Ready to Rinse and Spit: Dollhouse and Cultural Narratives
It was going to happen sooner or later... Yes, I spent the evening writing Dollhouse meta. Quite long Dollhouse meta, that may or may not make sense and has a rather general feminist chat as it's opening. And it doesn't cover nearly as much as I would like to one day
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Yeah, it'll be really interesting to see where he goes - technically he saved wedge!Caroline, but I can see him not wanting to leave her physical body there either.
I don't think the people who got into the sow are watching it for the episode to episode fantasy, sure cute girls fighting are still appealing, pretty people walking around being sexy is fun but What's exciting is what happens when the fantasies stop, when Echo remembers something, when a knowing look passes between Victor and Sierra etc, so it's a paradox we want it both ways.
That's such a good point. I suppose I wonder then whether we would be happy with just one of those sides without the other. Would we be willing to watch the show without any of the sexy people running around? (And equally would we accept the concept without anyone glitching etc?) It's a kick in the teeth for anyone who piously claims they're above wanting to watch beautiful people run around at the same time as it makes us work out exactly how bad we are. (Even porn has some semblance of a plot?)
I think I'd agree with your last point that the Dollhouse isn't a worst case scenario, but I do think it has something interesting to say about that whole world, perhaps moreso by not being the most horrific(?). It doesn't produce the same level of visceral disgust (or at least not in everybody), so you're forced to think about it more intellectually and sift through the things that (maybe) make it quite a nice place to those that (maybe) make it very dodgy indeed. It makes you try and work out what the problem actually is (is it that they have repeated sexual encounters? that they have no control over what they're made to do? that they're taken away from the outside world?), rather than simply saying IT'S AWFUL. I quite like that.
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well yeah, and right now what I would think is awful is not so much the things that they make them do, after all what we do know is that the Dolls have to be brought back in one piece (which makes it horrible to be Saunders and Victor). But the not knowing what they did for 5 years ::shudders:: I'm sure some of it they wouldn't want to know but really not knowing anything at all? I'd go crazy afterward, plus I'd want to know what I survived even if it wasn't really me.
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Me too, definitely. I wouldn't be able to stand walking around and wondering if anyone recognised my face - and if so what for...
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