Geeky TV Post

I'll make this one quick. I'm only posting 'cause I'm waiting for my drugs to kick in so that I can go to sleep...

1) Dollhouse. I just wanted to make a comment about the penultimate episode, Briar Rose. I read a lot of comments by viewers about the Paul Ballard/Boyd fight in the Dollhouse. Some people were on Paul's side, others were on Boyd's. Am I the only one who wasn't on either of their sides?

These were two men fighting over what *they* thought was best for a grown woman. It doesn't matter what their intentions were (both had seemingly good reasons)--what matters is that no one even asked HER what she wanted.

Sure, you can argue that she didn't know what was best for her and she's essentially childlike...but, uh, I think we've heard that argument before--it was used for centuries to suppress women's rights.

I thought that was a really powerful statement about how even good intentioned men step right over the agency of women.

2) Lost. I won't post spoilers for tonight's episode...just, you know what was in the box at the end? The ZOMG moment? I totally called early in the season, as soon as the plane crashed. I said that that particular person wasn't really that particular person. Yay me!

What did surprise me, though, is that I was right--I guessed that because I dislike the character and would have written it that way, and the writers of the show very rarely do what I would do. (Well, what I would do is have regular scenes of Desmond running naked through the jungle and talking randomly in his sexy accent, but that's me.)