Dollhouse: Will it be good? Bad? Ugly? All three?

My first thought upon hearing about the new Joss Whedon show Dollhouse was, "...Oh, this is not going to end well."

I'm not really any more optimistic now that I've seen the character descriptions and the casting. Rant, rant ahoy!

( Pretty much every currently released spoiler about Dollhouse is discussed under here... )

Dollhouse: Will it be good? Bad? Ugly? All three?

My first thought upon hearing about the new Joss Whedon show Dollhouse was, "...Oh, this is not going to end well."

I'm not really any more optimistic now that I've seen the character descriptions and the casting. Rant, rant ahoy!

( Pretty much every currently released spoiler about Dollhouse is discussed under here... )

Um. HOW DID THIS HAPPEN.

naye and I have discovered that our sgabigbang story is not gen after all. It appears to be slash. I swear we did not do this. And yet, our 60,000 words of gen seems to have turned, entirely without our knowledge, into 60,000 words of pre-slash. I seem to recall having a discussion with someone not too long ago in which I claimed that this never, ever happens to me. Story that starts out gen and develops a pairing later on? Ha! Never happens!

Oops.

What's really funny is that we both came to the same realization more or less at once ... we'd been trying our damnedest to keep it gen and getting more and more frustrated with the story, and finally gave up on the whole gen thing, and suddenly it's all working again! Yay!

The chat kinda went south after that:

( Chat transcript )

Um. HOW DID THIS HAPPEN.

naye and I have discovered that our sgabigbang story is not gen after all. It appears to be slash. I swear we did not do this. And yet, our 60,000 words of gen seems to have turned, entirely without our knowledge, into 60,000 words of pre-slash. I seem to recall having a discussion with someone not too long ago in which I claimed that this never, ever happens to me. Story that starts out gen and develops a pairing later on? Ha! Never happens!

Oops.

What's really funny is that we both came to the same realization more or less at once ... we'd been trying our damnedest to keep it gen and getting more and more frustrated with the story, and finally gave up on the whole gen thing, and suddenly it's all working again! Yay!

The chat kinda went south after that:

( Chat transcript )

*squeak*

Still so completely SUCKING at avoiding SGA Season 5 spoilers! But ... but ... I just skimmed this interview with David Hewlett (trying desperately to read it and yet remain unspoiled ... yes, I probably believe in unicorns too) and then I came to this.

( Contains a season 5 spoiler for the plot of one of the episodes + vague spoiler for one of the longer story arcs of the season )

If you want to see the very, very gorgeous picture of David Hewlett that accompanied the article without the spoilers, you can stare at it here. Thank you to mcalex22 for the heads-up!

*squeak*

Still so completely SUCKING at avoiding SGA Season 5 spoilers! But ... but ... I just skimmed this interview with David Hewlett (trying desperately to read it and yet remain unspoiled ... yes, I probably believe in unicorns too) and then I came to this.

( Contains a season 5 spoiler for the plot of one of the episodes + vague spoiler for one of the longer story arcs of the season )

If you want to see the very, very gorgeous picture of David Hewlett that accompanied the article without the spoilers, you can stare at it here. Thank you to mcalex22 for the heads-up!