Dollhouse: The Good, the Bad & the Ugly

[CowboyGuy]

Tell us what you like, dislike and practically cannot stand (if anything) about Dollhouse!

I've grown into the premise of the show, I am really feeling Jossiness now when I wasn't before. I love Echo, Sierra and Victor (yum!). And I think Ballard is pretty cool, and I wanna know more about him too. Give me more Saunders please!!

I don't really care for Topher. At all.

And please, please PLEASE retire the whole "Did I fall asleep?" bit. It's tired already. We get it!!

The ugliest part of the show has to be the Matrix wanna-be, bullet of fail. Hahaha!

[Lukee]

I didn't like that it was just Echo we saw on missions alto. I mean i know it's Eliza's show but i would like to see some other actives in the mix a little more, and the fact every mission goes wrong and E is needed to be saved by B all the time.

Love Eliza she is doing a great job. I'm loving the whole feel of the show. It's turning out to be a great idea. I like that it is not only the mind they can edit but the body also. It gives me to the show.

I fricking loooooove the idea of Alpha!! I can not wait to see more of that! Like why he let E and Dr S live. woooop!

[Greer]

Well let's see...

I adore Boyd, he's my second favorite, after Echo! Victor is always welcome to my sore eyes, so there can definitely be more of him :]

Topher totally gets on my nerves. I don't like how shady yet cocky he is. He's just like a more annoying Andrew to me(but I love Andrew).

I'm looking forward to seeing Sierra and Echo's friendship get more intense, I like the two of them together. Works for me!

Basically, Topher and Laurence FTL, everyone else FTW.

[Joe]

I love the inner-Dollhouse interactions. The Topher/Claire scenes and the Echo/Victor/Sierra scenes are great and catch my attention!

I agree with Phil on retiring the "Did I fall Asleep" little phrase that happens at least once every episode. It's gettin old!

[henzINNIT]

Always loved the premise, still do. What makes these people still people, even though they shouldn't be anymore? That's just a great, evocative question. I love the tragic moments when Echo's persona's are talking about their future whilst heading for "treatment".

As for characters... Boyd won me over first. He was great in episode 2. All of the characters were too grey to care about for a long time, but the cop (Ballard?) got some nice dialogue in episode 5 and I'm finally starting to care about his mission. It's a shame that I got there after he'd been shot and nearly killed.
I actually kind of like Topher becuase of his near total unlikablility. In a cast of morally ambiguous characters, it's good to have someone you can be sure of, even if you're sure he's a dick.

Boyd and Echo have a cool relationship. It's a fine line between him being the caring guy and a sap though, and I feel like he's already rushed off to free his doll so many times. It's old in only 5 episodes.
Maybe it's because episode 2 was originally a little further into the story, where it would have solidified the relationship after some smaller hints, but it feels like we "got it" in the second week and now we're retreading the same ground.

I have one vote for the ugly...

The mystery of it all.... which is quite frankly - bullshit. (I always thought Joss wasn't great at constructing long term arcs and mysteries, and the show has done nothing but convince me of it. We've watched 314 fizzle, and the largest part of Angel season 4 had us scratching our heads for all the wrong reasons. River's story actually came out quite well I thought, although it may have been aided by a nicely budgeted movie. No-one knows how it would have played on TV.)

This alpha stuff has been shoe-horned into a series of inconsistent stand alone episodes with the subtlety of a luminous green wrecking ball. I've honestly been nothing but distracted by these moments. Too much, too soon. I want to learn about Echo and the Dollhouse before all of this other crap gets in the way, and some of these so called shocker moments (like Victor) couldn't be more obvious. Joss has been away for a while and shows like Lost have raised the bar beyond these cheap reveals in my opinion.
Joss needs to stop wasting his time on looming season finales and build these characters. That's the reason his material works.

[slayersarah]

I like the premise of the show so far and I love Echo & Boyd (and Mellie). for some reason i kinda like Topher... :unsure:

I hate Adelle. i think it's the actress that just gets on my nerves. if they wanted someone British, they could've used Tony Head. and if they wanted a Lilah-type they could've just cast Stephanie Romanov. i really think they could have somehow managed to find someone better. IMHO: her casting = i don't like Laurence either. he keeps things sorta interesting, though.