Thoughts on Dollhouse 1x01

Yay, we have yet another brand new Joss canon to play with! Various rambly thoughts on the first Dollhouse episode under the cut. Not proper meta, though I'm sure there'll be some of that in the future too; it looks to be an interesting show.

( Speak out of turn again and I will scold you. )

ETA: One thing that struck me about the Case of the week (COTW): it's not exactly the most exciting case, but it works, and it's interesting that it's very similar to the one used in the pilot episode of The Shield, which I always thought of as the lost Mutant Enemy show. The case itself doesn't offer a lot of ethical conundrums; nobody's going to ask if saving a little girl from a child molester is really the right thing to do. But as in The Shield, where it's used to show us just what kind of man Vic Mackey is and what he'll do to solve a case, the morally simple COTW is used to highlight how the people trying to solve the case work. The plot serves the characters, not the other way around.

VIC: Good cop and bad cop left town; I'm a different kind of cop.

Thoughts on Dollhouse 1x01

Yay, we have yet another brand new Joss canon to play with! Various rambly thoughts on the first Dollhouse episode under the cut. Not proper meta, though I'm sure there'll be some of that in the future too; it looks to be an interesting show.

( Speak out of turn again and I will scold you. )

ETA: One thing that struck me about the Case of the week (COTW): it's not exactly the most exciting case, but it works, and it's interesting that it's very similar to the one used in the pilot episode of The Shield, which I always thought of as the lost Mutant Enemy show. The case itself doesn't offer a lot of ethical conundrums; nobody's going to ask if saving a little girl from a child molester is really the right thing to do. But as in The Shield, where it's used to show us just what kind of man Vic Mackey is and what he'll do to solve a case, the morally simple COTW is used to highlight how the people trying to solve the case work. The plot serves the characters, not the other way around.

VIC: Good cop and bad cop left town; I'm a different kind of cop.