Monthly Archives: March 2009

Being what? Sarcastic? Unfeeling? British?

Posted on Tuesday 31 March 2009 by Hazel

Dollhouse – “Echoes” Maybe it is too early for an effective “Band Candy” or a “Tabula Rasa” type episode but since the chances of a third or sixth season of Dollhouse are less than zero, I will take one now. … Continue reading →

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The many faces of Olivia Williams as Adelle DeWitt

Posted on Sunday 29 March 2009 by Hazel

These are all from the episode of Dollhouse called “Echoes”. You can’t call her wooden. The original is on Flickr.

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Your shirt

Posted on Sunday 29 March 2009 by Hazel

Seeing Red (Steven S. DeKnight) The teaser finishes and straight away I’m calling the makers of Buffy bastards as Amber Benson appears in the credits. Andy and I had a very long discussion about this episode after we watched it. … Continue reading →

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The season finale revealed!

Posted on Saturday 28 March 2009 by Hazel

Doll House Crowd Convicted, originally uploaded by moley75. This is a poor screengrab of the final few seconds of Walk on the Wild Side (1962). The dollhouse in question is a brothel.

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I don’t think I’ve got any sugar left.

Posted on Tuesday 24 March 2009 by Hazel

Dollhouse – “The Man on the Street” (Joss Whedon) This is a series that I now want to watch rather than a series I am tolerating. How mad is that anyway? It’s like continuing to buy Stereolab or R.E.M. records … Continue reading →

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No. It’s just that my people are Nordic.

Posted on Monday 23 March 2009 by Hazel

Mad Men – “The Benefactor” Oh dear, that was hard work. Don Draper is a bastard. I didn’t like him at all at any time in this episode. His use of sexual violence was horrible no matter how horrible she … Continue reading →

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Addendum to Tory Foster

Posted on Monday 23 March 2009 by Hazel

So the man who said his wife, Cally, smelled of boiled cabbage, who must also have known from Tory’s memory that Cally was about to commit murder and suicide, who called Boomer and Athena blow-up dolls, who broke Cally’s jaw, … Continue reading →

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Stranger Than Fiction

Posted on Sunday 22 March 2009 by Hazel

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t. –Pudd’nhead Wilson’s New Calendar. in Following the Equator by Mark Twain (1897) I really enjoyed this film starring one of my favourite … Continue reading →

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Can you just be kissing me now?*

Posted on Saturday 21 March 2009 by Hazel

Entropy (Drew Z. Greenberg) It was quite weird watching the whole of this episode rather than the excerpts I usually watch. That said, I think it was good. It’s not the sort that you would ever put in your top … Continue reading →

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Joss Whedon

Posted on Thursday 19 March 2009 by Hazel

So, in summary: please ignore me/pay attention to me, and judge my work on its own merits unless it has none in which case give me a pass ’cause I said I was a feminist.

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