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[frelling_tralk]

Give me a fandom and I'll give you, either in the comments or in a separate post, five unpopular opinions for that particular fandom.

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[stolenglimpse.livejournal.com]

How's about a little Dollhouse? :)

[frelling-tralk.livejournal.com]

1. It's one of my favourite Joss shows (after Buffy of course!), and it's disappointing how many people dismiss Dollhouse as not being his best work. I thought the show had some really fascinating things to say about identity through Echo refusing to believe that she's broken, and having to build her own personality from scractch, the show had so many interesting things to say if only people would dig a little deeper

2. I didn't really have a problem with Echo, I don't agree that Sierra or Whisky should have been the lead instead. Eliza wasn't always a strong enough actress to pull off certain scenes, but overall I liked what she did with the role. Okay maybe Whiskey could have been a stronger lead, but I was always pretty meh on the raves over the Sierra actress. She was decent enough, and I did love the 204 episode focusing on her, but I never thought that the character was that much of a standout as everyone else apparently did

3. It seemed like Paul/Mellie became the more popular couple over Paul and Echo, but I thought that Paul and Mellie were a total mess together and I could never root for them as a couple

4. I shipped Echo with Alpha a litle bit :blushes:, I wish that the show had more time to explore his character and what caused him to reform in the end and work with Echo

5. Okay I'm not sure that this is actually unpopular at all lol, but Echo >>>> Caroline, I was so glad that the show ultimately had Echo keep control of her body, after establishing that she had become self-aware and had just as much right to exit

[stolenglimpse.livejournal.com]

It's been a while so I need to rewatch. I had started doing that at the same time I did The Vampire Diaries but I continued TVD and Dollhouse has been waiting ever since.

One thing I'm not sure I like is Paul in Echo's mind in the end. That's kinda creepy to me.

And I like Sierra well enough, I think she's interesting but I don't love her more than I do Echo or Whiskey. I don't think I even have a favorite. If anything, Topher's a favorite *laughs*

I would have loved to see what caused Alpha to be so obsessed about Echo from the moment Caroline showed up (or was she already Echo when her saw her? I don't remember) and he had to go and mass murder and disfigure people (multiple personalities, I know but still).

I felt Paul/Mellie was a bit pushed but I didn't mind it much. I still have no clue how I feel about Paul/Echo... he was so obsessed about finding Caroline and now he got her (well, her body back but not her)... I don't know.

I wish that show had run longer. Much longer. I guess people weren't ready for a show like this one?

[frelling-tralk.livejournal.com]

Adelle and Topher were my favourite of the main cast, but I definitely didn't object to Echo being the main character as much as everyone else seemed too :shrugs: And yeah, I don't know if it was supposed to be romantic in the end that Paul was inside her head, but I thought it was a really sad ending for Echo to remain in the Dollhouse lost inside her own mind... And Paul's obsession with Caroline and watching the video of her was really creepy in the early episodes, but I did appreciate how the show deconstructed his white knight fantasies at the end of season 1.

It was sad that they couldn't have had a longer run, it felt like they had to rush through a lot of interesting plot points in season 2 :(

[stolenglimpse.livejournal.com]

I like that Echo was the main character. I find Eliza to be really good and I love her and she deserved to be the main actress after Tru Calling. That's another show I would have loved to see run longer. Where they were going would have made it really great (I read somewhere where they intended to bring the show to and I thought it rocked).

Tru Calling's demise and where they wanted to go reminds a lot of Dark Angel. I read something about that where they would have gone and I would have loved to see that happen, too.

I really need to rewatch season 2 Dollhouse. I'm currently on Heroes season 3 now. I still have so many shows to catch up to and also rewatch, it's not funny. One of them is Roswell.

[frelling-tralk.livejournal.com]

I never saw Tru Calling, but I remember that most viewers seemed dead-set against Eliza as the Dollhouse lead from the beginning, and kept insisting that she would never be able to pull off anything other than Faith.

I need to rewatch Dollhouse at some point, there's just more and more shows on my to-watch list these days that I can't keep up with!

[stolenglimpse.livejournal.com]

I don't know why they say she can't be anything else but Faith. She's a good actress. She deserves the spot she got. I find it sad she actually doesn't have more lead roles, be it tv shows or even movies.

Yep, the list grows and grows and grows. I still have American Horror Story, The Walking Dead and a few more that I need to check, too.