So I was thinking of starting to watch this....

[SweetOne]

A good friend of mine whom I hadn't seen in awhile asked me if I was watching this show and I told them no but that I had heard good things.

So when he told me about it, I got really interested. He said it was about a woman who is like programmed to do these different missions and each time the mission is done they wipe her memory. Only for some reason she ends up holding onto snippets of memories from each one and she is like trying to piece them together or something??

Is that an accurate description?? I thought it sounded pretty cool.

So My main three questions are- Has anyone seen it and is it as interesting as it sounds? and does anyone know where I can find the episodes online (does FOX have them?)

[Hopefulsuicide]

You can find the episodes on Hulu i believe :)

And yes, it's a pretty good description and YES it's definately worth watching. There has been some initial criticism, which i entirely put down to the hyping up of Joss Whedon and the phenomenally huge and ludicrously illogical expectations that many people had.

Of course the show was not going to begin with as much of a punch as your favourite episode of Buffy. All fantasy television shows need time to establish characters, background, empathy, mystery and intrigue, and a big bad. IMO Joss is doing a fantastic job.

I care about all of the characters already. We don't yet 'know' them, and i think it will be a long time before we get to 'know' Echo/Caroline fully because she is sort of an anti-character. But the theories are flying, the imagination cogs whirring and the show, after only 3 episodes is exciting me like crazy.

Hope you do watch, and hope you Enjoy.

Will possibly be hearing more from you in the Dollhouse section from now on :D

[SweetOne]

Thanks for responding!

Yeah I think I will check it out. I never really watched Buffy. Like maybe the first season and sporadically the second season but then I just stopped. So I have no expectations there. I have heard before that this writer Joss Whedon is like idolized or whatever, but that doesn't mean much to me because I'm not all that familiar with his stuff.

It sounds like that might work for me rather than against me though. I have had it happen before where I have blown up and hyped a up a movie before and then when I watched it, it just kinda sucked. But I have no expectations going into this so it just might be better that way!

It really does sound interesting.


Of course the show was not going to begin with as much of a punch as your favourite episode of Buffy. All fantasy television shows need time to establish characters, background, empathy, mystery and intrigue, and a big bad.

I totally know what you mean here though. It reminds me of Veronica Mars. Everyone's different and when I watched it for the first time (I started it from scratch on DVD right around the time when the third and final season was airing) and I was hooked on there very first episode. BUT I also got to watch them one after another after another. When I checked the message boards on here, it seemed like it took viewers about 8-10 episodes to REALLY start getting into the characters. While that surprised me I could still understand. The characters are written brilliantly but as you said, it takes time to establish them in the viewers minds and hearts. I had a crash course and fell in deep really fast but those that had to watch it on a week to week basis, well it took a little longer.

I don't know if that exactly related to what you said, but I just wanted to point out that people should not expect to find and intense close connection to a show right off the bat, but given a little bit of time to allow the characters to be revealed and fleshed out, a TV show can become something TERRIFIC.

[Hopefulsuicide]

Absolutely.

Every show has been a different experience to me.

Take a show like Supernatural. When it first aired on ITV I watched the pilot and was totally not hooked. I think I watched one more episode and then just sort of gave up. Due to massivly good responses on here, i started watching the series from the beginning about 2 months ago. And it still took me a good 13 episodes to really care.

But now? I am absolutely in love with Dean Winchester. And i am so glad that i did force myself through the first half of the first series, which IMO was very dull.

Some shows i.e. Lost start with a bang. Some shows i.e. Smallville start with the backstory. A show like Dollhouse starts by placing you right in the middle of the normalcy of the world your being introduced to. It sets up the basis with which all story lines are going to stem from.

So i don't respect anyone who says it wasn't exciting enough, or it wasn't funny enough or it didn't have enough bang. It wasn't supposed to. :lol: