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Dollhouse: “Briar Rose” and “Omega”
Todd VanDerWerff makes a better case for Dollhouse in a recent post on The House Next Door site than I could have ever come up with on my own. Among other things, he explains the reasons why so many people like me have such a love-hate relationship with a series that has been so exasperating this season that by all rights it should be provoking little more than strong indifference.
On one hand, it's hard to pretend the ideas employed by the series and the questions posed (What is a human? What is free will? If you download a copy of a person's mind into another body, is the resulting person really real?) aren't intriguing.
On the other, it's hard to ignore the frequency with which such ideas and questions are squared off with predictable plots and characterization.
And whom do you root for on a series in which the good guys seem almost indistinguishable from the bad guys? Isn't there enough evil in the world without giving us yet more depravity to deal with?
It doesn't help matters that both Caroline (the original personality of the character played by Eliza Dushku in this series) and Echo (the personality that has evolved in Caroline's body since the original personality was evicted) are all too often written as thinly disguised versions of Faith, the bad girl character Ms. Dushku played on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. As much as I liked Faith on her original series, I'd just as soon not see her again in another series. And yet the show's writers keep bringing her back again and again.
Oh,well. At least the show's two-part finale was satisfying. It answered some questions and posed some more. At least one character -- apart from Caroline and Echo, of course -- should be returning if the series gets a second season and I pray that this particular character doesn't turn into Dollhouse's equivalent of Sylar, the exasperating supervillain on Heroes of whom even my middle brother -- who used to be the definite Heroes fan -- has grown tired.
We'll see.
Dollhouse: “Briar Rose” and “Omega”
Todd VanDerWerff makes a better case for Dollhouse in a recent post on The House Next Door site than I could have ever come up with on my own. Among other things, he explains the reasons why so many people like me have such a love-hate relationship with a series that has been so exasperating this season that by all rights it should be provoking little more than strong indifference.
On one hand, it's hard to pretend the ideas employed by the series and the questions posed (What is a human? What is free will? If you download a copy of a person's mind into another body, is the resulting person really real?) aren't intriguing.
On the other, it's hard to ignore the frequency with which such ideas and questions are squared off with predictable plots and characterization.
And whom do you root for on a series in which the good guys seem almost indistinguishable from the bad guys? Isn't there enough evil in the world without giving us yet more depravity to deal with?
It doesn't help matters that both Caroline (the original personality of the character played by Eliza Dushku in this series) and Echo (the personality that has evolved in Caroline's body since the original personality was evicted) are all too often written as thinly disguised versions of Faith, the bad girl character Ms. Dushku played on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. As much as I liked Faith on her original series, I'd just as soon not see her again in another series. And yet the show's writers keep bringing her back again and again.
Oh,well. At least the show's two-part finale was satisfying. It answered some questions and posed some more. At least one character -- apart from Caroline and Echo, of course -- should be returning if the series gets a second season and I pray that this particular character doesn't turn into Dollhouse's equivalent of Sylar, the exasperating supervillain on Heroes of whom even my middle brother -- who used to be the definite Heroes fan -- has grown tired.
We'll see.
Labels: Eliza Dushku, La Casa de Muñecas, Pensamientos Acerca de Televisión III, Series de Televisión de Ciencia Ficción I!
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