Dollhouse Archive
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Dearly Departed on DVD: “Firefly”
Posted on July 31, 2010 | 2 CommentsEveryone seems to have a story about their experience with this show. At least, people who have actually heard of it do. And to know “Firefly” is to love “Firefly.” Fans are hard to spot. Most of them don’t look like science fiction fans, but... -
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... -
TV Has Taken Over My Life This Fall…
Posted on November 5, 2009 | No CommentsFor whatever reason this fall, I had a disproportionately high number of shows I was vaguely to seriously interested in. And as someone that has whittled her television watching down to 30 Rock, The Office, a handful of HBO shows (usually about two per “season”)... -
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 Désordre 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...