I haven't seen the new Dollhouse yet, but with your recommendation it's definitely going on my "watch when I get home from work" list for the day.
As for FlashForward... What they said, mostly. It's a very clever setup, honestly, and the first episode did some very cool things, I felt. It's well-structured and everything... But it's not yet compelling. Good enough to give them another few episodes to find themselves, but we'll see.
One thing I'm torn between loving and fearing is that the flashes only run six months into the future. This can make for an extremely compelling one or two season show, but this is major American network television and if they can get away with it then it won't be just one or two seasons. I sort of shudder to think what sorts of narrative sacrifices are going to have to be made in order to make the show open-ended...
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Date: Sep. 27th, 2009 05:30 pm (UTC)As for FlashForward... What they said, mostly. It's a very clever setup, honestly, and the first episode did some very cool things, I felt. It's well-structured and everything... But it's not yet compelling. Good enough to give them another few episodes to find themselves, but we'll see.
One thing I'm torn between loving and fearing is that the flashes only run six months into the future. This can make for an extremely compelling one or two season show, but this is major American network television and if they can get away with it then it won't be just one or two seasons. I sort of shudder to think what sorts of narrative sacrifices are going to have to be made in order to make the show open-ended...
A bit rambly,
Ana