For those wanting to know if it gets less skeevtastic: We'll let you know. Don't worry. You'll notice by how we don't rush to take a scalding shower after to try to get the NOBADWRONG AND NOT IN THE FUN WAY off.
Honestly, the show is obviously aware of how skeevy and wrong the entire concept is, and that's a good thing. But I can't help but think that it thinks that knowing that it has those problems makes the problems ok.
Beyond that, the central problem I'm having right now (aside from sexing it up way too much) is Echo. Or rather, the deliberate lack of substance to latch on to there. Who am I supposed to be latching on to, here? Boyd and Dr. Fred are fairly likable and sympathetic, but they also work for the company, apparently of their own free will, meaning they endorse things like apparently regularly literally whoring Echo (and persumably others) out for the weekend. Director Lady is interesting, but running the Dollhouse. Her flunky is...a flunky. Topher is repulsive and giddy that he gets to mess around with people's heads. This episode also makes me think that he's unaware of-or doesn't care about-the consequences of that, which makes him far, far worse. Agent Helo has potential, but is removed from the main action. Also, the actor is pretty and likable, but doesn't seem to be much of an actor. And I think I liked the character-as shown so far-better a few months ago when I watched the first season of
Sarah Connor Chronicles and his name was Ellison.
Which brings us back to Echo. Obviously, I'm supposed to be rooting for her, but who am I rooting for. Am I rooting for Caroline, the girl who wanted the world but had something go horribly wrong? The persinality of the week, who will only be onscreen for maybe 25 minutes of the episode? Or is it Echo, the childlike, almost literally brainless near robot? See, I can like Echo. I can feel sympathy for her. I can pity her. In a similar way to how I'd automatically do the same for a lost three-year-old I saw at the mall, or a dog that wandered up to me and asked me to pet it. But there's nothing to grab on to with her, and the fact that the show makes her an empty, childlike shell deliberately only adds to my frustration.
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