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Mothra

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Re: Dollhouse
« Reply #40 on: April 25, 2011, 06:49:05 AM »

Watched this while sick over the weekend. Excellent second season. As expected, once they ditched the episodic stuff this show got really damn good, really damn fast.

Second-to-last episode seemed rushed and muddled, at least from a creativity standpoint. They go into the [spoiler]evil genius' HQ and take out the reactor[/spoiler]? Really? Also Penikett got a touch tiresome by the end... guy can't do softer emotion too well.

But! So much to love. Topher really came into his own this season, as did Victor, unexpectedly. Alpha was excellent in every role he appeared.

Honestly expected [spoiler]Alpha to surface the Paul persona inside of him for Echo[/spoiler], rather than what they ended up doing.

Loved seeing [spoiler]Dominic[/spoiler] back, as a total badass this time around. I can only assume he's either still in the Attic or has been released during the [spoiler]ten year[/spoiler] gap.

And one of the coolest and least-expected endgames of any show of this kind. Really did not expect them to go as far as they did, and it was so much better for it.
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Re: Dollhouse
« Reply #41 on: April 25, 2011, 07:24:10 AM »

Double spoilers?
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Re: Dollhouse
« Reply #42 on: April 25, 2011, 10:34:25 AM »

Whoa, had a /quote in there somewhere.
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Re: Dollhouse
« Reply #43 on: April 25, 2011, 11:43:02 AM »

Apparently the comic IS going to cover Alpha's story, which was the only dangling thread I was interested in seeing explored.  So that could be good.
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Re: Dollhouse
« Reply #44 on: July 18, 2011, 03:38:10 PM »

I never got around to reading Serenity: The Shepherd's Tale, but I've read enough reviews of it to read Dollhouse: Epitaphs #1 and realize that Jed Whedon is doing exactly the same thing here that he did there: promising to answer the big questions and then utterly failing to do so.

To wit: the story starts after Alpha has ALREADY changed from a sociopath to one of the good guys.  No explanation for the change is given.
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