Dollhouse Ratings Drop!

Dollhouse Ratings Drop
Oh no!! Dollhouse ratings are at an all time low!!

http://www.thrfeed.com/2009/10/cbs-sinks-dollhouse-punches-through-bottom.html

I can't say that Season 1 ever fully caught my interest. I didn't particularly care about what's his name investigating the existence of the place. They want us to believe that the concept of the Dollhouse is evil, while at the same time convincing us that the Dollhouse is really cool and the dolls are being used for relatively good things. They can't have it both ways. So in the end, I didn't care about that whole side story.

It's also hard to care for the main character when her mind and personality are getting wiped clean and changed every episode. I supposed the whole story line about the detective trying to find the place and save here was a way to show the audience that there was a need to save her, but as I already explained, they just failed at that.

And as a third point, I never really cared for the guy/scientist/genius/whatever his official title is. He just seemed too cartoon-ish to me. And he always reminds me of some other character that I saw somewhere else, but can never put my finger on it, rather than making me think of him as his own character. But of course that episode where he's doing his special "diagnostic" test was very touching, as it should have been, and I did love that part.

On the plus side, Echo is hot. And Sierra is hotter.

The other plus is that it's a Joss Whedon show. I love Buffy and Angel. There wasn't a single bad episode in the short lived Firefly. And Dr. Horrible's Sing-a-long Blog is great.

I wasn't completely enthralled by season one of Dollhouse, but season one of Buffy wasn't spectacular either. I'm hoping that Dollhouse is going to follow the same, and do something amazing this season. I did enjoy the first episode. At the moment, the doctor is the most interesting character to me, I can't wait to see what they do with her. (Plus I would love for them to remove the scar on her face. Amy Acker isn't that bad looking herself.)

But that article is right about one thing. Being put up against SyFy's Stargate Universe is pretty dangerous. I know I checked out that show over the second episode of Dollhouse. Both are on Hulu, so over the weeks, it doesn't really matter which I watch first, but last Friday, I definitely was going to chose the season premiere of a new show, over a show that I'm still waiting to blow my mind. And from the looks of SGU, they're doing everything right.

I hope Dollhouse doesn't get canceled before Joss is able to really show us the vision that he has for the show.