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Aspiring screenwriter and seamstress, Sonia's dream is to write life-tweaking films while product-placing her own line of handbags. In 1999, she wrote, co-directed and co-starred in the short film Dr. Lovestrange, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bug, a satirical homage to Stanley Kubrick set amidst the panic of Y2K. She is working on her next short about the Mayan Calender that she hopes to finish before the end of the world. Ever the late bloomer, she finally started a blog chronicling her misadventures as one half of a long distance relationship (http://llddr.wordpress.com). She still struggles with which picture to kiss before bedtime: her boyfriend's or Bruce Campbell's. And, in the interest of time, she'd like to start thanking the Academy now. 5 Comments
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More mythology, whee! I love Whedon's world-building, because he clearly knows from the get-go how everything works, but only reveals bits and pieces to the audience until he can slam the final one home and make everything clear.
My highlights for the week: Double Taffy time, Topher comparing the actives to bison, Ballard being (I think justifiably) a bastard to Lubov, and Tony Amendola as the client (not a lot of him, but I love that guy).
The only thing that bothered me in hindsight was the heavy-handedness of the birth in the teaser as a metaphor for the imprinting/wiping processes. Joss is usually a little more subtle than that.
This show is killing me. It has enough entertaining moments and room to grow so that I tunie in, but also so many frak-ups.
A midwife? Why would someone hire a doll-midwife? Actually, I can think of several reasons, but none of them are hinted at in the show. Also, the mission parameters are secret? Really? Then how does Topher know what kind of perfect imprint to make, and how do the handlers know if something goes wrong? And doesn't that kind of invalidate the missions we've already seen where the clients gave explicit job descriptions? Also, Echo rescuing "John Cusack" was, to me, the wrong choice. I get that it's supposed to show Echo is a good person, but it just didn't work for me that she could get past armed and actually shooting guards with him. But that, really, is not a harsh criticism.
On the other hand, Boyd and Topher are cool, and the talk about art was fine (despite "Blue Skies"). Also: "I learned how to lap-dance"? Hee!
So despite my misgivings, I'm looking forward to seeing friday's blind, tough, spunky cult follower Echo.
Random asides:
- Ballard seems to be in a totally different show. I have no idea what the Dollhouse is planning with him and Victor, but I wonder whether in the future someone might mistake another Victor imprint for a fugitive and the whole thing this week was just a set-up for that.
- I want more Sierra!
- Taffy is not a name
- something else I forgot
Oh, yeah, here's my unrealistic wish: have some older or heavier dolls show up. I know it's a Fox show and it's TV, but some people might want a different model, you know
Slightly spoiled Whedonite says: "Stay tuned."
Amen to that!