If I had a hammer...

[gwyn]

Jesus H. Christ on a biscuit.

First I watched the premiere of Dollhouse yesterday, and had to endure those fucking sleazebag fanboy porno fantasy promos with Eliza Dushku at every commercial break, not to mention the peppy little "let us show you some T&A so you'll watch our shows while you masturbate" sound bites with ED and Summer Glau. Then I saw something else featuring a Burger King ad (I would point you to it on YouTube except it doesn't seem to be up there yet) where two guys get some new mini-burgers that immediately draw hordes of cooing women thrusting their breasts in the guys' faces and climbing all over them to get to the cute widdle burgers, they're so adorable. With lots of close-up shots of the women's cleavage, natch, on special words like "look at them!"

We never really will make progress, will we? Dollhouse just worked every last feminist nerve I had -- particularly Echo's supposedly competent professional woman who comes into the first meeting wearing six-inch Christian Laboutins, a pencil skirt, and a shirt that couldn't be any tighter undone to her braline. I just... I don't. WHAT. Every time I hear Joss say he's a feminist, I'm going to flash on that, as well as the fact that the men are all dressed at the Dollhouse, and the women wear the skimpiest stuff they can get away with on network TV.

You know, it's really easy to hate men for this crap, since they're responsible for it, but I also really hate it when women sign up for this shit too. Shame on them.

Comments

[kadymae.livejournal.com]

I'm going to give this show a "maybe it had a rocky pilot" chance. Really not that impressed. But unless the next episode's a knockout and isn't slathered in ick like this first one?

I'm out of there.

[gwyn-r.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I figure I will give another ep or two, but I don't hold out a lot of hope. Not on the Fox suits interference front, because that's a different set of topics (those hideous promos, the fact that the fast-paced rewriting and reshooting left us with a completely retarded plot), but because I see this inability to understand in a lot of what Joss has done lately. I do believe he really believes all this stuff he says, but I don't think he sees the disconnect of what he does and says. And unfortunately, bbecause the cult of Joss is so strong, he's not hearing dissension. He can easily dismiss the wank as wank, and not learn anything from the people who aren't quite as... uh, impassioned, let us say, but are still seeing a lack of understanding in his work. When people are protected from hearing "no" or what have you, you can never make progress with them. I expect a lot more from him.