Am I Dollhouse obsessed?

Two more interesting pieces to read:  here and here.

I actually have a LOT of things planned to post…I just can’t seem to get around to it right now.  What’s the rest of yous’ excuses???   HA!

Thinking thoughtful thoughts.

Very interesting post here on Dollhouse.  (Found via Whedonesque.)  I don’t agree with a lot of it, but it’s well argued.  (Her Topher = Whedon comments are particularly interesting.)

Perusing the rest of her blog, I completely do NOT agree with her feelings on Battlestar’s finale, but it’s still really hilarious to read.

And in other random thoughts: so I’m thinking that My Future Husband a) will NOT be at Dragoncon IF Dollhouse gets a season 2 pickup (with regular Fall start vs. midyear); but b) will likely BE at Dragoncon IF Dollhouse gets cancelled.  Hard to know what to wish for.  See there for rlz (again)?  Or see every week on TV?  Sigh.

The CSI BStarG/Star Trek callout was AWESOME!!

Anyone else watch it?  I knew Ron Moore & “Ellen Tigh” were going to appear but there were a few other cameos as well.  Hi Grace Park!!!  Hi “Tory”!

I guess no one wants to write…but maybe you want to read?

So:  here are some very insightful, well thoughtout reviews of Dollhouse that make me reconsider some things but not others (Topher is heinous. Someone that amoral can NEVER be the funny character, it just doesn’t ring true.).  And here is a great review of Wednesday’s LOST.  Man I LOVED that episode. I had no idea I was such a Miles fan!!  And here’s the LOST post I found that through. 

And if you loved last night’s CSI and want to read more about it, you can go here and here.  CSI has gotten (or ”returned to being”) soooo good this season.  You know, ever since David Weddle & Bradley Thompson of BStarG took over the writing/producing duties.  YAY!

In which I stand corrected.

So…is anyone watching Kings?

We had seen a loooong horribly cheesy ridiculous preview for it at the movie theater one day.  You know, those “pre-previews” TV ads they do nowadays.  Yeah, it looked bad and I mean Really Bad.

Then Maureen Ryan wrote it up and liked it and I was like “Eh, what? SRSLY?”

Yeah, I just watched the premiere episode on Hulu.  It IS pretty good!  (so far anyway) Whattup!  Some actually intriguing religion vs. politics dynamics are taken in a direction I would NOT have expected having seen that HORRIBLE preview at the movies.  Which, I mean, seriously?  Seems to have been put together by people who have NO CLUE on how to promote something and make it look intelligent and interesting.

I’m off to watch Episode 2.  Will it continue to keep me engaged?  I hope so!

Coming soon, I start warming up to Castle as well… (WHA?)

Dear President Obama,

I heard you’re depressed now that BStarG is over.

Believe me, I know just how you feel.

Smooches, Duff.

I’ve read it a few times now…

And there’s really only one thing I disagree with in this review of the first seven Dollhouse episodes.

(I’m pretty sure you can spot the sentence I disagree with.)

It continues to be pretty disappointing.

DadReaction: BStarG Series Finale

I’ll try to get around to writing up my own reaction shortly…but thought I’d post Dad’s comments to get our conversation started.

I was REALLY worried he wouldn’t like it since the last communique I got before sending it to him was “(Esp. wondering:  what is Starbuck?)”.  And “Having mixed feelings.”

Dad: Last Communique from Eagle Bend Actual: Feelings got unmixed.  GREAT ending.

SO SAY WE ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Interestingly, Kara’s resolution was one of the (many) parts I thought was perfect.  Mysterious AND indispensable to the end.  But what a powerful use of flashbacks to her (looking tres cute with short hair) and Lee–and that pigeon!  Like Chinese poetry: beauty beyond words. Speaking of flashbacks, the Boomer flashback, when she tells Adama she’ll pay him back when it means something was just overwhelming: to go from the carnage to the quiet office scene before she even knew who she was. (I can’t believe I’m choking up as I’m typing this.)  And I loved the Chief freaking out when he realizes what’s her name killed Calley–”Fuck eternal universal peace!!  Die, bitch!!”

And just how hot did Six look in combat gear!   Speaking of, though–what a gutsy choice for a last scene!!  To fade out with Six and Baltar!!!!  The love affair that almost wiped out the human race!  But a GREAT curve for a show full of curves.  Perfecto from this viewer.

So many wonderful moments:  Kara at the FTL drive and you know she’s got the guts to follow her craziest bet; the Pres dying slowly on the plain; Cottle being Cottle; Baltar breaking down when he thinks about farming; Lampkin being president!! with his dog!; Adama and Kara hugging after their funny little back and forth; Cavil always snarling at his fellow cylons, then blowing his brains out; well, all the ones the critics mentioned–Anders flying into the sun, great battle effects… (Though I have to say I was apparently in the minority by NOT being thrilled at cylon vs cylon combat–were you?)

And such a beautiful rhythm to the end, the slow cruise of who’s left.  (Again, I’m apparently in the minority of those who think the Lord of the Rings ending was super, but this had that same, stately wrap-up.)  But I must repeat:  to do that, to have the admiral sitting next to Laura’s grave, you’ve got your shot from the sky and then…you cut to Six and Baltar 150,000 years later, with the bantering of the (perhaps) gods.  No kidding–my hat is off to these artists!!  (Two of my favorite modern plays did something similar–Shaw’s Saint Joan and O”Casey’s Juno and the Paycock: set up standard endings–some people apparently were even leaving their seats–and threw in a last scene from left field.  Polarizing, too.)

Oh, and I loved when head-Baltar said “Well, God’s plans are never done” and real Baltar says “Oh, great”.

One more comment about Boomer’s flashback:  took me back to another Peckinpah film–Cross of Iron–during the last battle, they cut back to shots of the platoon in the earlier days and one kid especially floors you because you see him from his first day reporting “Private Dietz, sir!”. And it’s so unexpected it floors you.  In a way, Kara and Lee’s was smoother, because they were so central and you knew they had history together: but when they cut to Boomer when she’s just about washing out and Tigh and Adama are riddling her–wow.

Thanks for the intro to this wonderful creation.
So say we all.

Six-Word Review of First Five Episodes of Dollhouse: Too Much Eliza; Not Enough Tahmoh.

SixSeven*-word review of Episode Six of Dollhouse: Almost perfect amount of nearly naked Tahmoh.

On the other hand, this episode being great on its own, it has some SERIOUS continuity issues with the previous five. 

Say, for example, in every other episode, His Hotness BARELY even looks at KnockersNeighbor, despite her cleavage baring tops and pyrexes of crazy amounts of food.  Yet this episode not only is he more than making out with her, he’s sitting around chit-chatting about his case with her and acting like, you know, they’ve actually been TALKING for the past five episodes.  Huge leap there.

And that’s just ONE example.  I’m glad they finally showed a good episode of this show…but it’s hard to see how they’re going to save it given the ratings and the more serious issue of how do you bring the episodes back into correlation if some were changed so severely as to make no sense?

The entire situation is frustrating.  But you know, I’ll watch it if only for… [I don't really need to say it at this point, do I?]

*still learning to count over here.

Bones just broke my dad.

So I have gotten a number of hilarious emails from my Dad who is Very Very Upset about the way they ended Bones last spring.  Very.

But Carrie, are you caught up?  I don’t want to spoiler you on that one.  It’s pretty big.  Lemme know, yo. 

Dear Greg Berlanti, you’re kinda pissing me off.

Is it not possible to have JUST ONE functional relationship on Brothers & Sisters?  Do we really NEED to go there with Justin & ‘Becca? 

That Ryan dude is giving Richard on Lost a run for his eyelinered/mascaraed money and I am so beyond irritated with that particular storyline.

Sincerely, Everwood was a better show and I still miss it, Duff.

Also: YAY for Julia for telling Tommy to stay away.

Love Kitty’s new playground friend… Took me awhile to recognize him as the big brother from Eli Stone, but that actually made me like him even more; he’s so different here.  I never thought Rob Lowe could make me hate a character, but he has accomplished that fact.