I just finished watching season one of Dollhouse last night and I want to write about it. Dollhouse was created by Joss Whedon three years ago, it aired for 2 seasons, and then it joined Firefly as another Joss whedon show that FOX cancelled.
The story for dollhouse is there's a corporation called the Rossum Corporation. They own and operate a dollhouse where they take a volunteer, they take their will, and their coinscience. They strip their mind and leave them only with their basic functions. A client will hire the Rossum Corporation for a job. For example a client will hire the Rossum Corporation for a bank robbery, the Rossum Corporation will take an "active" or a "doll" and upload a complete personality and a complete set of memories and the active will go and rob the bank. The main star of Dollhouse is Eliza Dushku who plays the main active. Also key to the story is there's an FBI agent named Paul Ballard and he's trying to find the Dollhouse and take it down. And there's a rogue active named Alpha who became self aware on assignment, he killed a bunch of people and then left. So the show's a Psychological thriller, a drama, and a mystery.
This is one of the most intrueging show's I've seen recently. My one gripe with this show is that there are some episodes that I call the Inception of TV where you need to really concentrate to understand whats going on. The coolest part of the show was after season one ended people were feeling good about the show. Then that summer at Comic-Con, Joss Whedon showed an un-aired episode called "Epitaph One" and that changed everything people thaught they knew about Dollhouse. The pilot episode thats on the blu-ray and the dvd, is not the original pilot. The original pilot however is a bonus feature on the dvd and blu-ray. I have not checked it out yet I definatley will get around to it. However Epitaph One is the season one finale.
Overall I really like this show. Dollhouse is not Joss Whedon's masterpeice that was and always will be Firefly. However I do have a vandetta against FOX for canceling this show. My advice to Joss whedon is this don't work with FOX ever again. I've heard he's got a show coming up about the workings of S.H.I.E.L.D from The Avengers. I really hope he dosn't sell that show to FOX. I havn't seen season two yet but I've heard that Joss Whedon was able to close up the story. For those any readers who have Netflix you can stream the entire series of Dollhouse. Season one, season two, Epitaph one, Epitaph 2 the return which is the season two finale, and the original pilot. I'm gonna give Dollhouse 4 stars. I'm gonna give a run through of what I'll be reviewing next. I'll review season 2 of Dollhouse when I get it and watch it, I'll review Iron man 3, I'll do a review of the 2009 Star Trek movie before I review Star Trek Into Darkness.
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