Should i watch the unaired pilot of dollhouse

In fact, both the actual pilot 1. You always see what was on it before. Every week, Echo and company are given new personalities and new adventures, which will satisfy those who tune in casually, while leaving bits and pieces behind to serve an overarching plot. Introduce the premise and show it in action. Talk about why the premise is problematic as fuck.

Gotta give the customer a sample, right? The cold open gives broad strokes of how the Dolls work, but the main plot revolves around a kidnapped girl. A twist to keep the audience coming back. A pilot needs to be functional, but as mentioned in the big black block above preferably also involves fun and adrenaline. You gotta give the people what they want, and what they want is Sex! Now we know what the actual pilot does:.

Introduce the Premise. And show it in action. So we have Echo is implanted with two very different personalities, with very different goals, to demonstrate how the premise works and how it can fall apart.

Because as mentioned above, any pilot for this show really needs to:. Have its own plot. Oh yes, the delicious twist of Mellie.

Hey Billie! Are you going to review the "Lost" episode "Epitaph One"? That was an awesome episode too!! Hehe I agree with your review Billie, much more Whedony. If only the suits at Fox had kept their stupid noses out. I actually liked this pilot about twice as much as the official one. Can't wait to read your review of Epitaph One - there's So much to say about it! Ahh, I still have to write something about Epitaph One. I had such a scoop on that, having seen it weeks ago.

And my Bluray won't arrive until late August. I definitely chose the wrong shipping method on Amazon. Nice review of a great episode! And the acting - Eliza for one seems much better here than in any of the first four episodes. Maybe not the best episode ever, but certainly a lot better than that birdheaded and not very interesting pilot. Honestly, I'm not sure why this one was objectionable? And even if it was too dark or violent, that could have easily been toned down, rather then have the entire premise redone.

Did anyone else notice that the bride at the party is the woman who played Cindy in Season 2? It's funny how words can convert you. If I rewatch it I will watch it that way. I think it was only america that didn't see that episode.

Looking it up, yes Singapore and the UK saw it. As to the comics, I was looking them up on ebay yesterday and I might get them to sit next to my Firefly hardbacks. Unless they are terrible? I can only find one collection of multiple comics and it calls itself Volume 1 but there doesn't appear to be a Volume Joined: Mar 15, Location: UK. Is that on the DVD? I watched the series when I got it on DVD. I got season one first, and I watched all the episodes with Epitaph 1 at the end. Even if I had gotten both seasons at once, I would have watched Epitaph 1 and the end of S2 and Epitaph 2 at the end of season 2, just because that's the way they seem to be meant to be watched, and I thought they worked well like that.

You must log in or sign up to reply here. Show Ignored Content. But then, I think that was the point. When Dollhouse premiered, I remember watching "Ghost" the aired pilot and thinking "Huh". At that time the only other TV show I was following was Battlestar Galactica , which was in the last half of its final season, and full of emotional charge and unexpected plot twists ultimately not something that worked well--and NB, Moore and Eick, my idea about Starbuck is still way better than your finale.

In comparison, Dollhouse developed slowly, sometimes meditatively, sometimes uncertainly. I don't think Dollhouse is perfect by any means. I'm not even sure I would say it is excellent. But it is never what we expect. And that is, as Adelle might say, what we need it to be. I will be doing a review of the aired pilot "Ghost" next, but I think it's worth it to say here that I think they're both strong episodes. The narrative cohesion and flow are also very nice.

If all the ideas, characters, and background that "Echo" includes had actually be covered in the first episode, the next few episodes might have had a more consistent tone. But we'll get to that when they come up.

As compared to the "mission of the week" feel of many other Dollhouse episodes, "Echo" has an almost poetic feel, even in the midst of violence. It is a wonderful reflection of the aims and themes of the series. It is very complex, and I certainly won't take on every minute of it here. I'm most interested in how it presents the underlying aims and themes of the series.

Let's get Platonic for a minute. Plato's Cave allegory--one of the most famous bits of classical philosophy and the only one I can ever remember reliably--basically posits that humans are all a bunch of ignorant cave-dwellers clustered underground, with a fire behind them. Some unseen person is playing with finger puppets or ancient Greek equivalent near the fire, and the humans are all watching the shadow puppet show on the wall.

According to human perception, these shadows are real life. But occasionally somebody gets out of the cave, and after they get over being blinded by the light outside, they realize that everything they've seen projected on that wall was just a poor, pale imitation of what's going on in the real world. However, if this person goes back into the cave, he or she won't be believed, and may be killed.

It's all about perception, and what we choose to do with what we perceive. This episode riffs constantly on the idea of perception and reality versus interpretation. In doing so, it gives us a level of insight into the characters that ended up taking months to achieve as the series played out on TV. And it is cleverly done. It would be very easy for this type of story to fall into cliches about truth and lies and self-deception, but instead, pretty much everything we see in this episode is both true and false, at the same time.