Dollhouse

Are we really having this conversation? Are we actually going to predict that Dollhouse isn’t going to make it through its second season before said season has actually commenced? And are we going to predicate that prediction on the grounds that the show doesn’t really have anywhere else to go? Well, I’m not.

See, back in March, I wrote this more-in-sorrow-than-in-anger piece for The Atlantic’s website, published the day Dollhouse’s sixth episode aired, in which I said the show didn’t live up to Joss Whedon’s feminist vision and that the show would have to make the show’s protagonist, a young woman named Echo/Caroline who gave up her identity under duress to live life as a blank slate and sent out into the real world to enact rich people’s fantasies, a real person in order for the show to succeed. That very night, Whedon proceeded to do exactly that with the show. I don’t think I’ve ever whiplashed between pride and regret on a piece so quickly (though I think the analysis of why Whedon’s work is effectively feminist stands up all right). If you’re out there, Mr. Whedon, I apologize. (And someday I’ll publish the full content of the very thoughtful responses you sent to my questions.) The subsequent episodes proceeded to floor me.

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http://alyssarosenberg.blogspot.com/2009/07/deathwatch.html