So Dollhouse's Series Finale was last night (feel free to get mad at me for making this seem suspenseful).

I thought it was kinda "meh." The show wasn't bad, it just wasn't good. It had alot of good ideas that just didn't quite work. The show didn't work more than it did work over time, unfortunately.

I was catching myself being surprised by this twist, or that twist as the show progressed, but there's only so much of watching the same 10 people in various circumstances that I could watch. This week it's the "job of the week." Next week it's the "dolls go rogue." Next week its "kill this character." Next week it's "this person is bad." Next week it's "That person wasn't actually bad, but this other guy is bad." And in the end the show didn't go in an extremely meaningful direction.

Somehow they were saving the world from Rossum Corporation erasing all of the world's minds in some kind of desire for total control over humanity . And for some reason echo is special because her spinal fluid helps prevent people's minds from succumbing to being erased or some such, oh and she can switch between multiple people uploaded to her brain and be a super-soldier at the same time . Meh.

And the writers had to cram the Saving the world storyline in at the last few episodes because the show got cancelled. This show was weird.

Another JW show bites the dust.

The second season was so vastly superior to the first. It was going places, and I'll miss it.

I really liked it, but it seemed like the last couple of episodes were rushed - the rest of the show had a somewhat deliberate pace..and suddenly it was like whoa, wtf is all this stuff.

I hadn't heard of this show until this thread. I think I'll add it to my list of things to check out.

I was a big fan of Dollhouse and it certainly got better as time went on. I'm going to miss those characters quite a bit. I also loved how the last episode was filmed, similarly to how Firefly was produced, and the writing was dramatically improved, taking out "TV" drama talk.

I appreciated the very end between Echo and Ballard as well. Everyone's characters did what seemed "right." I wish the Allstate guy could have stuck around. I actually thought their reaction to his plan was infantile and unreasonable. Despite being psychotic, he was absolutely right, as per the results we see in the last episode.

Dennis Haysbert was never on Dollhouse.

Yeah, that wasn't the allstate guy.

I've been watching the show since the pilot, and while the first season was pretty rough, I enjoyed the second one quite a bit. Not exactly high in quality, but every once in a while you caught a glimpse of something that looked like real promise. It's too bad that the show didn't really pick up until after it'd been canceled.

Veger, I'm perplexed by your complaint about "watching the same 10 people in various circumstances." Relatively few shows have regular casts that consist of more than 10 characters.

I didn't explain that very well.

What I meant is...

1 episode everyone is trying to save echo.
another episode everyone is trying to stop Paul from figuring out the dollhouse
Another episode Paul joins the dollhouse
another episode everyone saves echo again
another episode echo is special for some unexplained reason
Another episode the head lady is demoted
another episode the head lady gets her job back but becomes evil
another episode the head lady wasn't actually evil
another episode the world is suddenly at stake
another episode the viktor/sierra relationship suddenly turns into viktor fighting a bunch of mind-controlled super-soldiers
another episode summer glau comes in and hate echo but also can help save the world or something.
another episode echo is still supposedly special but has super spinal fluid that can save the world.
another episode everyone is in the future living like hillbillies trying to save the world...


...it's hard to explain but I'm basically saying that a million things are happening to the same group of people and some of it seems to happen randomly. It's like the world only revolves around this small few and all worldwide drama only happens within the group. It's like the show didn't know what it wanted to be or something, i dunno. /rant

Ah, I see what you mean. I'm still basically of the opinion that the show's problem is that it didn't pull off its ideas well, not that its goals were necessarily bad, but what you're saying makes sense.

This occurred to me too, but I just figured they were trying to accelerate the plot so that they could have a "conclusion" by the end of the season.

I liked it a lot.

Maybe if he had made fun of democrats in the show fox wouldn't have canceled it.

I know that Boyd isn't the Allstate guy, it was a joke.