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It wasn't really until I saw Adelle with 'Roger' that I went, huh, I TOTALLY get why people might want to hire a doll out. Mostly because I am developing a ridiculous crush on Enver Gjokaj and he was dead sexy with that accent and yeah, it's all kinds of wrong, but Adelle is SO TIGHTLY WOUND. Like, that scene where she confronts Dominic in her home, she's standing on that wooden floor almost exactly in the centre completely ramrod straight. And don't even get me started on the whole getting shot thing. Picspam.
I liked Echo's imprint, because it seems like it was Echo but with some extra abilities and she knew she was a doll. Very unusual. I can't wait to see how her failing to do the trust imprint with the new guy properly will pan out - she trusts Boyd implicitly and yet she's already said no to him asking her about treatments twice, so Travis is probably going to fail completely. November telling Paul about Mellie broke my heart into a million little pieces, and caused me to debate my 'are imprints people?' thoughts with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
baldie_troll some more. Mellie is probably the best example of how the dolls, when they're on engagements, are real people really feeling and experiencing life from that personality's point of view, even if they are a combination of other personalities. Most of the time we don't get to see dolls that way, which makes seeing those personalities as being fake people easier. Mellie is so relatable, I think, particularly for fangirls, and Paul/Mellie was such a wish fulfillment fantasy ship, that it makes it that much sadder when she's ripped from him and he has no time to adjust. Imagine it, someone you love just...doesn't exist as a human being with a past and future, was created just to spy on you without her even knowing. Also, do you think Mellie will ping to the fact that she saw Caroline/Echo, and she was in the Dollhouse? That she's a doll?
Save One Show. I'm sad that Chuck is apparently failing, as I do rather love it, but obviously I'm rooting for Dollhouse here.
Tim Minear talks about the ubiquitous 'Epitaph One'. Poor Felicia probably got in a shitload of trouble for that one.
The 'Dollhouse' situation and what Whedon should do next.
Joss Whedon Accepts Award, Drops Dollhouse Hints, Names Winner Of Buffy/River Fight. He seems very pessimistic about the show's chances of being picked up again, but that seems to just be conjecture. It makes me sad. Other things in there make me much less sad.
This Dollhouse poll interested me - I haven't been keeping up with the show's reception online, as I was annoyed with all the negativity surrounding it and I watch and debrief with Jamie generally, so I was surprised to see who is liked and who isn't.
DO WANT. DO WANT RIGHT NOW. 'Curse your sudden but inveitable betrayal' t-shirt!!! FOR THE WIN.
New Zealand interview of Zachary Quinto and my boy Chris Pine, who discusses his mancrushes and makes me love him more than I already do, which is a lot. I'm still pretty sure ZQ is gay.
Common Rotation & John DiMaggio cover M.I.A.'s Paper Planes.
ABC to air the last few eps of Pushing Daisies in graveyard shift as filler. Rat bastard jerk asshats.
corellianjedi linked to this awesome Han/Leia picspam, and I checked out the picspam maker's other spams and came across some gems: Batman: The Movie (the riddles! the colours!), The Breakfast Club, Serenity.
Pretty icons, mostly Lost.
Tonight I saw Southland Tales
This wasn't...bad. Well, I can't tell if it was bad or not. It was definitely unusual and striking and intriguing, kind of an auteur vision, and may have been made more comprehensible if all the stuff that was cut out had been left in. I think I understood pretty much everything that was there to be understood - time travel and paradoxes and stuff are my bread and butter, and that stuff really kept me involved - and it looked really cool and interesting, for the most part. Southland Tales seemed kind of myopic in its vision of the world ending, though, and a lot of the lines were cheesy beyong belief and poorly read.
I couldn't help feeling that it would be greatly improved by less 'wacky' casting. SMG sucks in pretty much everything since Buffy, and The Rock has his use but I don't think this was it, and whole chunks of the casting seemed just off. For some reason, there were loads of comedians in non-comedic roles, and Bai Ling was in it, which is NEVER a good thing. Oddly, about the only person I really got and liked in this was Justin Timberlake, which appears to just be against-type, offbeat casting (like almost everyone else) but actually worked quite well. Although, why cast a singer, have him in a musical scene and...not have him sing?
3 out of 5
I'm a pimp, and pimps don't commit suicide
Green Queen
I liked Echo's imprint, because it seems like it was Echo but with some extra abilities and she knew she was a doll. Very unusual. I can't wait to see how her failing to do the trust imprint with the new guy properly will pan out - she trusts Boyd implicitly and yet she's already said no to him asking her about treatments twice, so Travis is probably going to fail completely. November telling Paul about Mellie broke my heart into a million little pieces, and caused me to debate my 'are imprints people?' thoughts with
baldie_troll some more. Mellie is probably the best example of how the dolls, when they're on engagements, are real people really feeling and experiencing life from that personality's point of view, even if they are a combination of other personalities. Most of the time we don't get to see dolls that way, which makes seeing those personalities as being fake people easier. Mellie is so relatable, I think, particularly for fangirls, and Paul/Mellie was such a wish fulfillment fantasy ship, that it makes it that much sadder when she's ripped from him and he has no time to adjust. Imagine it, someone you love just...doesn't exist as a human being with a past and future, was created just to spy on you without her even knowing. Also, do you think Mellie will ping to the fact that she saw Caroline/Echo, and she was in the Dollhouse? That she's a doll?Save One Show. I'm sad that Chuck is apparently failing, as I do rather love it, but obviously I'm rooting for Dollhouse here.
Tim Minear talks about the ubiquitous 'Epitaph One'. Poor Felicia probably got in a shitload of trouble for that one.
The 'Dollhouse' situation and what Whedon should do next.
Joss Whedon Accepts Award, Drops Dollhouse Hints, Names Winner Of Buffy/River Fight. He seems very pessimistic about the show's chances of being picked up again, but that seems to just be conjecture. It makes me sad. Other things in there make me much less sad.
This Dollhouse poll interested me - I haven't been keeping up with the show's reception online, as I was annoyed with all the negativity surrounding it and I watch and debrief with Jamie generally, so I was surprised to see who is liked and who isn't.
DO WANT. DO WANT RIGHT NOW. 'Curse your sudden but inveitable betrayal' t-shirt!!! FOR THE WIN.
New Zealand interview of Zachary Quinto and my boy Chris Pine, who discusses his mancrushes and makes me love him more than I already do, which is a lot. I'm still pretty sure ZQ is gay.
Common Rotation & John DiMaggio cover M.I.A.'s Paper Planes.
ABC to air the last few eps of Pushing Daisies in graveyard shift as filler. Rat bastard jerk asshats.
corellianjedi linked to this awesome Han/Leia picspam, and I checked out the picspam maker's other spams and came across some gems: Batman: The Movie (the riddles! the colours!), The Breakfast Club, Serenity.Pretty icons, mostly Lost.
Tonight I saw Southland Tales
This wasn't...bad. Well, I can't tell if it was bad or not. It was definitely unusual and striking and intriguing, kind of an auteur vision, and may have been made more comprehensible if all the stuff that was cut out had been left in. I think I understood pretty much everything that was there to be understood - time travel and paradoxes and stuff are my bread and butter, and that stuff really kept me involved - and it looked really cool and interesting, for the most part. Southland Tales seemed kind of myopic in its vision of the world ending, though, and a lot of the lines were cheesy beyong belief and poorly read.
I couldn't help feeling that it would be greatly improved by less 'wacky' casting. SMG sucks in pretty much everything since Buffy, and The Rock has his use but I don't think this was it, and whole chunks of the casting seemed just off. For some reason, there were loads of comedians in non-comedic roles, and Bai Ling was in it, which is NEVER a good thing. Oddly, about the only person I really got and liked in this was Justin Timberlake, which appears to just be against-type, offbeat casting (like almost everyone else) but actually worked quite well. Although, why cast a singer, have him in a musical scene and...not have him sing?
3 out of 5
I'm a pimp, and pimps don't commit suicide
Green Queen