DOLLHOUSE!

[lirazel]

This is my reaction post to "Echo," which I wrote as I watched, so it's garbled.  I'll probably have some coherent thoughts tomorrow.

The opening with Eliza and Olivia—very, very intriguing.

 

Eliza, put your helmet on!  You don’t want to mess up that pretty face, do you?

 

I don’t know how I feel about these backwards memories special effects erasing-ness.  Too over-the-top?

 

Topher reminds me of Warren.

 

I’m totally in love with the set-designer.  So Wolfram and Hart-esque.  Is it possible for Zen to be creepy?

 

Olivia Williams gets the “And Anthony Stewart Head” bit in the credits!

 

I don’t know how I feel about the credits sequence yet.  I liked seeing all the cast members’ names under their faces on all of Joss's other shows, and I don’t know about it all being shots of Eliza.  And I'll need to listen to the theme song six or seven more times to decide if I really like it, though I love the creepy little bit at the end with Joss's name over the lit-up beds.

 

All these lovely familiar names at the bottom of the screen!  Tim Minear!  Fain and Craft!  David Solomon!  Just like the good ole days!

 

Olivia Williams kicks ass already.

 

There are a lot more actives than I thought there would be running around in the Dollhouse.

 

And there’s Amy being nothing like Fred.  Or Illyria.  And the scars are kinda cool.  She’s tentative but in a much calmer way than Fred ever was. 

 

TAHMOH!!!!!!!!

 

Huh?  Does Sierra know Tahmoh?

 

I like how they’re actually acknowledging objections people might have to why someone would hire an active.  Very Joss-like.

 

“Something more extreme.  Something more specific.  Something perfect.”  Awesome line.

 

What’s with the boxing?  Not that watching Tahmoh kick ass while shirtless isn’t hot, but what’s up with it?

 

DUDE!!! Did you see that kick????

 

I really, really like Boyd already.  He seems like such a conflicted sweetheart.  And an ex-cop, that's cool.  And he seems to really care about Echo.  I approve of him in the Giles/Shepherd Book role.

 

EDWARD JAMES OLMOS REFERENCE FTW!!!  (Though Adama has not been comforting of late, as May can attest.)  Joss, you are such a geek.

 

The details of the glasses thing is beyond cool.

 

That is so cool about where the memories come from, from amalgams of other people.  But how do they get their hands on those memories?

 

“Achievement is balanced by fault, by a lack.  Can’t have one without the other.”  I like Topher's little speech.

 

“She also has asthma.”  There’s no way that isn’t going to be important.

 

TAHMOH at a bar!

 

Victor is totally cute.  I approve.

 

The flashes to her memories of seeing Sierra—creepy!

 

Asthma!

 

Ha!  Victor and Paul in the bathroom!

 

Asthma!

 

I don’t know about these commercial breaks.  I kind of hope that this isn’t an every week thing.  It’ll make everything awfully messy on DVD, don’t you think?

 

So is she remembering the memories of the woman whose memories she had installed?  Or (possibly) Caroline’s memories?

 

And Boyd’s trying to do the right thing!  I knew I liked him!

 

Ah, and there’s the answer about whose memories.

 

“We have a mission!”  I like him.  Lots.

 

“We prefer to call them engagements.”  Oh, she kicks ass.  Ice.  Cold.

 

RIVER AND FAITH!  SO AWESOME!  And yeah, I’ll sign up for date night with the two of them!  Well, really with Tahmoh and Enver, actually.  But Eliza and Summer can be my BFFs.  Though the actual commercial seemed to me pretty disturbing--oh, look at the hot chicks, watch for the hot chicks, they could be anybody at all, as long as they're hot--the sight of the two of them together did make me happy.  If they do it again, I hope it doesn't give off as creepy a vibe.

 

Huh.  If the memory-girl killed herself, how did they get ahold of her memories?

 

How did Echo know about the fridge?  Is it just because that’s what happened to her?

 

DUDE!  Sierra kicks ass!

 

Oooooh!  I really liked the cut from her carrying Davina to walking out of the memory-wipe room.

 

Oooooh!  Alpha!  Awesome!

 

Okay, who’s the naked guy?  And the dead guy?  I mean, guys?

 

GREAT ENDING.

 

And I can honestly say I’ve never been so happy to see a little grr-arghing monster in all my life.

 

I don’t know.  It pretty good.  Intriguing.  With lots of pretty people and the potential for some great development.  But it wasn't on my top-anything list as far as pilots go.  I've seen tons better.  And Eliza didn't convince me that she can be as versatile as this show requires.

But I’m going to take my own advice and not judge anything till a few more episodes in, because Joss’s shows just aren’t the “watch an episode now and then” kind.  I need to see how this all develops before I make any sort of real judgment calls.  The teaser for coming stuff was pretty cool, though.  I'll definitely be sticking with this.

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Comments

[serendipily.livejournal.com]

But she had like ... two lines. *giggles* Don't get me wrong. I wanna like Sierra. Girls with guns always kick ass.

The last part is uber intruiging in a creepy!naked!way.

Eliza doesn't seem all that versitle. Only because we've seen her in a speicic genre, playing practically the same person. We need to see more unfold before everything can be judged.