Dollhouse Episode 13
Jul. 20th, 2009 04:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alias_sqbrAs I discussed in Brief thoughts on the moral messages I got from Dollhouse, the good sf in Dollhouse (eps 1-12) was ruined for me by all the skeevy creepiness.
But! I just watched episode 13(*) and apart from a single gratuitous shower scene it really wasn't very skeevy at all. It's set ten years in the future when the mind-rewrite technology is totally not about prostitution any more, and had a bunch of cool sf. It mostly follows an entirely new cast and even summarised the main plot and concepts of the previous 12 episodes. I might be wrong but I think it would probably mostly make sense if you hadn't seen the show at all, though some scenes would seem totally random and a lot of the emotional depth would be missing. Huge spoilers, mind you, plus it would ruin you for the show by raising your expectations :)
So: recced to anyone who can't bring themselves to watch the show and feels like they're missing out, especially if you've watched the pilot so know the basic backstory. And I don't feel confident saying it's definitely not triggery but it's certainly better than a lot of the rest of the show.
I feel like soemone should edit out the good bits of the show into a shorter less creepy version. You'd get maybe 1 episode from the first 5, and then maybe 5 from the next seven :)
(*)Which was made for the dvd and not shown on American tv
But! I just watched episode 13(*) and apart from a single gratuitous shower scene it really wasn't very skeevy at all. It's set ten years in the future when the mind-rewrite technology is totally not about prostitution any more, and had a bunch of cool sf. It mostly follows an entirely new cast and even summarised the main plot and concepts of the previous 12 episodes. I might be wrong but I think it would probably mostly make sense if you hadn't seen the show at all, though some scenes would seem totally random and a lot of the emotional depth would be missing. Huge spoilers, mind you, plus it would ruin you for the show by raising your expectations :)
So: recced to anyone who can't bring themselves to watch the show and feels like they're missing out, especially if you've watched the pilot so know the basic backstory. And I don't feel confident saying it's definitely not triggery but it's certainly better than a lot of the rest of the show.
I feel like soemone should edit out the good bits of the show into a shorter less creepy version. You'd get maybe 1 episode from the first 5, and then maybe 5 from the next seven :)
(*)Which was made for the dvd and not shown on American tv
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Date: 2009-07-20 02:09 pm (UTC)*goes and pokes around website*
*kicks things*
*goes and pokes around the library catalog*
*kicks more things*
*refuses to read your post out of spite, but calls it "for fear of spoilers"*
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Date: 2009-07-21 05:11 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-07-21 05:50 am (UTC)*sulks*
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Date: 2009-07-23 07:20 am (UTC)We of course watched the dvd. Magically. From the future. Not by illegal downloading, oh no. Because that would be wrong.