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meganbmoore) wrote2009-09-27 03:18 pm
meganbmoore) wrote2009-09-27 03:18 pm
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Dollhouse 2.1
I may have reached the point with this show where I'm more worried about being creeped out by praises for and justifications of it than anything the actual show will throw at me.
This episode is best summarized as this:
Whatever-Jamie-Bamber’s-character’s-name-was: Arms dealer, evil villain.
Paul Ballard: Human trafficker, hero.
Guess who I was rooting for?
By character(ish):
Echo: Possibilities of interesting things, but I’m less interested in the idea of a composite than I was early last season. Probably has to do with knowing that the personalities are constructs created by Topher exclusively to service another person’s specific need.
Ballard: Look at the angsty, angsty hero, listening to the woman he’s sexually obsessed with have sex with his enemy. It’s totally even more tragic when he’s the client who had her programmed to do it!
Topher: Threatening to throw women out windows if they acted without permission is so totally funny! I’m sure we were meant to feel for him when he was talking about how he had to make Whiskey/Saunders a real person, but I was more wanting her to drive him insane. And hey, he could program sexbots anytime he wanted, but doesn’t! So admirable!
DeWitt: Hair is not approved. Nailing Ballard precisely is. And “eeeeeeeew” to touching Victor’s face in a way that reminds us that she programmed someone she normally views as an oversized toddler to be her sextoy.
Sierra: Asians being racist against Asians is so funny! So totally funny! Make that a whole 2 imprints of Sierra’s that annoyed instead of interested me. (The other being when Topher effectively imprinted her with himself.)
Sierra/Victor: “Aaaaw” to non-creepy facetouching and handholding on the way to the playdate. Why is the least creepy pairing (hinted or otherwise) on this show effectively toddlers with inconvenient sex drives?
Whiskey: The only really interesting person around. More was done with her scenes here as far as the themes of identity and self than in the entirety of the rest of the show. Also, I prefer to think that Whiskey hated Topher before.
Whatever-Alexis-Denisoff’s-character’s-name-is: Please don’t go the Ballard route.
Less bad than most of the first season, but still pretty wrapped up in self-delusion and mistakenly believing that anything here approaches “moral greyness. ETA: Also, this is the second time that Echo has been beaten to "fix" her and make her able to do things. The priest in the cult episode beats her and messes up the implants, making her able to see again, and here, Ballard realizes that she's slipping into past personas and beats her until her gets the one he wants. Great messages! ”
Whatever-Jamie-Bamber’s-character’s-name-was: Arms dealer, evil villain.
Paul Ballard: Human trafficker, hero.
Guess who I was rooting for?
By character(ish):
Echo: Possibilities of interesting things, but I’m less interested in the idea of a composite than I was early last season. Probably has to do with knowing that the personalities are constructs created by Topher exclusively to service another person’s specific need.
Ballard: Look at the angsty, angsty hero, listening to the woman he’s sexually obsessed with have sex with his enemy. It’s totally even more tragic when he’s the client who had her programmed to do it!
Topher: Threatening to throw women out windows if they acted without permission is so totally funny! I’m sure we were meant to feel for him when he was talking about how he had to make Whiskey/Saunders a real person, but I was more wanting her to drive him insane. And hey, he could program sexbots anytime he wanted, but doesn’t! So admirable!
DeWitt: Hair is not approved. Nailing Ballard precisely is. And “eeeeeeeew” to touching Victor’s face in a way that reminds us that she programmed someone she normally views as an oversized toddler to be her sextoy.
Sierra: Asians being racist against Asians is so funny! So totally funny! Make that a whole 2 imprints of Sierra’s that annoyed instead of interested me. (The other being when Topher effectively imprinted her with himself.)
Sierra/Victor: “Aaaaw” to non-creepy facetouching and handholding on the way to the playdate. Why is the least creepy pairing (hinted or otherwise) on this show effectively toddlers with inconvenient sex drives?
Whiskey: The only really interesting person around. More was done with her scenes here as far as the themes of identity and self than in the entirety of the rest of the show. Also, I prefer to think that Whiskey hated Topher before.
Whatever-Alexis-Denisoff’s-character’s-name-is: Please don’t go the Ballard route.
Less bad than most of the first season, but still pretty wrapped up in self-delusion and mistakenly believing that anything here approaches “moral greyness. ETA: Also, this is the second time that Echo has been beaten to "fix" her and make her able to do things. The priest in the cult episode beats her and messes up the implants, making her able to see again, and here, Ballard realizes that she's slipping into past personas and beats her until her gets the one he wants. Great messages! ”