interesting points, although I don't see how Boyd fits in - he is still part of the system (partiarchy if you like) and actively supports it. He could act against he Dollhouse, but he doesn't.I feel most uncomfortable with his character as he is written to our elicit our sympathy, but really is he any better than Topher?
Oh, that's a huge point, in terms of what I don't like about the show. The above is how I think Whedon wants viewers to watch it, and identify with it.
1. I think you're giving JW too much benefit of the doubt, reaching too far.
I probably am. I love to speculate. I'm that person who sees 10 minutes of any thriller film, and tries to work out the eventual reveal, just from that little bit. (Not to spoil people, mind you.)
I really don't see Boyd as the hero (I think that might be how Joss Whedon wants viewers to see him), but your point about leaving behind a theoretically not exploitative career as a cop is something that I wasn't really paying as much attention to. Thanks for pointing that out.
Whedon says the first group he pitched the show to - after Dushku and Fox - was the board of Equality Now.
"I knew that would be the toughest room I would ever sit in," Whedon says. "What I basically told them was I was examining the idea of fantasy, and some of the stuff that would happen would be good, and some of the stuff that would happen would be kind of awful, and that the whole point was going to be to blur those lines, to take what we want from each other sexually, how much power we want to have over each other."
Oh, and hi, by the way. :) Came here through dollhouse_tv. My own Dollhouse posts are here.
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I probably am. I love to speculate. I'm that person who sees 10 minutes of any thriller film, and tries to work out the eventual reveal, just from that little bit. (Not to spoil people, mind you.)
I really don't see Boyd as the hero (I think that might be how Joss Whedon wants viewers to see him), but your point about leaving behind a theoretically not exploitative career as a cop is something that I wasn't really paying as much attention to. Thanks for pointing that out.
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Link to Whedon interview featured on NPR
Whedon says the first group he pitched the show to - after Dushku and Fox - was the board of Equality Now.
"I knew that would be the toughest room I would ever sit in," Whedon says. "What I basically told them was I was examining the idea of fantasy, and some of the stuff that would happen would be good, and some of the stuff that would happen would be kind of awful, and that the whole point was going to be to blur those lines, to take what we want from each other sexually, how much power we want to have over each other."
Oh, and hi, by the way. :) Came here through dollhouse_tv. My own Dollhouse posts are here.
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