BUGGER!

Watching yesterday's episode of Dollhouse, "Belonging", I kept thinking:

- the actors are great but Enver is fabulous. How cute Victor is!!!!
- where's Tahmoh? Do handlers get a day off when their dolls don't have any engagement?
- if Joss Whedon is not God, he is really an unconscious Catholic! Well, sort of.

Because now we know that, no matter how paradise-like the place may look and how painful the engagement may turn, the dollhouse is neither Heaven nor Hell, it's just a Purgatory. Yes, after the palimpsest on Chaucer's tales, now the show plays on Dante's territory. Once and again, it's all about the journey.

( Belonging )

First off, may I have a marking doll, please?

I should be marking instead of posting about Dollhouse but I have to write down some thoughts before I forget them. I usually use my Paul Ballard icon for such posts but my Medieval Demons icon seems to fit in today, since Tim Minear's script could be read as a palimpsest from The Canterbury Tales.

( La Belle Chose )

I will write about "La Belle Chose" later but I saw it and I needed to squee right now!

Victor-Chaucer-Paul is the best trio in my book. I've been saying for a year that Enver Gjokaj is an acting wonder and he was again fantastic! That man is a gem. What an amazing versatile actor! Tahmoh was also VERY good in the episode (he got the chance to show his skills at last), and extremely handsome. And tall!

Enver and Tahmoh are a great team, they both owned the episode.

After that one, I'm still torn between being a Paul/Adelle 'shipper or a Paul/Victor supporter. Perhaps Paul/Victor/Adelle is actually the right combination(and Adelle can watch, just like in my favourite scene from "La Belle Chose"!).

Joss, what you do to me!

I've just watched "Instinct", an episode I was ready not to like, given that it was Echo-centric, but actually I enjoyed it.

Looks like that after all those years of letting us pondering the soul issue, Joss has finally given an answer: the soul lies in the milk !!!!

( Read more... )

Season 2 of Dollhouse has begun at last! "Vows" didn't blow me away but, as premieres go, it was a rather good episode. Much food for thoughts.

( Vows )

What am I going to watch now that Dollhouse and Lost are over? There's still Ashes to ashes but brit series are very short and we're nearing towards the end...

( My thoughts on Dollhouse's Omega )

With Joss, there's always the obvious, the less obvious and the least obvious. Dollhouse deserves a second season!

( Dollhouse episode 1x11 )

I'm going to watch Lost but first, I need to write down a few thoughts...Spoilers under the lj-cuts of course!

( About Dollhouse episode 10 )

( A quickie on Heroes finale )


Last but not least, I finally saw the second episode of Ashes to ashes.

( Shall we always trust the Gene Genie? )

I found, via whedonesque ,  this interview of the actor playing Victor on Dollhouse.

I guess that the show has grown on me for I missed it last week and I look forward to watching the new episode.

There was no Lost this week and I've been feeling tv show deprived even though I watched of course the first episode of the second season of Ashes to ashes.

( Spoilerish thoughts )

for Dollhouse and Terminator:The Sarah Connor Chronicles for it's likely that these tv shows won't get another season. Joss himself is quite pessimistic about a possible season 2 for Dollhouse and TSCC's final episode looked like a series finale.

It saddens me for I've come to like TSCC despite some stuff that bothers me, and the last two episodes of Dollhouse were good, not perfect but clever the way Joss can make a tv show clever, you know. *sigh*

( The Spy in the House of Love )
( Born to run )

 

I haven't posted for a while but no I haven't vanished, I just took a  step away for RL was busy and I wasn't in the mood for LJ. Yeah it's that feeling of being disconnected again. But sister_luck  managed to lure me back online. ;- )

I watched my tv shows though.

( Lost )

I have also seen the two last episodes of Dollhouse and the Terminator:The Sarah Connor Chronicles ones.

( Dollhouse )( T: SCC )Now I'm going to bed...

I shall write a review of BSG finale later or tomorrow (I may need to watch it a second time and it's a 2 hour thing) but for now let's talk about Terminator: The Sarah Connor's Chronicles and Dollhouse.

( TtSCC did manage to surprise me )

And now let's speculate about Joss' new baby.

( Dollhouse didn't surprise me at all but I enjoyed it nonetheless )

No this isn't a post about Buffy but the answers to the Music Quiz I did yesterday since 5 songs have remained unguessed. Those 5 were difficult though. Answers are linked to youtube videos and I explain in bold the "Buffy" or "Dollhouse" connections.


1. "Moonlight Mile" by The Rolling Stones (from Sticky Fingers). One of their best songs ! 
2. "Sao Paulo Rain" by Tom McRae( from his debut album). A song Xander listens to after the wedding fiasco in season 6. The youtube vid is a Buffy/Angel one but I shall bear some Bangel just for Tom...;- )
3. The dance of the puppets /The rusted chains of prison moons..."In the Court of the Crimson King" by King Crimson
5. "Always on My Mind" by Elvis Presley (of course!) . Ah Elvis' voice.....
6. "Life On Mars?" by David Bowie. Tom did a cover but I prefer David's version.  
7. "The Crystal Ship" by The Doors
8. "Pavlov's Bells" by Aimee Mann. She sang it in "Sleeper" during BTVS season 7.
9. "I Wanna Be Sedated" by The Ramones. Spike hums it in "Crush", season 5.
10. "All I Know" by Art Garfunkel. It's a lovely song and if you watch Nip/Tuck you must know the track for it was used in the wonderful ending scene of the season 2 finale . One of the greatest tv twists ever.
11. "Wuthering Heights" by Kate Bush . When I was a young teen I prefered "Babooshka" though and wanted her outfit from the video! I loved that song and played it all the time driving my family nuts. Ah the 80's !!!!
12. This is what you get/ this is what you get. It's "Karma Police" by Radiohead!
13. "Fantasy" by Earth, Wind & Fire
14. "Mad About You" by Sting
15. Waking to these sounds again / I wonder how I'll sleep "Over and Over" by Morcheeba (Big Calm)
16. Holding hands/Skipping like a stone/On our way/To see what we have done "Burn the Witch" by Queens of the Stone Age (Lullaby to Paralyze).
17. I'm coming up only to hold you under/ I'm coming up only to show you wrong "The Funeral" by Band of Horses.
18. "Children of the Revolution" by T-Rex(Marc Bolan singing). 
19. "Behind Blue Eyes" by The Who. Giles sings it at the Bronze in BTVS season 4, and  Willow swoons over his voice.
20. "I Go To Sleep" by Sia (written by the singer of The Kinks, but it's The Pretenders' cover is the most famous). Sia's cover can be heard at the end of the 4th episode of Dollhouse.

I know Sia since she keeps borrowing the marvellous Oli Krauss to play with her. Oli is the cello genius that has been touring with Tom McRae for years.

By the way Tom is 40 today. Happy Birthday dear Tom !!!!

LJ is very quiet in my corner these days but I'm totally stealing stormwreath</lj>'s idea of music meme !

Can you guess 20 of songs(in English) that I often play on my computer, from the first two lines (or the first two lines of the chorus if the title appears int he first two lines of the song)? Gimme the title, the artist and if possible, the album.

Turns out that four of them are Buffy-related and one is Dollhouse-related!

1. When the wind blows and the rain feels cold /With a head full of snow
2. There's always a party on a funeral row, where the cross flashes red to the street.
3. The dance of the puppets /The rusted chains of prison moons
5. Maybe I didn't love you quite as good as I should have, maybe I didn't hold you quite as often as I could have,
6. It's a god-awful small affair/to the girl with a mousy hair
7. Before you slip into unconsciousness/I'd like to have another kiss
8. Oh, Mario,/Sit here by the window;
9. Twenty-twenty-twenty four hours to go/just put me in a wheelchair, get me on a plane
10. I bruise you, you bruise me/we both bruise too easily
11. Out on the wiley, windy moors/Wed roll and fall in green.
12. this is what you get/ this is what you get,
13. Every man has a place, in his heart theres a space/And the world cant erase his fantasies
14. A stoness throw from Jerusalem/ I walked a lonely mile in the moonlight
15. Waking to these sounds again / I wonder how I'll sleep
16. Holding hands/Skipping like a stone/On our way/To see what we have done
17. I'm coming up only to hold you under/ I'm coming up only to show you wrong
18. Well you can bump and grind/ If it's good for your mind
19. No one knows what its like/To be the bad man
20. When I look up from my pillow/ I dream you are there with me


ETA - songs already guessed are in italics.

...où subsiste encore to echo. Où subsiste encore to écho.

So that was a huge defeat but England deserved that victory, they were obviously better and faster than us; our team was just the shadow of a rugby team, hopeless and broken. At least we scored one try. 

Not a good weekend for France, after Alain Bashung died yesterday. La nuit je mens is a song I love because of its lyrics and because Tom did a cover of it.




So speaking of echoes, here's a few thoughts about Dollhouse, I promised earlier.

( True Believers )

Just a few thoughts on episode 3 of Dollhouse before signing off to have a relaxing bath.

( Spoilers if you haven't seen it )

There has been discussions on various places, including chez st_salieri</lj>  and chez enigmaticblues</lj> , about Dollhouse and the matter of misogyny and feminism.

Giving my two cents, I came to the conclusion that I rather have a marxist take on the series...which might change later since I have only seen two episodes! Anyway it's fun to ponder Joss' work even this early.

( I know that Joss is not Ken Loach but still )

I'm caught up with my Friday's American tv shows, that are BSG , Battlestar Galactica and Terminator: The Sarah Connors Chronicles (yes that's a new addiction...I'm weak).

Let's start with BSG...

( Deadlock )

Didn't Ellen Tigh say that Saul had been frakking a doll ?

( The target )

Before signing off, here are some thoughts on Terminator: The Sarah Connors Chronicles

( Read more... )

When it comes to television, according to me, there's a holy trinity of god-writers: J. Whedon, R. Moore and S. Moffat. There are the tv Titans.

R. Moore may be less creative and eccentric than the two others, and Joss will always rule in the firmament, because of BTVS, if only for masterpieces like "Hush" and "Restless"–you won't find their equivalent anywhere on tv, but, even though R. Moore didn't provide brilliant episodes that reach such level, Battlestar Galactica is above any other shows these days quality-wise, and makes my day every week.

Thanks to mythical_bird  on battlestar_blog  I just read the cut-scene Ron Moore had written for "No Exit "and it thrilled me. The scene would probably have not worked on screen–too much exposition of meta-stuff there, too talkative, and as Giles would say too much of "a subtext turning into text"– but I like the fact that this was on the writer's mind, and how he uses the mythological basis of Western civilization (both Greek and Biblical) and therefore its literary foundations to make up this own show about humanity and family.

The BSG mantra "it happened and will happen again" thus not only refers to the main arc and various storylines in BSG but also to the writing of the show itself that keeps echoing ancient literary works. Meta-fiction indeed!

Also, about Dollhouse, I forgot to say yesterday that I enjoyed the "you can't fight a ghost" line. The ghost in the machine is obviously the theme of the show, both for Echo's journey and for Paul Ballard.