Talk About Two Shows That Have Been Taking Up My Time Lately
As I stated in my last post,(or was it the one before it?) I have been watching the show Dollhouse lately. I received the first season for Xmas, and then downloaded and recorded all of the aired episodes from this current season. I've watched them all, and am currently up to date with the episodes yet to air(only 2 left for the series).
Dollhouse suffers from the same thing that other Joss Whedon shows suffer from, that the series starts out a little slow, only to become much better later on during it's run. It happened with Buffy, Angel, and firefly. The first season is about 2/3 so-so, with the rest being pretty good. Epitaph One in particular is really amazing, almost becoming one of my favorite TV episodes of all time(Buff's 'Once More With Feeling' is already in that pantheon).
From there on into the second season, the show really starts to become remarkable. The characters change and are forced to move forward because of their actions from the past. We're not allowed to rest on our laurels as viewers and are forced to change with the characters.
The show is now cancelled, which is a shame. I would have liked to have seen the different paths that the characters would have taken. The best episodes of Buffy were in the last 3 of 7 seasons. Well, it was still good while it lasted.
I know that what I've previously said about Lost in this very blog in the past. That, while interesting in some ways, it's just a so-so show with not a whole lot to offer. I kept watching the seasons though, mostly for the same reasons that I read all of the Twilight books; I just wanted to see if I could discover the reason why so many people liked it. Unlike Twilight, I did find something in Lost. I just became absorbed in the mythology, which seemed to be well thought out and planned.
Not that I need a well planned mythology to like a show. Battlestar Galactica made up everything they did as they went along, and I love that show.
I've allowed myself to become absorbed by the good aspects of the show, even though some of the character stuff is sub-par and boring in my opinion.(Every time there's and episode about that Korean couple I cringe. That storyline is complete hack) I still would take something like Dollhouse any day.
I think the respect for Lost also comes from knowing that Dollhouse, and the way that show works, owes a little something to Lost. Lost helped redefine television for this decade, which deserves some respect, whether you like the show or not.
I should say that I'm currently wading through the back half of the fourth season of Lost, with the fifth season waiting for me in the coming week. So please, NO SPOILERS!!! Thanks a bunch.
On a completely unrelated note, for some reason, the spellcheck doesn't recognize 'dollhouse', but it does recognize 'Buffy'. Weird.
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