that this is going to turn out to be a very problematical issue indeed. And that's without even going near the fact that conceptually, the Dollhouse is very clearly a whorehouse, as Tim Minear has acknowledged: "We are talking about a whorehouse on some level".
Well, pretty much on every level, far as I'm concerned.
But seriously, Echo's "wipes" are clearly starting to go wrong. If anyone's imagining that there's not going to be a whole lot of arse-kicking revenge once she works out what's going on, they're wrong. WRONG.
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