Will Dollhouse survive a 2nd season?
POSTED BY: piratenews
UPDATED: Saturday, September 26, 2009 03:39
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Well I don't think we're going to agree, but we'll see based on ratings who's hypothesis is more correct. :-P
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Originally posted by Zeek:
Well I don't think we're going to agree, but we'll see based on ratings who's hypothesis is more correct. :-P
It's funny that you said that, cause I was ready to agree to disagree with you.
EDIT: that sounds a little vague. What I'm saying, Zeek, is that you're right. We'll just have to wait and see
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It really isn't that hard for new viewers to get into right because there really wasn't a whole lot of ground breaking issues resolved in season 1.
Really? What's a Doll? Why is this Ballard guy at odds with everyone else he works with? Who's this Whiskey and November they keep talking about? How come people keep calling that main character Echo and Caroline?
I think there are plenty of questions a brand new person would ask themselves if they tuned into a random episode. So many that I don't think they'd be able to understand what it is they're watching. They almost need something like the little intro monologues that Fox put before episodes of Firefly. "Here's how it is..."
It's not like it's a show like Alias, Fringe, 24, or X-files that has a huge and complex backstory. Dollhouse has only 13 episodes of backstory, no much to learn. And most of the questions you posed can be easily answered with a few lines of dialogue or an engagement with the Dollhouse, which is a likely episode for the season opener.
I say anyone who's not a complete moonbrain can jump in and catch up with a show like Dollhouse, X-Files, Fringe, LOST, or whatever, within a single episode. Sure, there's always some background detail missing, but it ain't exactly higher math. There's programmable Dolls; one is called Echo, the Other Victor, yet another one Sierra. By the time someone drops the name Whiskey, you should have gotten the picture. If not, it's back to your colorbook.
It's no different for, say, X-Files: one is the half-rogue young FBI agent, always on the lookout to uncover alien conspiracies, the other is paired up with him for the (original) purpose of debunking his theories. Together they investigate. Oh, and there's a bit of sexual tension between them. Trust me, people 'get' all of that inside of ten minutes.
And if the above weren't so, none of these shows could essentially be watched by anyone, 'cept for those lucky few that happened to catch the first episode.
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If you watch it it's not really that hard to understand. It's only people are programmable and has military letters as names. For season 2 they should now be getting into the part of the absolute purpose of the Dollhouse. Ballard should get more clues from the dolls about the main reason for the Dollhouse. I have this inlking feeling that it wasn't Mr Dominic who sent Echo and November the hidden message for Ballard.
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It will be lucky if it last 4 weeks.
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Not if the rest of the episodes are like the season 2 premiere.
seriously, what did Joss do all Summer? I hope he was busy writing Serenity II because the Dollhouse didn't look any different than it did in season 1, which is not good. And, based on the scenes for episode 2, it's only going to get worse. 
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