Geekscape lists Enver, Dichen & Dollhouse among the Best TV of 2009.
"One hour a week this good from a network is hard to find. And thanks to all you philistines, if I want to see seasons three through six, I’ll have to raid a DVD store in an alternate universe."
Contains some spoilers for other shows. Of Enver Gjokaj, one of article's contributors (Eric Diaz) had this to say:
"The best thing about Dollhouse is not Eliza Dushku or anyone else, it’s this guy, who plays the Active/Doll code-named Victor. This guy can quite literally play anything, which of course is what the show requires of those who play the “Dolls”. But week after week it is this guy who shines over everyone else. Of all things on Dollhouse I’ll miss, number one on that list will be Victor."
iwearthecheese | December 27, 12:05 CET
hopitopia | December 27, 13:50 CET
The truth is we do - we're just not usually in control of it.
brinderwalt | December 27, 15:19 CET
ManEnoughToAdmitIt | December 27, 16:00 CET
CaptainB | December 27, 16:07 CET
Watch the entire show through and then when there's about 45 minutes left of the show, just stop watching. Until that point it's among the best shows ever... And then they kinda ruin things...
Oh, and skip The Plan too... That's just a big waste of time.
Djungelurban | December 27, 16:17 CET
CaptainB | December 27, 16:52 CET
petranef | December 27, 16:54 CET
However, I agree that "The Plan" is a complete waste. Fortunately, it can simply be ignored without losing anything of BSG as a whole.
MissKittysMom | December 27, 17:32 CET
I liked the end of BSG. But The Plan was a boring clip show movie. The ending is a bit polarizing, but I don't think anyone regrets watching the show because of it.
And I love Enver and hope to see him in lots of stuff in the future.
theclynn | December 27, 18:55 CET
Yes, that's true. There are aspects of the ending that I really liked. Pretty much anything character related worked like gang busters... However, anything related to the mythos? Yeah, don't wanna go too far into spoiler country so I'm just gonna say that the ending mythos-wise felt like one big betrayal of everything the show stood for. I was seriously miffed by it when I saw it and I still am 9 months later...
And no, it didn't make me regret watching the show. The show up to that point was amazing. But knowing what I know, I can't actually go back and really enjoy the show anymore. And because of that, I actually do regret watching the finale. Atleast that last part. Could have done without that.
Djungelurban | December 28, 03:54 CET
For Dollhouse, the character I'll miss the most is probably Topher. I am glad that we're getting more Fran and Amy in Cabin In The Woods, the Whedonverse is so much better with them in it.
curlymynci | December 28, 07:31 CET
In fact, I'm thinking Dichen needs to be Psylocke/Revanche if Marvel includes the character in a future X-movie. Enver could play anything, so having him be some character that changes into other people without physically shifting and uses makeup and other disguises, maybe like the Chameleon before he got morphy powers, would be awesome.
And hey, if there's a Cross-Universal Netflix, I want to get the full Deluxe Compleat Whedonverse editions on HD-DVD (yes, HD-DVD) of Buffy & Angel (9 seasons each plus the 3 Buffy: The Animated Series seasons, the 4 Spike: Harbinger movies and the Digital Worlds edition of the Buffy AniComic), Firefly (6 seasons, three movies and all five seasons of the CGI animated series), Dollhouse (5 TV seasons plus the 72 DollWars webisodes, the 18 instalments of The Topher Brink Viral Chronicles and the Rossum Active Architecture Dollware game for the Wii), all 6 volumes of Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog (including the 13 volumes of commentaries), and some other sets like the 11 seasons of Farscape/Peacekeeper Wars/Farscape Universe, the 5 seasons of Doctor Who from the 90's with Paul McGann as the 8th Doctor, the Doctor Who: Time War specials, the 3 other Christopher Eccleston 9th Doctor series, and all of the Galaxy Quest series and movies including The Original Series, GQ: The Animated Series, GQ: The Next Generation, GQ: Thermian Space Nine, and "Protector". Also I'd like HD versions of selected shows from a universe where nobody wears clothes.
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...Or perhaps I didn't need to share that last bit.
Grotesk | December 28, 09:11 CET
Djungelurban | December 27, 16:17 CET
Once again, I have to disagree in the strongest possible terms. BSG is my favorite non-Whedon show ever, and the best part was the way it ended.
Even is it wasn't as high as it is on my favorite shows ever list, I'd still give it my personal "best series finale ever" award - the entire last three eps - which were a seamless piece -and especially the last half hour or so.
Apparently this is the really really polarizing part. Because as much as I loved all the character related parts - especially the brilliantly executed flash-backs - by far the most satisfying thing about the ending of BSG was the handling of the mythos.
This was a finale that dared to stick with the multi-layered, larger than life mythology that had informed it's core meaning, from the first time we heard the phrase "This has all happened before, and it will all happen again", and not cop out in the end.
BSG was literally a mythology, as much as a space adventure and an in-depth character study that worked on multiple levels. I'll be eternally grateful to Ron Moore for not losing sight of that.
Had it ended without addressing the core mythology that was the shows underpinning, the rock this stunning tale was built upon, I would have felt betrayed.
Shey | December 28, 10:57 CET
To wit: the idea of our Earth being colonized by humans and Cylons, and that we are repeating many of the same mistakes as them, isn't a terrible idea in principle. But, um, why settle here and give up technology, as if technology were ever the actual issue and not, er, man's inhumanity to man? Why would everyone--particularly those who lived and slowly died out on New Caprica where they still had some tech--agree to this? Wasn't a huge part of the show about protecting their society and forming communities, rather than, er, splintering off into a few nuclear families and ditching technology? Isn't FARMING, for heaven's sake, technology just as much as anything else, if you're going to go all retrograde on us? Maybe we were meant to question Lee Adama's decision, and in a show like, e.g., Dollhouse I almost never feel compelled to assume that the show is demanding that we make the same moral judgments as the characters, maybe excepting some of Echo's calls sometimes. But it seems that if everyone on the godsdamn planet agrees to give up everything then what can we do?
There are things I do like about the finale, incidentally, but it left a sour taste in my mouth. And to be honest, many of the fairwells seemed so drawn out, and the decisions of the core characters at the end so stupid to me, that I felt too angry at many/most of the characters to be moved.
...But yeah, the show is still worth watching.
[ edited by WilliamTheB on 2009-12-28 22:17 ]
WilliamTheB | December 28, 22:10 CET
janef | December 29, 04:02 CET
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