Alright! I’ve never devoted a whole entry to one subject, but why not? Here goes.

Dollhouse. Yup. Love it. It’s a TV show, in case you wondered. Friday night. Fox. Apparently only 4.1 million people are watching it. Hellooooo! There will be plenty of spoilers in this review, by the way, for people who haven’t seen it yet. So be warned!

Where to begin? Characters. Yikes. I just got myself a spoiler by looking up Miracle Laurie on IMDB. So, don’t do that. Okay, let’s start with her. I love her! She’s so cute! Okay, I’m not exactly objective. I love this show. But she’s so sweet. She’s the Willow/Fred. Okay, there I had to do it. Compare these characters to other Whedon show characters. But I love the leftover lasagna that was brand new. So funny. I don’t want to say too much about her now since I see where this is going. Darn you, IMDB!

I’m also wondering why Boyd Langton is written as “Boyd Langton/…” on IMDB just like all the actives….. ?? Typo? Moses! But then again Echo and Sierra are not written that way, so…. I’ll ignore it. Okay. Boyd. He’s awesome too. Let’s just assume from now on that I think every character is awesome, because it’s pretty much true. I like how he’s the good guy. Even though he works for a pretty evil organization. Claire Saunders too. They seem to be the “good” ones. Non-evil. Whathaveyou. I love the sweet relationship between Boyd and Echo. Nice! I love that he got nervous before she sang. I love that he demanded they rescue the kidnapped girl in episode 1. He’s a good guy. Stupid enough to pull an arrow out of himself, but still.

Claire Saunders. So different from anyone I’ve seen Amy Acker play. She’s goood. I mean as an actress. And the character is morally good. So far. Unless she’s the one trying to kill Echo or somesuch. You never know! But I don’t think so. I like her. She’s got secrets. She’s the one who knows everything and is bothered by everything. It’s nice. I mean, someone has to have a conscience!

“Victor/…” I can’t remember his imprint’s name. I love the criminal guy he plays. So funny. That’s all I’ve got for this one so far.

Evil security guy in a very nice suit. Have not caught his name. IMDB says Laurence. I like his… asshole-ishness. There’s really no other word for it. He’s such a jerk. But apparently in an entertaining way, cuz I like his character too. So mean. It’s nice and refreshing, I just don’t know why I feel this way. He’s the Jayne of the group! Okay, I’ll stop doing that now.

Adelle DeWitt. DUDE. She’s great! I absolutely love the little smile she puts at the end of everything she says. As if to say, “Let’s not have any trouble now, okay?” With the little head tilt. She’s controlling in a gentle polished way. I love that. She hardly ever gets ruffled. Just quietly in charge. Nice! She reminds me a bit of people I know in real life. I should probably be afraid.

Paul Ballard. He’s the Mulder. (Okay, Mulder’s not a Whedon character, but whatever!) Why does he have no partner? Okay, I’ve seen too much X-Files. I like this character a lot. Funny, badass, etc etc. Totally being played, but - okay, I guess now he knows he’s being played. Just not by who. (Whom? Lol.) Anyway, very clever, very rulebreakery. It’s a word. I made it up. It’s a made up word. By me. Hi.

Topher! Let’s all talk about Topher. Possibly my favorite character. He’s evil, but cuddly. Laid back. Genius. Amoral. You know the type. (Or hopefully you don’t personally know the type or I will feel sorry for you, but I digress…) I love how he teases Boyd. And now how he teases Dr. Saunders. “Scowly babies”. And how he makes fun of Laurence. And…. “Seriously? Gun?” Oh, my favorite laugh out loud moment, when Echo says, “Something fell on me,” and Topher says, “I bet it was something great!” Lol. Damn! And somehow he reminds me of Lorne on Angel. I must have my wires screwed up….

Echo/Caroline/Etc. Love her, of course. I love the kind of wobbly way the actives walk when they are all blanked out and childlike again. It’s so cute. I so want to be an active. So I can float around the Dollhouse, get massages, go swimming, sleep in a built-in coffin-like bed… Wait. Anyway, this character is the whole point, so I will try to focus. I’m sleep deprived. I loved the character of Miss Penn. I hadn’t seen Eliza play anyone like that before. And apparently Eliza can sing too. I guess Faith was in prison or something during “Once More With Feeling.” Darn! Anyway, I love how Echo has a personality that’s all her own. Making friends with Sierra and hiding it. Realizing she has to hide it. That was frickin’ awesome. Eeeee! Very unexpected. Let’s jump over into what I think of the whole show. ‘Jump’…
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‘Land’. Okay! I hate it. Kidding. I love it because everything is unexpected. From the ads last week I thought this week’s episode would be like an episode of Las Vegas. I braced myself. What am I, stupid? Dur. Obviously, it was going to be unexpected and great. But will the world see that? Will the world agree? I don’t know. But I am going to buy every season on DVD. Whether it’s one or five or… eleven. (Shite! Could that happen?!) The dollhouse reminds me of Wolfram & Hart from season five of Angel. I love that. Topher’s work room/office reminds me of Firefly in some way. Now I’m comparing things again. I would hate to be a professional TV critic and praise this show and have people ignore me and have to watch this wonderful thing crash and burn. So I hope it even squeaks by enough to keep going so there can be many seasons. There’s a kind of stress I don’t envy. Working on that show and wondering all the time how it is doing.

I feel like I still haven’t reviewed the show. I’ve just babbled for many paragraphs. Okay, Dollhouse: unexpected plot twists and turns, deep and meaningful this and that, very funny moments, awesome complicated characters, smart and thoughtful stories. Yep. It’s doomed. I mean, no, it’s not! Think positively! Sheesh!

Later.

We got a fax at work officially addressed “to william unreadable”. They couldn’t read the doctor’s name, lol. That cracked me up. It’s funnier than some of the misspellings we get. But anyway.

Dollhouse starts tomorrow. I’m so excited. I’ve been waiting a long time for this. I even wrote and published a novel inspired by the idea of Dollhouse. That novel would be Fugue, if you were wondering. I just wrapped up the posting of it today on Booksie. I actually didn’t time it that way on purpose, though. Weird! I don’t have any TV channels anymore, so a friend is recording the show for me. And there’s always Hulu.

I’ve been too busy to think straight lately and I don’t know why. It’s not like I’ve been doing anything. Just surviving winter. A really mild winter for the last month or so, but still. I guess I’ve been reading online. Researching the heck out of this and that. I’m starting up a new blog on this site, where I will serialize my own stories. I put my book on Booksie to get traffic, but it turns out I had to bring my own traffic with me. So, not such a great deal. I’ll just serialize my books here from now on. Not in this blog, but the other one. You know what I mean!

I took 2 days off from work again. On the agenda for the weekend: taxes (done), cleaning out my fridge, and uploading Wordpress to the new blog for novels. Hmmmm. And I just decided out of the blue to be gluten free. I’ve been buying up bland gluten free food like crazy. Weird. I feel much MUCH healthier, though. It’s bizarre. Had no idea that stuff was bad for me. I was just going on a hunch. Good hunch.

Wow, I am so not full of news. I have an ant problem in my kitchen. I gave them cornmeal to chew on. I heard it kills them. It seemed to thin them out, but after a few days they won’t touch it and want a fresh batch of it. Picky little creeps. I went to the store and bought ant traps. They swarmed around one of them like it was the best thing ever. Never seen that happen before. It must have tasty poison in it. Yeeks. I got tired of doing my put a cracker on the floor, wait ’til they swarm, then spray it with window cleaner thing. The air started to be all toxic with window cleaner! And if it kills ants, that can’t be too good for me, eh?

I just watched Ocean’s Eleven. Almost felt like a documentary. Kind of slow. Which is weird, I was expecting funny! Not a bad movie, though. I s’pose. I watched The Big Bang Theory on DVD too. Awesome. Made me laugh so hard I couldn’t breathe at one point. Love that. Reminded me of Frasier, but younger and less ritzy. Love it! That’s another one I think I must own. Darnit. Shelf space issues. Where’s the Kindle for DVDs???!!!

I would looooove to have the Kindle 2. Hell, I would love to have the Kindle 1. Not that they call it that, but you understand. Pfft. Nice! Books! And I don’t even read. Maybe I would. Future me reads a lot. Future me has more time. And a better sense of humor. Yup. I am so humorless right now. Oh YEAH. Tired of work work work. What else is new?

I ordered tapioca bread today. It does not sound tasty. Eh, what can you do? It was so weird when I stopped eating gluten and realized, “Oh, my head isn’t supposed to feel like that. Weird.” Dizzy and groggy and weird. Not clear. Now it’s all clear. Interesting. Creepy! Go me and my experimentation! I ordered soy nuts too. Never had those. Got very tired of peanuts this week. I need protein. Beans get boring too. I’m gonna have to learn tofu now. Bah! I liked it better when someone else made fake meat dishes and I could buy them ready made and frozen. Voila! This puts the kibosh on that. Rrrmph!

I am sitting in my jammies, as I have been all day. So weird when you never put on regular clothes. Just go from one set of pajamas to another. Yes, I change pj’s somewhere in the middle of the day. Okay, at the end of the day. That would be now! It’s time to get in the shower actually. And floss my teeth! (Not IN the shower, just floss them at some point….) Then back to watching The Big Bang Theory. Yahoooo! And tomorrow avoid Dollhouse spoilers like crazy, and then Saturday watch Dollhouse! Yahooooo! I’ve never watched a Joss Whedon show while it was on the air. It’s gonna be so weird not to be able to watch the next episode immediately. Well it is! I’m all spoiled by DVD.

I wonder what the weather’s like today. All I know is there’s no snow. I glanced out briefly earlier. MUCH earlier. There could be snow now! I’ll check…. Nope, still no snow. Phew! My lips are chapped or something. Too many corn chips. Yep. You know Pringles and Doritos have gluten????!!!! Noooo! I should eat healthy anyway. Geez. I would like some orange juice. That was random, but yuuummm. I didn’t buy any. Argh. I had to pay taxes. No federal refund. Got a state refund, though, which means I’m really only out $26. Not bad. I’ve had worse years. It’d be nicer if I made so much money on my websites that I had to make estimated tax payments. Yay! That could be my weird goal this year. Yes. Indeed. To have to pay more taxes. ??!!

That Obama sure has a lot of work ahead of him. Economy. Why do people want to be president? I think he has a good chance of fixing things, though. Excellent. It’s so weird, for 8 years I’ve ignored the headlines of what Bush was up to, but now I’m actually interested. In politics for God’s sake! Weird! But it doesn’t seem like politics now. Heh, that made sense in my head.

It’s been 2 months or so since I blogged last. Where does the time go? You wouldn’t have liked January me, though. Count your blessings. Actually January me was pretty much like this. Me now. Whatever! I seemed grouchier, though. Too grouchy to blog anyway. Whatever! The point is enjoy your Dollhouse viewing! See there, I assumed you’ll be watching it. Cuz why not? It’s bound to be good. Okay, I’ll go now. Can’t even tear myself away. Well, I’m having a boring day….. The Big Bang Theory aside….

Later.~