Rogin

"Briar Rose" swept me clean of my feet last night. I didn't much care for Echo's assignment, but the whole briar rose theme made for a nice frame.

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Just watched the Fox friday night and damn it, that was a good one!

( Terminator )( Dollhouse )

Just saw "Shades of gray" and it was ok. Interesting, a good line once in a while. It's ok. Only this is Joss so I'm kind of expecting more than just "ok" from him. There is the occasional line that gives a hint of what the show could be like, funny enough most of them come from Topher, who makes my skin crawl, but continues to be the most interesting character with the most compelling actor.

I keep wondering why the Jossness of this show is so minimalistic. So far every episode could be cut down to ten minutes of interesting stuff, (quarter of an hour for "Target"). Is it really FOX that makes him make the show dull on purpose? Looks like, because I just read the script of the unaired pilot and it's a world of better than the aired pilot and every episode so far!!! Packed with banter, information and with what made Joss other shows great. The moral issues are discussed much more spot on. Ballard is great in this script, I'd love to see him like that on screen. WTF is FOX thinking? What did they tell Joss? No we can't have people have fun while watching a dark show, that would be to confusing for the pour babies? Argh, I'm starting to hate these people. What made Joss go back to that network? Why not make the show for Showtime or HBO (also they behave less ridiculous about nudity)?

Hopefully word on the net is true and the show will be more like it was originally planned after episode 5.

During all the strike weeks, when everything was on ice it seemed like Dollhouse was never going to happen and if, only in the far distant future. And now there's a trailer! Yay!

I can't say that I'm already in full squee mode over this, because for that I need plot, characters and dialog, but it looks pretty promising to me. Darkish, with a bit of "La femme Nikita" and a tad "Total recall" (the Dick story rather than the movie) and Eliza Dushku is gorgeous. I imagine it must be very cool for an actor to get a role like that where your personality changes every episode, while the character develops an underlying original self.