So what happened to last week’s episode?
Fox decided to run Prison Break in its place. I think its back on this week. (Prison Break did get lower rantings than Dollhouse did however!!)
The season finale, I think? Of Prison Break. So our Dollhouse got pushed back a week. Stretch it out, let us enjoy it longer 
Us GWCers should be used to that by now lol
Rumor has it that Fox isn’t cancelling Dollhouse now, though. (Apparently, Sarah Connor may yet live as well.)
Pleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleaseplease
Where’d you read that Terminator may make it? I’m not questioning it, just looking for good news. “I want to believe.”
I would love to hear good news about Terminator, but I’m not very hopeful.
Here: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3i9adb8751e5603b1d298a709ac8c6d7d1
Although since I read this news here: http://www.pajiba.com/ I totally misrepresented the news. “Considered all but gone” may not be OFFICIALLY cancelled, but it doesn’t sound like it will stick around. Still, I suppose there’s always hope. Sorry to be a teasing d-bag, even if accidentally. 
I know the world doesn’t work in a linear and fair way, but I hope T4 is good, does major box office (and doesn’t have the craaaaapy twist I read about), and it revives T:Sarachronnorcles as a viable entity.
Back to Mr. Whedon: Here’s a swell interview from the Chicago Tribune’s Maureen Ryan, who rules. No definitive answers, but interesting:
Here’s a linkety-link to read
I disagree with the ultimate conclusion of the quality of the series (really if she’s only seen four episodes, and they’re the first one… she’s missing out), but I still thought the rest of the commentary was interesting.
Tonight’s episode was making my head hurt a little. A sweet “ghost story”, Topher’s geek fest and then the weird Paul/Mellie stuff. I WAS however, excited by next weeks preview.
[spoiler]Alan Tudyk shows up next week![/spoiler]
and:
[spoiler]did anyone think that Paul Ballard is Alpha?[/spoiler]
Something about the way the doctor said it. Although I did see the i09.com piece a few posts back, so maybe it is AT.
I’m betting it will be AT.
[COLOR=“Gray”]The AT you were talking about not me being AT and alpha…[/COLOR]
And the sheriff from The Train Job.
I thought it alpha would always be Ballard, but whatevs
That’s an interesting theory, but if so wouldn’t Ballard remember rebelling against the Dollhouse? Yes, he could have been wiped afterwards, but if that was the case why would the Dollhouse people imprint him as a police agent and let him go?
And if the Dollhouse know where Alpha was, I think they would take him down instead of just watching him.
I don’t know if Ballard is Alpha or a former doll, but I do think Ballard must have had ties with Dollhouse before. In that episode about the mole, I actually thought that Paul himself is the mole, or at least his former self (be it as a doll, Alpha, or a employee of the dollhouse) might be. Or something. 
From a while back -
Again, definitely not sure how they could work it in a logical way, but I find it strange that Paul has had such strong convictions in taking down the Dollhouse, even before he met Mellie, if he himself didn’t used to have a relationship with the Dollhouse.
Having said that, kind of a boring episode this past week. I really wish they delved a little more into the whole immortal life idea as supposed to watching Echo solve a pretty dull murder mystery case. And I got to admit, Dushku is a good actress, but she really can’t pull off the whole doll thing as well as the other dolls, and this episode sort of amplified that. I don’t know. I was just bored through that whole part of the episode.
As for the Topher bit; I don’t know. I feel that I need to know more about Topher other than him being a cruel but brilliant scientist playing with live humans as lab rats to feel any kind of compassion for him. I don’t understand his motivations in working at the Dollhouse (and to an extent, everyone else there too. For example, I feel that Echo’s handler is a good guy, but yet we have no idea why he works there, or even what kind of a person he is. Hence, it’s difficult to feel anything for the employees there). I hate to compare it Firefly again, but in the same amount of episodes, even though we don’t know everything about each character, we’ve gotten to know their likes and dislikes, their quirks and personalities pretty darn well to feel for them and/or root for them. Not so much in Dollhouse - I don’t need to know all the secret cool stuff all at once, but it would be nice to be able to get a feel for each character (mostly the employees, because I can see why the dolls would and should be hard to understand), so I can care moer about them.
But, I thought all the Mellie and Paul stuff was quite incredible. Definitely effed up and creepy, but really good acting from both of them.
This is a week old or so, but I find that this article’s analysis of the show is interesting.
(and for me, spot-on)
Casilda, I tried to read all of the piece you linked, it got to be a bit much for my tastes, but it was, as you said interesting. Maybe because my Whedon-lust is for Firefly and Dr. Horrible only (I never watched Buffy) I’m much more accepting of Dollhouse, which to me, seems to grow more and more interesting each week. (Sorry, couldn’t agree with you either coco). I was thrilled with this week’s episode and can’t wait for the next one.
If Whendon is an artist, and I think we can all agree with that, he’s gonna try new things. I’m okay with that. U2 has experimented with their sound several times. I can’t help but wonder if that creative exploration (that turned off many fans, including my husband) turned on Bono’s global exploration. Just a thought.
Argh. I have a hard time reading feminist writing, because they tend to say things like
…even the boy dolls are girls, stripped of agency or access to power and cast in pre-defined roles to fulfill the fantasies of the folks who are actually in charge.
Which is just stacking the deck. A powerless female is female. A powerless male is… female. Irony much?
And skipping past her stepfather issues (really,) we come to
Whedon has done a lot of shows about magically powerful women and the men who protect them (Buffy had Giles, River had Simon and Mal)
Not as sure about Buffy/Giles, but I think it was at least as symbiotic as River/Simon (or even River/Mal, in the end.) Yeah, people need each other. You’re not less of a woman for alternately leaning on and supporting your man (or woman.) Get over your bad self.
That said, I probably am onboard with her overall point. Dollhouse is potentially brilliant.