A small thought about Dollhouse... and a confession about The Wire

[ffutures]

It occurs to me that one of the reason why I'm dissatisfied with Dollhouse is an area of dishonesty - it's claimed, repeatedly, that male and female Dolls are given the same sort of assignments, but so far we've never see any evidence whatever that the male Dolls are being used for prostitution, whereas we repeatedly see Echo in this role.

And The Wire. Well, I really tried, for three nights this week, but I'm afraid I really don't find this show engaging my attention at all. Part of it is that I have trouble understanding a lot of what the characters are saying, most of it is that my memory for character names and faces is REALLY bad, and I have major problems following the story at all. Add to that that the BBC are showing it after 11 PM, when my attention span is not at its best, and non-comprehension is near total. Sorry, but I think I'm going to have to sit this one out.

Comments

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

If they've said that I missed it. But saying it and showing it the way they've shown Echo's assignments are two very different things.

[bastardsnow.livejournal.com]

I entirely agree, saying it and showing it a la Echo are very different things, although, I'll give them a *little* leeway because the show is mostly about Echo, and most other Active assignments that we've seen have been in some way related to either Echo's current assignment or to the overarching storyline of the season.

That said, it is something they need to explicitly address, or else, honestly, I kind of feel like the idea of this show being more than an excuse to get Eliza to dress up in lots of different clothes is somewhat... less probable.

[houses7177.livejournal.com]

THey said that Victor was probably showing sexual urges toward Sierra because he'd been on assignment with "looking for love" or whatever the code name was for that lady six times, I think. So it's been more than mentioned, IMHO, as it was the reason they initially suspected Victor of Sierra's rape: too much nookie broke his already broken brain.

But I agree, too much of the prostitution implication for me to really love this series. I'm sticking with it because I love Helo/Paul Ballard/Tamoh, but it's not getting me.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Remember it now, but it wasn't exactly showcased the way Echo is.

[houses7177.livejournal.com]

My only counter argument here is that it's a show about Echo, so we expect things to be showcased about her.

[dsample.livejournal.com]

But then, we haven't seen all that much of any of the other Doll's assignments, either. We've seen Sierra as a bad-ass killer, and a super-fan to a pop star.