Topher's arc in Dollhouse rivals Quagmire chewing out Brian for a showrunner using his show to uncomfortably hash out "Maybe I'm a PoS"
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Replying to @arthur_affect
"Ho ho here I am using my geeky toys and army of obedient hot people to play games with actually real af traumas and oppressions lol"
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That's a good Real moment in Dollhouse, when Topher brutally learns his deep experiments are just a way for the evil suits to get funding
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And once he's gotten them funding they will proceed to discard him for far more direct and efficient means of extracting monstrous profit
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dollhouse is such a rich site for talking about media, power, and exploitation tbh, both textually and metatextually
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I'm not gonna put up a big fight against ppl who say Dollhouse is deeply problematic and flawed, bc it is
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But Westworld has, like, all the same problems and flaws, and a few more besides
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It's actually interesting the degree to which Westworld gets seen as less flawed bc it speaks the language of "HBO prestige drama"
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You know what I wish they'd done is delved more into MiB on WW as a stand-in for the hardcore fan who Really Gets It
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Have Man in Black straight-up claim that when he goes in for the raping and the killing it's because he truly empathizes and cares
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The Problematic thing abt HBO dramas isn't the guilty-pleasure tits and blood and violation. You can get that shit anywhere
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The specific thing they ought to be critiquing is that by using a certain style and set of tropes the guilty pleasure is elevated
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Man in Black is about that, but not explicitly and clearly so, it doesn't indict the viewer they think it does
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