Comments on: Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse trailer

By: Buzz Parsec

Buzz Parsec — Sat, 17 May 2008 08:19:59 +0000

Actually, I remember waking up on the couch with some strange late night movie playing on the TV that turned out to be Yojimbo set on a distant planet. I vaguely recall one of the Caradines…

By: Ronn Blankenship

Ronn Blankenship — Sat, 17 May 2008 02:47:44 +0000

Ginger Yellow asked:

Seriously, what’s wrong with an outer space western?

Because not only is there no “up” or “down” in space, but no “east” or “west” either?

(Okay . . . I’m going now . . . )

By: Ginger Yellow

Ginger Yellow — Sat, 17 May 2008 00:14:06 +0000

“What I had a problem with was one of the core premises of the show — namely, that it’s a freakin’ outer space western!”

Quite a few people have this reaction, and I never understand it. Seriously, what’s wrong with an outer space western? They’re on frontier worlds after a civil war, doing dirty jobs with an honour-among-thieves moral code and staying one step ahead of the law. Seems perfectly reasonable to me. Fair enough if you just don’t like it, but people seem to object to the very idea, not the execution. Nobody makes the same complaint about Star Wars, which is basically a space western with a bit of Kurosawa thrown in (and let’s not forget, Yojimbo was remade as an out-and-out western).

By: Robert Woodhead

Robert Woodhead — Sat, 17 May 2008 00:07:36 +0000

Can’t find the trailer, alas, but it sounds very similiar in theme to Charlie Stross’ “Glasshouse” (http://www.amazon.com/Glasshouse-Charles-Stross/dp/0441015085/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1210982752&sr=8-1).

I highly recommend CS, he’s one of the best new authors of the last decade.

By: AJWM

AJWM — Fri, 16 May 2008 23:53:59 +0000

@ David D.G.

Calling Firefly a western is a dead giveaway that the person so calling it never saw more than two episodes - probably giving up on it after the first ep that FOX aired (out of sequence). What about “Out of Gas”? “Ariel”? “War Stories”? “Objects in Space”? “Trash”? “The Message”?

Hello?

By: Ian

Ian — Fri, 16 May 2008 22:14:41 +0000

Failure to inverse telecine FTL.

By: billsmithaz

billsmithaz — Fri, 16 May 2008 18:02:03 +0000

@ Geoff Lane:

I may be a pessimist but I can’t see the networks liking Dollhouse for long, “you mean it’s the same body, but a different personality? How will the audience follow that?”

Maybe you’ve got a point. Quantum Leap used a very similar plot device, and there’s certainly no fan base for that.