Dollhouse 2.1

[meganbmoore]

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.

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[mystickeeper]

WAIT JAMIE BAMBER IS IN THIS EPISODE, TOO?! I will now watch it immediately. I don't know if I can handle Jamie Bamber and Alexis Denisof in the same episode of anything.

[meganbmoore]

Yup! I was almost automatically inclined to like him, due to his hating Ballard.

[lady_ganesh]

Yeah. And wtf was Ballard doing? HE HAS BEEN FIRED I DO NOT UNDERSTAND THIS PLOT.

[meganbmoore]

But he's a HERO. He's the PROTAGONIST. He must bring in criminals no matter what! Unless, of course, the criminals let him be closer to the object of his obsession. Then it's ok, as long as he can fire moral judgments at them.

[monalisaofpasta]

I totally forced myself to forget and mindwipe the whole Sierra thing from my brain (maybe not the best terminology for the show).

And ugh with Ballard.

I was rooting for neither, except Ballard was may more ugh here, and if I had to choose, I would go with the arms dealer, but still they could both rot.

Mostly, I am sad that I watched it, I thought I was done. *shakes fist at Whedon*

[meganbmoore]

Yeah, I didn't root for him so much as his crimes were far less repulsive! (Also, he at least thought he was in love with an actual person, as opposed to a creepy sexual obsession. And didn't become a rapist when he found out.)

[monalisaofpasta]

Yeah it is a really sad thing that what you look for in this show when it comes to characters in this show is whether or not they are engaged with rape.

But with Ballard, we get to watch him orchestrate a horrible assignment for Echo, and then watch him beat her, only for him to be made her handler.

Yeah, show, I don't know what you think you are doing on that score.

[meganbmoore]

It's even better when you consider that we were apparently meant to view his beating as an ultimately positive thing, and Bamber's character's assault as being worse? And while I'm attempting to purge BOTH assasult's from my brain, didn't the actual physical assault in the scene with Bamber confine itself to his slamming her head against the table? (Mind you, I was too annoyed that they really did go there-though why I expected better is beyond me-to be paying close attention.) And it was very much staged as spousal abuse, but it was also immediately after learning that his wife didn't love him and only became involved with him to put him in jail. His actions are still repulsive, and yet, as he isn't a rapist or human trafficker, it still doesn't bring him as low as every regular male character on the show except for Victor. Who is, in essence, a baby.

[lady_ganesh]

I do not get what programmed-to-be-racist!Sierra was supposed to do when, you know, SHE LOOKED IN THE MIRROR.

[meganbmoore]

I know! Like, was she somehow programmed to not notice? It was just such a nonsensical thing that you know the sole reason it existed was that someone thought it'd be an awesome joke.

[lyssie]

*shudders* This show just sounds worse and worse the more people talk about it.

[meganbmoore]

It's an ILLNESS.

[mystickeeper]

I agree that Whiskey is the most interesting character on the show.

I feel really guilty because every time there's a scene meant to induce pity for Topher....I FEEL THAT PITY. I feel like I need to use mouthwash in my brain.

[lady_ganesh]

Whiskey is so interesting-- her desire to survive as she was and not go back to who she used to be is pretty cool too.

[meganbmoore]

Thankfully, I do not feel the pity. Like, in that one episode, if DeWitt had commented that she let him have an active on his birthday because he couldn't leave, I'd still hate him, but I might feel a little pity? But no.