Move on, silly complainy people...
Mar. 8th, 2009 05:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
deird_ljOkay. Mini-rant for you.
Still not sure where I stand on Dollhouse, but I keep seeing people complaining about it, saying that there are "so many plotholes".
By which they apparently mean "How can the Actives be programmed like that?" and "Why would they be brilliant at what they're hired to do?" and "Why would someone hire an Active at all?"
Those aren't plotholes. They're premise-holes.
For our studio audience: the premise of Dollhouse is that there are all these Actives who are programmed to be brilliant at different things, and people hire them for all sorts of stuff.
That's the show.
Okay, if you don't like that premise, you don't have to. It's fine to say that the basis of the show is stupid.
But when you start complaining about "plotholes" in each individual episode (always the same complaints every time), it starts sounding ridiculous.
When you complain "How could they program Echo to be the world's best hostage negotiator?" and then "How could they program Echo to be the world's best girlfriend?" and then "How could they program Echo to be the world's best backup-singer-slash-bodyguard?" and then "How could they program Echo to be the world's best thief?", those are not new and different complaints. They're exactly the same complaint. And they're not a problem you're having with the plot - they're a problem with the premise.
You might as well complain that "people wouldn't imbue a girl with supernatural strength and send her out to hunt vampires", or that "all the cool medical cases wouldn't end up with the same diagnostic team", or that "six people wouldn't spend all their time hanging out at the same coffee house together", or that "an alien with the powers of time-travel wouldn't fly around in a glorified phone-booth".
Still not sure where I stand on Dollhouse, but I keep seeing people complaining about it, saying that there are "so many plotholes".
By which they apparently mean "How can the Actives be programmed like that?" and "Why would they be brilliant at what they're hired to do?" and "Why would someone hire an Active at all?"
Those aren't plotholes. They're premise-holes.
For our studio audience: the premise of Dollhouse is that there are all these Actives who are programmed to be brilliant at different things, and people hire them for all sorts of stuff.
That's the show.
Okay, if you don't like that premise, you don't have to. It's fine to say that the basis of the show is stupid.
But when you start complaining about "plotholes" in each individual episode (always the same complaints every time), it starts sounding ridiculous.
When you complain "How could they program Echo to be the world's best hostage negotiator?" and then "How could they program Echo to be the world's best girlfriend?" and then "How could they program Echo to be the world's best backup-singer-slash-bodyguard?" and then "How could they program Echo to be the world's best thief?", those are not new and different complaints. They're exactly the same complaint. And they're not a problem you're having with the plot - they're a problem with the premise.
You might as well complain that "people wouldn't imbue a girl with supernatural strength and send her out to hunt vampires", or that "all the cool medical cases wouldn't end up with the same diagnostic team", or that "six people wouldn't spend all their time hanging out at the same coffee house together", or that "an alien with the powers of time-travel wouldn't fly around in a glorified phone-booth".
