Dollhouse 2.04

[meganbmoore]

Wow. Joss Whedon, you just managed to offend me on levels I didn’t know I had while simultaneously boring me to tears. I didn’t know that was possible.

I should mention that this episode is the FOURTH TIME that this show has had a man assault a woman with “good” results. Possibly more. I did skip two episodes, after all. This is particularly

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[paperclipchains]

I knew I was right not to watch that.

[lady_ganesh]

It was the best episode of the show I've seen. And it was that. It was good that it was my wakeup call to stop watching, though-- I'd stopped and thought, "Oh, a Priya episode!"-- and...no. I'm done.

[meganbmoore]

Exactly. When I heard about the episode and didn't care to watch the episodes leading up to it, I realized that Priya's story was the only ing keeping me around. And now we had it and she stayed and they even made it ore about Topher than her. And we know she and Victor won't work out, so there's not that either, so the only thing fueling my masochistic tendencies is gone, and I can just daydream about the spy show with Dichen Lachman and Enver Gjojik as the leads who are partners after working for dueling agencies. Olivia Williams is their boss, and she used to be the bestest field agent ever before retiring to a desk job for Mysterious Reasons.

[lady_ganesh]

I like the show I proposed here, too. Olivia Williams could come along too, though.

[morwen_peredhil]

They only hit us for our own good. Or something.

[meganbmoore]

Echo being beaten by the evil paranoid priest? Fixed her blindness, so she could save them! Echo being assaulted by Ballard's enemy? Made her malfunction! So that Ballard could beat her until he got the imprint he wanted! And now we have an extended sequence of Sierra/Priya being punched, slapped, kicked and slammed into things because otherwise, how will she have the strength to defend herself against the man who drugged her into insanity, had her stripped of all self and autonomy, and had her programmed to like being constantly raped by him for a year? And, of course, now that she's killed him, he's no longer the black stain on her soul, but she is! (Ever so cleverly shown by her silhouette creating a black spot on her painting similar to the black spot on her other paintings that represented him.)

[morwen_peredhil]

I'm so happy that I dumped this show after S1.

[gryphonsegg]

*flails and curses* Please tell me the Whedonites have stopped defending this show as somehow secretly feminist.

[lyssie]

(Also…uhm…CAN you drug someone into developing paranoid schizophrenia?)

Possibly? You can certainly drive them insane and make them think weird shit is going down, I'd imagine.

eta: also, every time you talk about this show, my opinion of the people who think it's good goes down just a little more.

[meganbmoore]

At it's best, it's only ever been "less bad" or close to "better than" the rest. Good actors, lots of interesting potential, but all of it's wasted in the name of promoting a rape apologist fantasy.

[lady_ganesh]

Topher himself realizes she didn't really have schizophrenia when he looks at her brain scans, so my guess is that he drugged her into symptoms that looked like paranoid schizophrenia.

[lyssie]

I suppose this means Topher then gave her her real memories back and let her go?

[dancesontrains]

There's a character called Priya? Irrationally, I'm now even more annoyed at the show; I have two cousins with that name.

I'm glad you're going to stop watching this shit! And I would volunteer my backyard for the DVD burning if I lived nearby.

[meganbmoore]

Yes. Normally called Sierra. She was kinda my only real interest after I realized it'd never escape the rape apologist fantasy part. The interest is rather gone, now.

[nutmeg3]

But Joss is a feminist. He said so, and shouldn't that trump the vile-at-heart premise of this show, which apparently just keeps getting viler?

[meganbmoore]

Interesting how feminism has an on/off switch. Like racism. Unless you're trying to be overtly feminist, you must drown in misogyny. Just like how nothing is racst, sexist, homophobic, etc. unless it's INTENDED to be so.