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[emmuzka]

Updated myself on Fringe. Some of the episodes are so good! Too bad that it has a minimal fan fiction following, since this series could provide for almost an X-files level fandom. Great characters! Hinted secret pasts! Angst! Monster of the week! Ha, I almost watched through the whole season trying to figure out why the main character's FBI partner Charlie was so familiar, and only after he took his shirt off I realized that it was Alvarez from HBO's OZ. I recognized him from the actor's tattoo :D

Tried to watch Dollhouse, but it's just not that good. It's actually pretty boring. How do they expect the audience to care about a character who is a different character in ever episode, and if not that, a blank slate? she has no history, no character development, nothing that would make me want to see what happens next.

The growing amount of sunlight is screwing me over. I have woken up before six almost for a week now. Time to invest in blackout curtains, I guess. That's what you get living in North.

Took a five-year-old to shopping in craft supply stores with me. Went nuts and spent so much money that now I'll have to do the buy-nothing -experience for next week to redeem my moral hangover.

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[wax-jism.livejournal.com]

Topher is a really disturbing character. He's dressed and written as the typical Joss-stand-in geek chic dude, but has shown very few signs of a conscience or moral compass. This show's Warren (who was also a really disturbing character even before he became a Big Bad--just think about how we were first introduced to him via the sexbot he made for himself. Topher has pretty similar consent issues, although not as personally involved yet [I guess mostly because he already has the ultimate control over the dolls [in forming their imprints and imprinting them] that he hasn't a need to crave personal sexual gratification to satisfy whatever his dysfunction is]).

The way Joss has of showing total sociopath characters that superficially look like what TV stereotype says is cute & harmless (the Seth Cohen, Weezer-listening, sloppy jeans-wearing, floppy-haired, witty-dorky, adorably-awkward type) is pretty effective, really. It's like a vampire puppy.

Except a vampire puppy would still be much less disturbing. Zombie puppy?

[emmuzka.livejournal.com]

Okay, now that I watched the series up to the latest episode, the series is *way* better. I don't care much of Echo, or her original identity, the university student too-gooder, though. Maybe that's why I didn't care the first half of the season, since they had to focus on the main character and bring the other dolls and house personnel in the series in time.