of love and crack pot recaps

[seraphcelene]

1.) I love Julian Sands. Always have, probably always will.

2.) Was the last season of Dollhouse as crackpot as the recaps make it sound? Because, dude, if that's the case then I'm kinda glad that I opted out on that one. Seriously, Joss? Are we really surprised that Dollhouse was canceled? Really?

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[diachrony.livejournal.com]

Apparently it's necessary to have seen "Epitaph One" (the S1 finale that didn't air but is found on the DVD set) in order for "Epitaph Two" (series finale) to make the sense it should. I'm told it hangs together really well if one has seen Epitaph One.

I have mostly read the squee and raves recently about Dollhouse, from people saying their doubts over S1 were alleviated by S2. I can say that S2 wasn't stand-alone episodic, like S1 was.

I am up to date except for the Epitaphs - I want to watch One before Two.

So far I'm overall very impressed but wish Joss had had more time to tell his full story, and more of a free rein from the beginning ... I think it would have been incredible.

[seraphcelene]

I have mostly read the squee and raves recently about Dollhouse, from people saying their doubts over S1 were alleviated by S2. I can say that S2 wasn't stand-alone episodic, like S1 was.

I'd seen the beginning of S2, but, I don't know. For me S1 really failed to create any real attachment to the characters. I cared, but not all that much. I mean, generally, I forgot that the show was even airing. I never forgot about TSCC or Life or my kdramas. But, Dollhouse? I kept forgetting that it was on. Going back, I was mildly interested in watching and I watched two episodes kinda in the middle of the season (the Priya centric and Victor centric episodes), but again ... I had no consistent empathy.

Partially, I think the problem was that Echo didn't engage me. The doll state prevalent in season just wasn't quite enough. There was no consistent big bad outside of the threat of Alpha and the shadowy Rossum Corp. A friend of my pointed out that I wanted to like it because it was a Joss show, but that maybe it just wasn't really a good show. Which I think might be the case. It was theoretically interesting, but I don't know if it really works in execution. I'd like to go back and re-watch all of the episodes, S1 - Epitaph Two and really pay attention and make a determination of that.

[diachrony.livejournal.com]

There was a lot of failiness in how S1 was handled, in my opinion, and it seems to have been the network pressure that caused the fail - at least what I considered "fail." It really took far too long for the show to get "good" and I was continuing to watch solely because I'd heard it *would* improve. I can't blame people for giving up before then.

From what I've read, many people did decide it just wasn't a really good show, based on early S1, and then changed their minds during late S1 and/or S2. I'm looking forward to a mass re-watch of the DVDs when S2 comes out, but I'm pretty sure I'll still be impatient and disappointed with the first half of S1. A lot of time wasted that could have been devoted to quality storytelling ... grrr. Unavoidably the cancellation has left us with questions and unfilled plot holes.

And of course for some people it's just not a story they're interested in - a valid issue to be sure.

Your complaint about Echo not engaging you is a common one - I didn't care about her much either until S2! She changes a lot.

It's worth watching the entire series just to be awed and amazed by the brilliant Enver Gjokaj, even if you don't care about the show in general. Seriously. That guy is incredible.