Ok not me but I got your attention right? Well maybe not unless you're a Josh Fan. So James Poniewozik gets to view a Dollhouse episode and his comments are somewhat hopeful? He does admit the biggest career mistake he had was having reservations about Firefly so he's not pronouncing judgment yet, he even makes comments that he may end up liking it. Sounds like the main actress needs to be canned but here's to hoping it gets better.
From Tunedin:
My TiVo may be on life support, but the DVD player still works, and midseason TV is starting to come in fast and furious. Among the screeners I've received is a little show by some guy who did something about vampires once. You don't want to hear anything about it yet, do you? I didn't think so. Ignore me as I write more after the jump.
OK, a little preface. I've watched the Dollhouse episode (given the history of remakes on this show, I don't know whether I can properly call it the "pilot") once, casually, without taking notes. I reserve the right to change my mind after I've watched it and marinated on it more. And I wasn't crazy about Firefly when it first debuted, in retrospect one of the worse calls of my career.
It was both better and worse than I expected, in different ways. One of my concerns about it was that—given Joss Whedon's talent for making absorbing serials—the case-of-the-week nature of the show would make it harder to grow attached to. (I'm assuming that anyone who cares at this point knows the premise already, but in case I'm wrong: Eliza Dushku plays Echo, an "Active," which is a person who has agreed to let a secretive organization erase his or her original memories and personality and implant new ones in them for "assignments" involving rich clients.)
Yes, this is certainly Joss Whedon trying to do What People Think Works on Broadcast TV Today—the legendary serial-procedural hybrid. But the first episode—in which Echo is imprinted with a kidnapping-negotiator's personality to secure the return of a rich man's abducted daughter—is well enough written to be absorbing. Writing a crime hour doesn't seem like Whedon's thing, but the episode is tight, suspenseful, with intriguing psychological twists and flashes of Whedonesque humor.
See full impressions here: http://tunedin.blogs.time.com/2008/12/04/i-have-seen-dollhouse/
3 comments:
Cool. Yeah, Dushku doesn't strike me as an actress with a lot of range, so that's not surprising.
nowandzen, you know Buffy season 1 is available on hulu, right? You can solve your Whedon-jones right now. Just note that season 1 is merely B- territory for the most part. It really gets going near the end of that season and then into season 2.
Funny you say that. I just caught that it was on Hulu yesterday when I fired up Objects in Space, the last firefly episode on my laptop in the kitchen while I did dishes/dinner. I'm going in... cover me!
I'm sensing there is a general disinterest in anything Josh Whedon related at horrorthon with 2 posts about him and no comments except from me and Landshark. :o No one cared as much as I did for Firefly? In the words of Gob from AD.... "Comon!" :)
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