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craigoxbrow ([personal profile] craigoxbrow) wrote2009-09-08 05:30 pm

The lights are on but nobody's home...

Dollhouse s1 did indeed reach DVD shelves yesterday, including my DVD shelf. Having held off on watching the last four regular episodes on Hulu (due to "small screen which skews dark" issues) I got to appreciate them in proper size. And thirteen and a half episodes, three with commentary, for £19.99. Of course, I'd already gotten more than one big ol' spoiler but what can one do without memory-removal tech?

And yeah, other than the pilot commentary, I skipped the first disc and three of the pre- Man In The Street assignment-of-the-week shows.

Watching the original pilot, now about 30% recycled into setup in the first half of the season but with the spine of the story now wholly de-canon-ified, was certainly interesting. (And makes the lack of the pilot on the Being Human DVD that bit more aggravating.)

And of course there's Epitaph One, the thirteenth episode of the twelve, which takes and runs, and whose implications are... gonna be a bit complicated.

[identity profile] hortorum.livejournal.com 2009-09-08 08:00 pm (UTC)(link)
I will be interested to see how series 2 goes, with Epitaph One looming over the continuity.

In a way, I though that episode would have played a role like that of the coda Hewitt-Wolfe wrote for Andromeda (I mentally edit reality, for me Andromeda was cancelled when he left and the Sorbo helmed abomination didn't happen) apart from the fact there's a series after it of course.

By the by, have you read any Richard Morgan? The Takeshi Kovacs novels remind me a lot of some of the Dollhouse themes.

[identity profile] craigoxbrow.livejournal.com 2009-09-09 12:07 am (UTC)(link)
Indeed.

If you say so, didn't watch it...

And no, but I know a bit in passing.

Watching Chuck on V1 is an interesting contrast - similar tech implications which they're obviously not going to play with on any such sociological or philosophical level...

[identity profile] hortorum.livejournal.com 2009-09-09 07:34 am (UTC)(link)
Indeed.

If you say so, didn't watch it...


It's... interesting, not at all what I was expecting, almost a premise for a series all its' own.

And no, but I know a bit in passing.
It made me wonder why the Dollhouses weren't investing heavily in human cloning :)

Watching Chuck on V1 is an interesting contrast - similar tech implications which they're obviously not going to play with on any such sociological or philosophical level...

Someone else who likes Chuck, excellent :) Yeah, it's lightweight fun and you can't go too far wrong with Adam Baldwin as Casey really.

I doubt they'll ever delve into the transhumanist agenda in that show, in the same way that I'll be surprised if we get much of a debate about the Manachaeist heresy on 'Reaper' (Although if it were 'Dogma : The series' we might I suppose)

[identity profile] sasori.livejournal.com 2009-09-09 07:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Chuck is good, well worth watching, though on a completely different level from Dollhouse.

End of season 2 (as in the last scene) means season 3 (if it happens) will have to take a different tack, so maybe there'll be some more crossover in themes, but otherwise no.

Casey rocks!

[identity profile] craigoxbrow.livejournal.com 2009-09-12 10:16 pm (UTC)(link)
I see... Or will, as I haven't gotten there yet.

The 3D episode was last week. It mostly made everybody look blue.

[identity profile] joedizzy.livejournal.com 2009-09-08 08:39 pm (UTC)(link)
How did you get Hulu to work?

[identity profile] craigoxbrow.livejournal.com 2009-09-09 12:10 am (UTC)(link)
Crime!

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