Dollhouse Archive
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Another Decade in Science Fiction
Posted on January 10, 2010 | No CommentsLast year (that’s 2009) cable’s foremost source for time travel, space travel, and scantily-clad aliens shocked fans with a controversial name change—from Sci-Fi to Syfy. Personally, I like it. The fandom needs to be shaken up (science fiction should never have an orthodoxy), and the... -
Dollhouse Riffs: Riff #7: Dollhouse sent to the Attic
Posted on November 13, 2009 | No CommentsGood bye, Echo. Sent to the Attic Echo: Everyone’s unhappy today. Topher: Somebody put her tiny little thinking cap on! Spy in the House of Love The inevitable has occurred. Dollhouse, the science fiction series masterminded by Joss Whedon, fought against dismal ratings and executive... -
Dollhouse: “Becoming”
Posted on October 30, 2009 | No CommentsThe structure of the Fox science fiction series, Dollhouse, makes it very easy to end up with a “mission of the week” format. Joss Whedon’s series about people who have their memories and personality erased in order to have then replaced by memories and personality... -
Dollhouse Riffs: Riff #6: The Sierra Club; or Human Labor-power, Commodity Fetishism, and Workplace Rape
Posted on October 26, 2009 | No Comments“Belonging,” this week’s episode of Dollhouse, is icky. Icky in the way it plumbs the depths of human depravity and explores the darkness beneath the organization’s philanthropic veneer. -
Dollhouse Riffs: Riff #5: Belle Chose et le DĂ©sordre des Choses (The Disorder of Things)
Posted on October 16, 2009 | No CommentsBelle Chose Dollhouse’s third episode into the season explores the issues of performance and gender. Entitled Belle Chose (French for “Pretty Things”), the episode begins with a bizarre performance of sorts. A weird male, in a nondescript room that appears transplanted from a mini-mall, is... -
Dollhouse Riffs: Riff #4: Season Openers
Posted on October 6, 2009 | No CommentsJoss Whedon’s Dollhouse opened with the episodes “Vows” and “Instinct,” bringing new faces like Jamie Bamber and Alexis Denisof. The season also began with a critique of two idols within the conservative mindset: marriage and motherhood. In “Vows,” the Dollhouse organization imprints Echo with the...