dollhouse goes interesting

Dollhouse (something your not watching)  is getting too fast but crammed some interesting ideas into its mix on the subject of mind control. Our hero echo is better without the mono personality she has been playing, and since it is termination time there are some rather interesting conspiracy tales to be told.

Loose ends on the active side of things where also tied up and both episodes kept it fresh with some interesting script turns that played out right until the end.

Very battlestar galactica like ideas also in the script

5/5 bananas – again, only three episodes left.

Dollhouse finally gets some clarity.

a good guest star in dollhouse

Last week i said this about Dollhouse (my blog) and then in another double helping this week it finally moved from a single perspective on the merits of fishing rods (or something like that), to some heavy-duty ethics/thought on mind control.

Naturally most of you won’t have tuned in, but hey thats your loss.

It was interesting to see an indication of the size of the operation, a revisit (my blog) of old clients, and the topher/Adelle spat. Alpha’s appearance also should get some kudos.  Cool.

The change is palpable and despite some really dire episodes with interference from Rupert Murdoch and staff means that despite being canceled theres proof that writing in this series should have worked without being brainwiped by some idiot at fox each week prior to filming.

5/5 bananas.

You know dollhouse is in trouble when …

buying a senator

When jumping in as guest stars you get Alexis Denisof & Summer Glau.  Nothing wrong except that Ms Glau is veteran of being canceled by the evil baron Rupert Murdoch.

Dollhouse has the occasional moments of brilliant, and the double combination of guest stars  left one in the lurch.

The writing in Dollhouse remains good, its cancellation and speed up to it affected the Summer plot which i know where it might have been set but left alot of it in the lurch.

Thought wise i like Dollhouse, and the secondary stars are really beginning to shine through. Perhaps it is a good thing that most dont get this idea*.

5/5 bananas.

* its scheduling sucks

Tinfoil hats – woot

In fringe.

I like that,  please note the lack of a dr who comment here today.

my neck needs scratching this week (the ponderous world of Defying Gravity)

tampon selling in defying gravity

Defying Gravity is one of those tv shows set in space but is not s/f just so they don’t go and scare the average viewers away as tampons do need selling.

To watch dg means you can jump in to it at any time (flashbacks), there is a thing in storage pod 4, it came from mars, so they put it on spaceship where the pod 4 thing chooses the crew – rather than the people in charge, meanwhile some inane soap opera deals with the aftermath of puking astronauts, and the irony of doing sex experiments on plants/animals but not with humans.  Think it was written by catholics ?

Naturally after forty or so minutes comes the holy voiceover telling you the dumb audience to

rub some bodies neck

And thats the end of it. The world is a strange place.

V (the remake) and why you avoid it

Read this, the conclusion is wait for the movie/film, sorry tv you got played (my blog).

battlestar:The Plan

Awful (and that’s from a fan of the reimaged tv series), mind you i did not like razor either.

0/5 bananas,

Mr Olmos (whose project it is) should be ‘reminded‘ that knowing everything makes for a boring life, for instance whatever Kara Thrace was*, and quite how things became means sometimes its nice to think for oneself.

* plaything,human,guide,spirit etc

Dollhouse – finally gets interesting.

be carefull what you wish for

Dollhouse is something that i tolerate and is on television.  It has had an iffy start, subject to vagueness of people who would not know how to put a tv show together when the people making it are not up to the job in some strange world called tv executive land (search this blog for further musings).

Getting a second season was even touch and go but my intolerance to tv executives who think they can make tv has resulted in some nice episodes by the people who really make it.

These are very much in the minority, but it appears theres life to be found here after all.

Flash Forward == Boring;

Quite how the hype fails to meet reality is not that surprising (my blog).   I got bored with the rehash each week.  Honestly who gives a shit.

Family Guy – road to the muiltiverse

brian griffin in one universe

Season 8 the starter for family guy was brilliant, a journey through how the Griffins might have looked .

Class 5/5 bananas.