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

[speakr2customrs.livejournal.com]

Yes, that was it. I only understood about one word in ten of what she said.

[bastardsnow.livejournal.com]

Oh man, Snoop is incomprehensible at the *best* of times.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

I just about got that she planned to use it on people, but that was about it. And not exactly a new idea anyway, between Monty Python and a novel I read many years ago that had a nail gun attack.

[bastardsnow.livejournal.com]

Actually, the point of the scene was that the nail gun was so advanced these days that she might as well use it to kill people, but her actual plan was to use it to board up abandoned houses where they had dropped the bodies of people they'd already killed (although, the bit about what they *actually* planned to do wasn't in the clip, if I recall correctly).

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

OK, shows just how poorly I understood it.