My last post was over a month ago ... how mortifying. Since then, I spent 3.5 weeks in the U.S. (didn't blog about that) and returned to Germany where unbelievably there's snow on the ground and the temperatures were below freezing for a week (took no photos and did not blog about that either). I'll get my act together eventually (I have high hopes for February through April).
In the meantime, a question. Should I try to watch and keep up with Joss Whedon's new show Dollhouse? Presumably, I have the time, and the technological/geographic difficulties can be worked out one way or another. I predicted correctly that Joss's last television show would have a quick and ignominious death and didn't watch it until several years later. The newest one doesn't scream 'cancellation' quite as hard, but still it's hard to be optimistic.
[Updated 7:12 PM] There is an old post entitled 'Lazy Blogger' (LB). I changed the title of this post from 'Extremely Lazy Blogger' (ELB) to 'Very Lazy Blogger' (VLB), so I could reserve ELB and maybe EVLB for the future. Dorky or brilliant? You decide.
Heh, I was checking out the wiki page for Dollhouse. The premise seems kinda meh to be honest.
ReplyDeleteI think that Whedon is probably more about execution than premise. Buffy was high concept but most people probably didn't get it until they watched it. And I thought then and still think that the concept for Firefly is idiotic (although I quite liked some of the episodes).
ReplyDeleteNothing screams high concept like turning a horrible early 90's vampire movie into a teenage television drama.
ReplyDeleteSince I don't have tv anymore it'd be tough to watch dollhouse unless its on the web somewhere. Maybe I'll just wait for the inevitable cancellation and netflix it.
Oh, and I vote dorky.
My calculation is that if Dollhouse is going to sink like a stone, I should wait and netflix (there is no hurry). If it somehow is a success -- or at least makes it to a second season -- I should try to keep up.
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