Haven't seen Chuck. One of my roommates has gotten into Burn Notice recently, and I'm finding that it's a great show to catch, if not follow. There's just so much great tradecraft in it... how to bulletproof a vehicle on the cheap, how to saw through a wall with a pair of scissors, how to defuse a hostage situation in an almost safe, non-Rambo-ish fashion. The show's got no more character development than the A-Team, or maybe more appropriately the Travis McGee novels (it's set in Miami after all) but sometimes that's a good thing.
Dollhouse was odd. I posted a more in-depth criticism a few days back, but essentially the characters on the "good-guy" side range from conflicted to full-on finger-lacing monologue-giving evil, and not the kind of evil which begs twisted admiration (e.g. Hannibal Lecter), either. The concept of personality architecture is interesting, but violates my fundamental moral sense on such a deep level it's not even funny. I don't see how Whedon's going to make us like the characters, given what they do on a daily basis. Which is very different from, for example, the Firefly crew, who were all pretty deeply flawed folks, but were almost impossible not to like.
Unless he makes the Dollhouse out-and-out villains within the next few episodes, which could work.
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Date: 2009-02-19 04:46 pm (UTC)Dollhouse was odd. I posted a more in-depth criticism a few days back, but essentially the characters on the "good-guy" side range from conflicted to full-on finger-lacing monologue-giving evil, and not the kind of evil which begs twisted admiration (e.g. Hannibal Lecter), either. The concept of personality architecture is interesting, but violates my fundamental moral sense on such a deep level it's not even funny. I don't see how Whedon's going to make us like the characters, given what they do on a daily basis. Which is very different from, for example, the Firefly crew, who were all pretty deeply flawed folks, but were almost impossible not to like.
Unless he makes the Dollhouse out-and-out villains within the next few episodes, which could work.