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I just found out that Dollhouse is being

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renewed by Fox for another season.

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It’s a Joss Whedon TV show so I wanted to

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give it a chance when it first started.

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Dollhouse is a show about a bunch of people

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who get there brains wiped and then new

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personalities and experiences and

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memories get put into their heads and they

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can exist as that person for X amount of time

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and they get hired out by

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clients to perform various tasks.

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Most of the “engagements” are men

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trying to fulfill a fantasy.

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Dollhouse is really a glorified brothel.

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Dollhouse is really misogynistic

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I don’t know what other word to describe it

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as. There is a big issue that hasn't

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really been raised about whether this is rape

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or not. It’s been talked about online a little bit

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but the show hasn’t dealt with this issue at all.

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So they sign these contracts saying

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that they’ll be in Dollhouse for X amount of

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years and their conscious mind

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isn’t around so they can’t consent to every

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single engagement that they go on.

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Now if you can’t consent then

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that would be rape right?

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In Dollhouse we as the viewer are supposed

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to condemn the dollhouse, we’re not

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supposed to like it, we’re supposed to think

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it’s morally and ethically wrong

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to do these things to these people yet we

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identify with all of the characters

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in the dollhouse.

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So Boyd the handler, you think he’s pretty

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cool because he seems to have issues with

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what’s going on, yet

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he still continues to work there.

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The woman who runs the place

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towards the end of the season we start to

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get more of an emotional grasp on her

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and her character becomes a little more

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more entrenched in who she is and not,

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you know, not hating her.

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Tofur the crazy scientist,

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you totally think he’s funny and witty and

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smart and goofy

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you don’t really take him too seriously.

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If we’re not supposed to like dollhouse

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which I think we’re not supposed to

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then why are we sympathetic with all of the

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characters inside of the dollhouse?

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Joss Whedon on Whedonesque.com

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was quoted as saying that part of the pitch

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to renew for a second season was that they

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were going to go in the direction of

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the season finale.

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I think we have enough crazy, serial killing,

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murdering men on television that we don’t

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need to add to the repertoire with Dollhouse.

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The season finale was just blah

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cover my ears

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cover my eyes

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I didn’t want to watch a single other episode

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of Dollhouse after that.

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It was just so grotesquely violent

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it was unnecessary

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it’s this crazy maniacal guy who was

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damaged by the dollhouse

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(which were sympathetic to right?)

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doing all these crazy things

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so now he becomes the enemy and the

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dollhouse is kind of in that grey

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middle zone area.

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This news is troubling in that I really

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didn’t want Terminator: the Sarah Connor

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Chronicles to get cancelled.

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I thought it was a really good show.

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I felt like the story line and the characters

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were really complex.

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They made complicated relationships

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between each other and the characters

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evolved in interesting ways that I thought

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could grow over another couple of seasons.

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Also the show is based on the Terminator

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movies which most of us have

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probably seen that are kind of big macho

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fests about you know

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gore and violence and

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blowing things up and robots

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the whole sci fi chase scene

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GRAAA thing

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But Sarah Connor, although it had those

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elements, was actually really smart.

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It fused together the action part of the sci fi

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genre but it also brought in character

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development was really well done.

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The show is also mostly about a woman

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she’s an independent, tough, single mom

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that’s trying to protect her son.

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The other main character on the show

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is a representation of a teenage woman

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who although she’s a robot

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you still see as young female.

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She’s empowered, she’s smart

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she’s strong

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these are all good things to have on

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television I think.

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I think looking really critically at why a show

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like Dollhouse is getting renewed

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and the Sarah Connor Chronicles are not

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The Sarah Connor Chronicles really took its

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time and sometimes it was a little slow

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moving because they really did a lot of

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character development

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and really built up a story line

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so you really became attached to what

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was going on and really invested.

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Where Dollhouse you met a new

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character every week.

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It wasn’t really super complicated you didn’t

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have a lot of character development

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There were a few things here and there

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where the main character Echo

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started to remember her old past

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but even then it wasn’t that interesting

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and it was kind of the same old same old.

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There was a really interesting article

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in the Washington Post that talked

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about how Dollhouse was produced

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by Fox and aired on the Network of Fox

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so they have more invested in that

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financially and can make more profits.

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Where Sarah Connor was produced by

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Warner Brothers aired on Fox

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there’s not as much financial investment.

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I know that Joss Whedon is capable of

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writing really good quality television

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that’s critical and analytical

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and has social commentary while still

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being entertaining and fun.

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So I don’t know why he can’t do that again.