bad TV is bad

[lolaraincoat]

So fishwhistle and I have been watching Season One of Dollhouse, in fact we just finished watching it, and it has inspired us to write haiku:

Oh, Joss Whedon, why?
Why why why why why why why?
Dollhouse is no good!

Eliza Dushku,
your bony body's a bore.
Please eat a sandwich.

and

Doleful reunions:
Actors from much better shows
wasted on Dollhouse.

The Eliza Dushku one would work as well for every other actress in series, but her name has the requisite number of syllables. I know the one who's playing the neighbor of the FBI guy is supposed to be normalish-shaped, but actually she's nearly as tiny as the rest of them, only bigger-breasted. I don't watch enough TV to know if this is the way women on TV are, or if it's just in Whedon shows that this happens. Don't answer that question, please: it's depressing either way.

But also Dollhouse made me think that a mash-up of Frankenstein and every zombie movie of all time ever, told more or less from the POV of the zombies, might work better if it weren't also intended as homage to those great TV series of yore, Fantasy Island and I Dream of Jeannie. The plane, boss! The plane!

It did, in fact, get slightly better as it went along. We'll probably watch S2 when it comes out on DVD. But we'll hate ourselves a little when we do.





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Comments

[laughingrat]

You could watch lots and lots of silent cinema instead. :-D

Your haiku are the first thing to make me laugh all day. \0/

[idlerat]

I'm watching Angel. I actually think it might be worse. Or maybe that's just my mood. And Angel does have about 1 good episode a season (well, I'm only 1/3 of the way through S2, but that's what it looks like so far...)

I don't get it about Fantasy Island, but I never watched it. I mean, I figure people got to act out their fantasies. But is there a Dollhouse equivalent to "the plane"?

Remember that really great S3 episode of Buffy where she's come back from being Anne and everything's all awkward with her friends and family till the zombies attack and it's hilarious and violent? So awesome. Why can't Joss be awesome? And finally, did you ever watch Firefly? It's much, much better than either Angel or Dollhouse.