Dollhouse, Week 5
In brief...
Thank goodness for Tim Minear. I missed you.
'Sneizure.' HA! I was not expecting that.
Topher must own futures in sweater vests.
More Amy Acker, plz.
Not that Eliza did a bad job (on the contrary, she was way impressive here), but the Topher/NotFred/Erection story was much more fun - Topher and NotFred have great comedic chemistry.
I'm kinda ready for Tahmoh to go, as he's become the Morena Baccarin of this show: pretty, wooden acting, boring cliched character introduced too early in the overall arc. I might actually be intrigued with Ballard if he were introduced this ep, just driving up at the end to ask the ATF agent questions. Wha?! The FBI is looking for Echo? How could this be?... and then we find out next week or later about the mysterious envelopes he's been receiving and that he's been meeting with the GangsterDoll and that he kickboxes...
Evil Reed Diamond. I did not expect him to do the (non)extraction himself. Evil, indeed, but kinda stupid. Why didn't pack a silencer and make sure she was dead? You travel all that way and don't seal the deal? I mean, the ATF already had video of the cult leader threatening her with a gun, so EvilReed wouldn't be implicated if she was found with a bullet in her brain.
Also: the blind savior wore heels to her baptism into an Amishy-attired cult? Oh show - you never fail to do the inexplicable to take me out of an emotional moment...
'Take the stairs.' Bish plz, you're so almost fired...maybe. (I think EvilReed has connections to the senior partners. It's the only explanation for why Adele hasn't gotten rid of him. If she had a spaceship and an airlock, he'd so be out of the picture by now...)
PATTON OSWALT!!!!!!!11 (Please tell me he's a Doll that kicks Ballard's ass...)
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ReplyDeleteAltough, re. the heels: Eliza is sooo tiny, they had to do something to make her taller, I suppose. All the other actors were half a foot taller than she is! He!
More Adelle, more backstory on Adelle, more Adelle outside of the Dollhouse.
Who's Patton Oswalt? Was he in this ep? I don't understand.
Tamoh: great in BG. Here, not so much, despite major serious eye candy. It would have been incredibly hot and brilliant had he just arrived in the scene, indeed.
Patton Oswalt was shown in the preview for the next ep, stumpy guy with the spiky hair being questioned by Ballard. He's a comedian and a huge huge lover of all things geek. Getting a guest spot on a Joss show must be a coup for him.
ReplyDeletere: Tahmoh - watching BSG online after this ep revealed just how little Joss is giving Tahmoh to work with. Tahmoh ain't the best, but he can rise up to the challenge of good material. Seeing him beg Adama for a ship find his daughter (kidnapped for, like, the third time...) was absolutely heartbreaking.
As for the heels - they could've put her on an apple box or something during her scenes in the chapel; we weren't seeing her feet so it wouldn't have mattered. Oh well. EvilReed not killing Echo is a much bigger WTF. I can overlook the shoes if Joss can explain that piece of bullshit plotting...