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More on the Dollhouse pilot
Feb. 15th, 2009 05:36 pmThere is a lot of Dollhouse-hating going on. A lot of people are disgusted with the premise, and that's cool. I was trying to figure out what about me made me okay with it, and then I read ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
oyceter's post. I will get to the brunt of her post later, but when she noted the amnesia and the doll bits are right up my manga kink alley. , I went, "Oh! Right."
The reason why the premise of the show doesn't make it un-watchable for me is because I have seen a lot of anime. This is a workable premise, people. It can be done!
Let's take the 13-episode anime series Gunslinger Girl.
The main cast is made up of pre-pubescent girls who work for "the Social Welfare Agency" in Italy. The agency acquires girls who have been injured and about to die, and trains them to be tools for their counter-terrorism unit. The girls are given super-strength and intensive training on weapons, memory capabilities, etc. Sounds like the perfect plan, right? Who would suspect little girls with violin cases?
Each young girl is paired with a handler, a man at least 20 years her senior. Taken right from the Wikipedia page:
Sounds skeevy and uncomfortable, right?
It's actually one of the better anime series I've seen. It made me cry!
So, yeah. I guess Gunslinger Girl factors in hugely to why premise alone is not enough to turn me off to a series. It can be skeevy as fuck, but sometimes it can work.
[Likewise, a lot of people often try to sell me on books/movies/TV shows by saying, 'Oh, it's a culture like X combatting Y, and it has Z really cool element.' And I'm like, okay, but I still don't know if it's good.]
Setting all that aside, there has been a lot of commentary online today, from people watching the show. From what I've seen, I'm one of the few inclined to watch more! Their comments have spoilers for the first episode only, so don't click if you haven't had time to watch yet. If you have, please do! Being meta is the best part about TV.
( Spoilers for Dollhouse, 1.1 )
oyceter's post. I will get to the brunt of her post later, but when she noted the amnesia and the doll bits are right up my manga kink alley. , I went, "Oh! Right."The reason why the premise of the show doesn't make it un-watchable for me is because I have seen a lot of anime. This is a workable premise, people. It can be done!
Let's take the 13-episode anime series Gunslinger Girl.
The main cast is made up of pre-pubescent girls who work for "the Social Welfare Agency" in Italy. The agency acquires girls who have been injured and about to die, and trains them to be tools for their counter-terrorism unit. The girls are given super-strength and intensive training on weapons, memory capabilities, etc. Sounds like the perfect plan, right? Who would suspect little girls with violin cases?
Each young girl is paired with a handler, a man at least 20 years her senior. Taken right from the Wikipedia page:
The handler is responsible for the training, welfare and field performance of his charge, and is free to use whatever methods he considers suitable. While these methods vary according to the handler, a common part of each girl's regimen is brainwashing called "conditioning", which produces a deadly assassin with unquestioning loyalty to her handler.
Sounds skeevy and uncomfortable, right?
It's actually one of the better anime series I've seen. It made me cry!
So, yeah. I guess Gunslinger Girl factors in hugely to why premise alone is not enough to turn me off to a series. It can be skeevy as fuck, but sometimes it can work.
[Likewise, a lot of people often try to sell me on books/movies/TV shows by saying, 'Oh, it's a culture like X combatting Y, and it has Z really cool element.' And I'm like, okay, but I still don't know if it's good.]
Setting all that aside, there has been a lot of commentary online today, from people watching the show. From what I've seen, I'm one of the few inclined to watch more! Their comments have spoilers for the first episode only, so don't click if you haven't had time to watch yet. If you have, please do! Being meta is the best part about TV.
( Spoilers for Dollhouse, 1.1 )
