Dollhouse: Vows -- Echo finally gets hitched! Post your comments about the season premiere here.

POSTED BY: Haken
UPDATED: Monday, October 5, 2009 07:32
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HAKEN

Saturday, September 26, 2009 6:50 AM

Yep, Echo is at it again with 13 more engagements. I don't know about you all, but this episode needs to hit the ground running and set the tone for the rest of the season.

Watch tonight's Dollhouse season premiere and post your reactions here.

Did Dollhouse pickup where it left off? Or is it back to square one? I, for one, certainly hope not. Been there, done that, can't wait another half a season for things to start rolling along.

Anyway, your thoughts?

PIRATENEWS

Saturday, September 26, 2009 7:08 AM

Amy Acker was awesome.

Topher seemed like a human.

All the characters got to exercise charisma for a change.

More Joss jokes.

+1

MSA

Saturday, September 26, 2009 3:13 PM

Definitely good... I am glad they are finally letting characters come through... that's why we enjoy Joss... the characters. T'was awesome

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

SUASOR

Saturday, September 26, 2009 5:18 PM

Yeah, but only 2.56 million showed up to share all this goodness. Then again, those were pretty good numbers for BSG.

ASARIAN

Saturday, September 26, 2009 11:34 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by piratenews:
Amy Acker was awesome.

Topher seemed like a human.

All the characters got to exercise charisma for a change.

More Joss jokes.

+1

I agree with everything, word for word.

+1

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"I am all of them; but none of them is me." -- Echo

ZEEK

Monday, September 28, 2009 2:55 PM

Was it just me or did that seem like it would have made a better season finale than Omega? That episode set the tone more for this season then the finale did. We find out what Ballard is up to. Whiskey goes out with a bang. We get Alexis as a new threat. Then we end with Echo finally showing some potential.

At least there seems to be some direction. Hopefully the next few episodes build on that.

BLACKOUTNIGHTS

Monday, September 28, 2009 3:53 PM

I think this story established two things. One: the introduction of a new "agent" attempting to take down the Dollhouse, and Two: Echo's beginning to remember more and teaming up with Ballard.

Except for the fight at the end with Echo, it was really, freaking boring. It didn't seem like anyone was into character; like the actors were shocked to even being back. Really, I think Amy Acker did a great job, not to mention she's hawt as hell, and it's unfortunate she won't be a regular this season.

I don't know what's going to happen, but if they're looking for new viewers, they've got a LOT of work to do. I think the second episode will be better and that ratings will gradually climb. But the soap opera's going to have to take a back seat for a while and come in small bits so each episode can stand on its own if they want to increase the audience.

Truthfully, right now I'm not really fascinated by any of the characters.

Great review here:
http://www.nj.com/entertainment/tv/index.ssf/2009/09/dollhouse_vows_re
viewing_the_s.html

MANGOLO

Monday, September 28, 2009 6:47 PM

I watched it on Hulu and the first time I fell asleep 10 minutes in. The second time I watched I was really bored during the first half which the characters seemed to be muddling through although I really enjoyed the second half, I don't know if I want to watch the show only to see it canceled before we really get anywhere...and it doesn't look promising unless Joss has some guaranty that he gets to finish the season no matter what the numbers:

http://tvbythenumbers.com/2009/09/27/dollhouse-ratings-for-vows-septem
ber-25-2009-with-dvr-projections/28562

Defying Gravity (which wasn't very good) has five more COMPLETED episodes, but you won't be seeing them anytime soon unless you live in Canada.

Defying Gravity's last episode pulled in 2.53m and Dollhouse pulled in 2.56m....not good.

BYTEMITE

Monday, September 28, 2009 7:53 PM

I've been watching Topher's development with some interest, because right from the beginning I had a feeling that he was being intentionally written as a smug snake scrappy, just so that Joss could save him through character development. More and more that's looking to be the case.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheScrappy

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap

It's also very likely that after people find Topher a sympathetic, likeable character doing the best job he can in a bad business, Joss will have him cross a moral event horizon where people will start hating him again. Hey, it's good storytelling!

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MoralEventHorizon

Besides, in my personal opinion, he already did it with Ballard. Ballard is very clearly not the protagonist of this series. First he uses Mellie, has rough sex if not rapes her, then smacks a concussed Echo around? I kept thinking that the girlfriend hitting freak comment that Echo shot at the arms dealer applied equally to Ballard. It's creepy and wrong, and even more wrong when he became her handler. I'm pretty sure that's the point too. The madam of the Dollhouse has Ballard pegged.

However, I am so absolutely positive that the little wedding night montage that kept cutting to Ballard trying to distract himself from what he knows is going on was SOOO totally something Joss planned for Mal and Inara in Firefly at some point. So I also enjoyed that, because I could tell, it was obvious.

And I also enjoyed Dr. Saunders deciding to run.

The rest of it, yeaaaaaah, kind of boring.

SHINY

Tuesday, September 29, 2009 7:06 AM

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Originally posted by Bytemite:
Ballard is very clearly not the protagonist of this series. First he uses Mellie, has rough sex if not rapes her, then smacks a concussed Echo around? I kept thinking that the girlfriend hitting freak comment that Echo shot at the arms dealer applied equally to Ballard. It's creepy and wrong,

Seems a little less cut-and-dry to me since they would both have been killed (if not tortured first) if he couldn't trigger the bad-ass-fighter-imprint.

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I don't need a gorram back-spaceship driver!!!

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