Enver Gjokaj is SUCH a good actor and he was so strong in Dollhouse! It's really a shame about.....everything else about dollhouse. because yeah the premise could have been really cool if it was being handled by someone other than whedon.

my number one character I adore from a book that makes me go yikes is Tagiri from Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus. Pastwatch is an Orson Scott Card book that has a deeply racist and uncomfortable premise, but Tagiri is a character who has really spoken to me for decades. She's compassionate, she's deeply odd, and that combination is respected in her by the narrative and by the people around her. And specifically what she does is she uses the "pastwatch" machines to look through history backwards - following her family's story back and back and back further in time to find the causes of things after having observed the results, which just feels so relatable to me. And she is interested in the stories of ordinary people when she looks through the past, instead of looking at the "great men" of history. She cares about people as individuals and sees their importance in their own lives.

(If you want to read more of my thoughts about why the rest of pastwatch is pretty garbage, and why I used to love it anyway, here's my book review)