i think it's a bit subtle, but the show has nonetheless established by this point that Buffy may not be a star pupil in the classroom, but she's very smart. naturally, she has a bit of that teenage-blonde-girl anti-intellectualism facade going on, but i enjoyed the fact that her scores validated that she was actually…

i'm excited for Noel gets to "doppelgangland."

i enjoy how in the overall spike story, we the audience become aware of spike's preternatural insightfulness almost as gradually as the other characters do.

"picaresque"? really?
i'm having trouble picturing Krasinski and Rudolph as roguish heroes. hmm… are you sure you didn't mean "picturesque"? picaresque i might watch, but picturesque i think i'd pass on.

"Why are your lips still moving, F?"

Death N Texas, i strongly disagree about victor's "naturalness". i guess it wasn't so much that i saw [victor as russian mob guy] and thought, "he's playing a doll" though, so much as i saw him and thought, "wow, he's a really bad actor."

last week's "haunted" marked the first time the full implications of the dollhouse technology sank in for me. also sold me on the series. this week was a darker extension of the same realization, and yes, very creepy.

yeah, so it just so happens both boyd and ballard are supermen… still, i felt the fight stretched credibility. yeah, it was intense and compelling to watch, but it's just so unbelievable that anybody, no matter how much adrenaline they have, could take that many punches and then instantly be quick on his feet again.

when you really need to worry about Amy Acker getting killed off is when all of a sudden one episode she's listed in the main cast in the credits. then she's toast.

blurg! how do you people like Enver Gjokaj? i agree that in this one episode, he did a good job embodying the dominic character, but i've hated him in every other episode on account of *he's not doing good acting*. i've thought that about all the actives (and ranted about it here often), that they look like they're…

"the erotic adventures of hercules"

yeah, i do have to give victor credit for his dominic impression, which was excellent. but that's absolutely the first time i've been impressed with him all season! i've found his other personalities rather juvenile in performance. same with echo.

another good line
"you said you loved me! your foot fingers are so strong!"

"time jump!"
it was so good, i'm watching it again right now.

yay!
they were totally crushing it in this episode! it makes me happy when shows i love justify my love for them.

"woman-times"

solid A episode
i thought this was splendidly written and paced. my only problem, yet again, is with the acting we get from the actives. i actually cringed when victor appeared on the screen, and was glad they didn't give him much to do. echo did a mostly pretty ok job on the acting this week, but it still…

Gleeth, all those points seem pretty easy to get over. especially the "one person is pivotal" concept, which is an extremely standard, one might say canonical, idea of fiction, and known to chaoticians everywhere as "the butterfly effect."

acting… you're doing it wrong.
i continue to be impressed with the writing, cinematography, and much of the dialogue, and really really unimpressed with the acting from the actives. the whole premise is that they're supposed to be imprinted with fully fleshed-out, wholly realistic embodiments of real personalities,…

i'm a neuroscience ph.d. student who works with human brain imaging. i have seen every episode of dollhouse so far, and have not been compelled to throw anything at the screen. maybe i missed something, but every bit of technobabble i've heard in the show is, albeit far-fetched, pretty well-stated.