All the most reliable "sources" say Dollhouse gets a second season - although with budget cuts and standard-length episodes. Apparently the Fox execs really liked the second half of the season, which was of course the part after they stop tried to make it a conventional show, so screw them either way.
I've had good long discussions with![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
jessikast on the issue of whether this deserved to happen. Although she disagrees, I actually like it better than Firefly. But that's because Jess likes character-driven stories, and I like concept-driven stories. (Indeed, Dollhouse is the precise opposite - a lack-of-character-driven story.) It's also why I'm a fan of Faction Paradox, which is as high-concept as you get while still being comprehensible to people without degrees in the humanities.
Also: the American Socialist Worker backs Dollhouse, even though I think their analysis is the kind of literal-minded black-and-white reading which gives Marxist cultural criticism a bad name. The last paragraph in particular is ridiculous, given that as Marxists they should know that what the Dollhouse does is simply a metaphor for what happens in the real world of horrible jobs anyway (cf. Althusser's speculation on "interpellated" identity), so a real revolutionary conclusion would be the Dolls seizing the Dollhouse and using its technology for the good of all mankind. Which makes Alpha Stalin, I suppose.
So! Those of you who care, what could they do to make season 2 better? I say: much less Echo. Eliza Dushku, Goddess bless her, is not a stellar actor of the range of Alan Tudyk and Enver Gjokaj, who have been actually making it believable that you can flip the switch and someone can be a completely different person.
I've had good long discussions with
jessikast on the issue of whether this deserved to happen. Although she disagrees, I actually like it better than Firefly. But that's because Jess likes character-driven stories, and I like concept-driven stories. (Indeed, Dollhouse is the precise opposite - a lack-of-character-driven story.) It's also why I'm a fan of Faction Paradox, which is as high-concept as you get while still being comprehensible to people without degrees in the humanities.Also: the American Socialist Worker backs Dollhouse, even though I think their analysis is the kind of literal-minded black-and-white reading which gives Marxist cultural criticism a bad name. The last paragraph in particular is ridiculous, given that as Marxists they should know that what the Dollhouse does is simply a metaphor for what happens in the real world of horrible jobs anyway (cf. Althusser's speculation on "interpellated" identity), so a real revolutionary conclusion would be the Dolls seizing the Dollhouse and using its technology for the good of all mankind. Which makes Alpha Stalin, I suppose.
So! Those of you who care, what could they do to make season 2 better? I say: much less Echo. Eliza Dushku, Goddess bless her, is not a stellar actor of the range of Alan Tudyk and Enver Gjokaj, who have been actually making it believable that you can flip the switch and someone can be a completely different person.
