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

[lolaraincoat]

I'd hate to blame poor innocent vampires for all this terrible film and television. I think Joss was replaced by a kind of Star-Trek-Mirror-'verse Joss, who can't write and can't plot anything and hates women. That's what I think.

[idlerat]

Yeah, the incompetence doesn't worry me as much as the evil. I don't think Serenity was woman-hating -- I think it was more evil on the Wolfram & Hart model.

And Dollhouse - it's not just the woman hating. It's more global. Women and men are both just toys.

Killing Wash, the conscience of Firefly, was the first decisive step in his Satanic pact.