I watch Merlin but it's one of those shows that I refuse to analyse, cause it would totally kill my enjoyment of it. That said, I liked this week's episode, too. Some Merlin/Arthur moments reminded me of Blackadder/Baldrick, and I mean that as a compliment.
Dollhouse I thought was damn near perfect this time around. I adore the show but last week's ep was very, very boring. Misogyny doesn't bother me as long as it doesn't go unchallenged, and in Dollhouse it never does. Besides, the way Echo's been glitching it's a given that pretty much any assignment she gets will end in tears and/or a stay at the hospital for the client. She should come with safety instructions. And I thought it was so well done, the juxtaposition of the scenes with Echo and the professor and Ballard and serial-killer-Victor.
Loved the gender-swap thing, too. It was played for laughs, but in a smart way, and at least in my opinion what saved it from being a little too predictable (on the Victor side, I don't have a problem with how it went down on the Echo side), was Ballard's 'you got a problem?' when people were staring at Victor clinging to him in the club. There was even a bit of hair petting. If Ballard had been put off or embarrassed it would have been different. The homophobia doesn't go unchallenged, just like the misogyny doesn't, and now I think of it it's amusing how the latter is done by a bit of tenderness, and the former by means of letter opener to the creepy professor's throat.
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Date: 2009-10-11 12:19 pm (UTC)Dollhouse I thought was damn near perfect this time around. I adore the show but last week's ep was very, very boring. Misogyny doesn't bother me as long as it doesn't go unchallenged, and in Dollhouse it never does. Besides, the way Echo's been glitching it's a given that pretty much any assignment she gets will end in tears and/or a stay at the hospital for the client. She should come with safety instructions. And I thought it was so well done, the juxtaposition of the scenes with Echo and the professor and Ballard and serial-killer-Victor.
Loved the gender-swap thing, too. It was played for laughs, but in a smart way, and at least in my opinion what saved it from being a little too predictable (on the Victor side, I don't have a problem with how it went down on the Echo side), was Ballard's 'you got a problem?' when people were staring at Victor clinging to him in the club. There was even a bit of hair petting. If Ballard had been put off or embarrassed it would have been different. The homophobia doesn't go unchallenged, just like the misogyny doesn't, and now I think of it it's amusing how the latter is done by a bit of tenderness, and the former by means of letter opener to the creepy professor's throat.