Joss Whedon's Dollhouse Deathwatch: Day One

[james_davis_nicoll]

The Dollhouse series premiere airs tonight on Global at 9.00 et/pt.

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[tavella.livejournal.com]

You mean the guy who created an idiot plot just so Kitty could be "killed" tragically? Yeah, not really seeing the feminism in that.

I give Whedon props for generally creating more than one female character in his stories, thus allowing a range of characterizations -- he's a lot less crappy on that then he is on his skanky race issues. That doesn't mean he doesn't fuck up lots.

[schizmatic.livejournal.com]

You know, I've probably brought this up in the past here on James's LJ, but on race, I will always give Joss mad props for acknowledging on Angel that, you know, there are non-whites in Southern California.

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

It's better than Sunnydale, which doesn't seem to have any non-whites except when the vamps bus some in, but Angel's big demonstration of LA's human [1] diversity was what, the gang of Blackula killers in the first and second seasons? And their leader Gunn has to choose between being cannon-fodder for Angel or having contact with his buds?

1: Mind you, this could be another example of White People are Oblivious to Supernatural Threats. Maybe most of the blacks and hispanics who would have lived in LA took a look at the local demon population and decided that pretty much any town that didn't have an indigenous population of things that would eat them would be a better place to live.

[liviapenn.livejournal.com]

The magical Los Angeles with no Hispanic people in it gets "mad props?" Really?

[(Anonymous)]

If one wants something that reflects the current Southern California, one is going to have to watch Telemundo or Univision.