Saturday, January 16, 2010

Did the farm thing with Michael. Not that farm thing. Get your mind out of my sex life.

We had some conversations that covered old ground, but uncovered some new facets. I'm still not sure of what we may yet unearth, but I hope it's beatiful rather than deadly. Perhaps it will be both, but that's something I'd like to avoid.

I just watched the next episode of Dollhouse (2x05 The Public Eye). It continued the awesomeness that was "Belonging". It wasn't quite as good, I don't think, but it was in the league of episodes that I consider worthwhile; a huge improvement over early Season 1 episodes, though I have to give them credit for referencing those early episodes so often (sometimes in quite subtle ways) so that they seem more important than they were. I mean...they are important, but I think they're still crap that could have been handled a lot better. The finale to the series is on next week; I have 7 episodes to watch before then, and I suspect (though I don't know for sure) that the 7th of those episodes will have a kind of ending for the present storyline of the series, while the finale will hopefully answer some of the grander questions of the show, especially relating to last season's DVD only epilogue episode "Epitaph One".

Actually, I've just read that the finale has been delayed a week and will not air until January 29, 2010. Not what I was hoping for, but I think I'll still continue watching the episodes and merely wait for the finale; perhaps watch "Epitaph One" again just before. I suspect "Epitaph Two: Return" as the finale is called, will be more of an epilogue to the series than a classic finale.

I might have to rewatch Dollhouse to get a better feel for how I'd rate the episodes now, but here's how I'd rate them based on my memory of them on a scale from 1 to 5 stars - 1 or 2 stars are what I consider crappy episodes - 3 stars are what feel like average but not terrible tv - 4 stars are better than average - and 5 stars are true gems:

1x01 Ghost *
1x02 The Target *
1x03 Stage Fright **
1x04 Gray Hour **
1x05 True Believer **
1x06 Man on the Street ****
1x07 Echoes **
1x08 Needs ****
1x09 Spy in the House of Love *****
1x10 Haunted ***
1x11 Briar Rose *****
1x12 Omega ****
1x13 Eptaph One *****
2x01 Vows ***
2x02 Instinct **
2x03 Belle Chose ***
2x04 Belonging *****
2x05 The Public Eye ****

Still to come...

2x06 The Left Hand
2x07 Meet Jane Doe
2x08 A Love Supreme
2x09 Stop-Loss
2x10 The Attic
2x11 Getting Closer
2x12 The Hollow Men
2x13 Epitaph Two: Return

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