| Some guy lordsathien quoted wrote: |
| Most Joss Whedon productions are filled with fairly non-stop snappy dialogue. "Dollhouse" seems to be a departure in parts, but since this first ep was re-worked by the Fox executives, the bit that rubbed me the wrong way may have been their fault. |
Maybe, but I wouldn't count on it. If anything was their fault it was the two out-of-place action sequences that had nothing to do with the overall plot, i.e. the motorcycle chase and the kick-boxing scene.
As for the dialogue, it wasn't just the snappy one-liners that were missing. All of Whedon's trademark humor that could be found in his previous shows was almost entirely absent in the
Dollhouse pilot. The only character with somewhat Whedonesque dialogue was Topher, who seems kind of like a combination of Xander and Andrew.
I'm sure we will see more humor in later episodes though. The nature of the show and the range of stories you can tell with it almost make it certain that there will be plots that are more comical than others. The pilot was more on the serious side. In an episode that deals with a girl being kidnapped by a child-molester, too much humor would have been inappropriate and out of place.
In other news, the
Dollhouse pilot did mediocre ratings-wise, although
Variety calls it "a credible start".
AICN notes that it "improved mightily on its lead-in"
Terminator:SCC, but considering that the ratings will almost certainly drop with the second episode, because of some of the curious viewers, who just wanted to check out the pilot, leaving, that may not mean much. I'm hopeful, but I remain skeptical.
