Two hours ago, I said this about Dollhouse and FlashForward:
Both shows will be canceled before January.
Then, SciFiWire posted the overnights for Dollhouse.
9-9:30 p.m.: 1.0, 1.0, 2.698 million
9:30-10 p.m.: 1.0, 1.0 2.427 million
I feel for Joss and the shows that he makes for people like me.
Saturday, September 26, 2009
Identity Television
After watching the series premiere of FlashForward and the season premiere of Dollhouse, I have been thinking about how very intelligent these two shows could be. Not that they are not brilliant for television, but...they could both be better.
Which may be a problem for the media...
Now, FlashForward has (at the center) an issues that is straight quantum physics, and if they introduce a character named Schrodinger, I will be very very happy. The act of observing changes the observed, and observing something six months into out future does change how we percieve both ourselves and our future. In the novel that FlashForward is based on, the future that is seen is the future that may come however it is mutable. I do not know if the conceit used in the novel will be used in the series (plus, blaming the LHC at Cern seems too much like a plot from a Dan Brown novel) but I am interested to see where they are going to go with this.
As to Dollhouse, the entire series is based on the idea that identity, much like our future, it mutable, therefore, we are whom we are until we are not. Ballard goes through as many changes to his core persona as any of the Actives do. With Echo becoming increasingly self aware and the various graft personas being remembered, where does Echo (the shell) end and the polyglot of grafts begin (the self)?
I do look forward to see how these programs are going to play out, with notions of self and identity being brought to the forefront, because maybe, just maybe, if these popular programs can get people thinking about what it means to be a person, an individual, and the nature of the shifting canvas that is the human psyche, we just may be able to have an intelligent conversation about metaphysics as a society...
Or, and I find this to be much more likely...
Both shows will be canceled before January.
Which may be a problem for the media...
Now, FlashForward has (at the center) an issues that is straight quantum physics, and if they introduce a character named Schrodinger, I will be very very happy. The act of observing changes the observed, and observing something six months into out future does change how we percieve both ourselves and our future. In the novel that FlashForward is based on, the future that is seen is the future that may come however it is mutable. I do not know if the conceit used in the novel will be used in the series (plus, blaming the LHC at Cern seems too much like a plot from a Dan Brown novel) but I am interested to see where they are going to go with this.
As to Dollhouse, the entire series is based on the idea that identity, much like our future, it mutable, therefore, we are whom we are until we are not. Ballard goes through as many changes to his core persona as any of the Actives do. With Echo becoming increasingly self aware and the various graft personas being remembered, where does Echo (the shell) end and the polyglot of grafts begin (the self)?
I do look forward to see how these programs are going to play out, with notions of self and identity being brought to the forefront, because maybe, just maybe, if these popular programs can get people thinking about what it means to be a person, an individual, and the nature of the shifting canvas that is the human psyche, we just may be able to have an intelligent conversation about metaphysics as a society...
Or, and I find this to be much more likely...
Both shows will be canceled before January.
Song for a Saturday Morning
Southwood Plantation Road
I've got you
You've got whatever's left of me to get
Our conversations are like minefields
No one's found a safe way through one yet
I spend a lot of money
I buy you white gold
We raise up a little roof
Against the cold
On Southwood Plantation Road
Where at night the stars blow like milk across the sky
Where the high wires drop
Where the fat crows fly
All night long you giggle and scream
Your brown eyes deeper than a dream
I am not going to lose you
We are going to stay married
In this house like a Louisiana graveyard
Where nothing stays buried
On Southwood Plantation Road
Where the dead will walk again
Put on their Sunday best
And go with unsuspecting Christian men
La la la la la
Friday, September 25, 2009
The iPhone now offers MMS
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I am excited that I can now send and receive MMS on my iPhone but I am concerned that it took this long to get this "feature" from AT&T.
Two Great Geeks That Geek Great Together
Ira interviews Joss Whedon onstage. Among the questions: What old episodes of Buffy do you go back and rewatch? How come in the Buffy comic book, Buffy's and Willow's boobs keep growing? What would've happened on Firefly if it woul...d've continued? (Okay Joss only gives a few morsels on that one.) Why do all the strong women at the center of your shows (Buffy, Echo, even River) have older dudes watching over them protecting them? What's so great about Battlestar Galactica that you've said "I love that show the way other people love 'Buffy.' I love it unreasonable. It feels wrong"? And ... most important of all ... Six reavers vs six vampires: who wins?
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