The protagonist has to be compelling from minute one. That's why Ahiru is the lead in Princess Tutu, instead of Mytho. BECAUSE MINDLESS BRAINWASHING VICTIMS WHO LACK EMOTIONS AND GET RAPED AS PART OF THEIR BRAINWASHING ARE NOT EXCITING LEADS.
For me it was not so much where Caroline started as how long Joss expected me to be invested in her without change. Like, if I had know the time frame between her being a pawn and her gaining agency (which should have been the length of a movie or the length of a miniseries), that's one thing. But asking me to just indefinitely hang out with Caroline while she has personalities of the week? No. That's one reason that Dollhouse always got SO MUCH BETTER when Joss thought he was about to get canceled.
If it had come after Battlestar Galactica and all these Marvel movies, it would have had a fighting chance.
I think you're right about that. Although Fox has a history of getting this kind of off the beaten path shows and then not actually wanting them.
Like Dr. Fred as the morally compromised Doctor of the dolls, who has to navigate the conspiracy-ridden Dollhouse and protect her charges, and train up Echo, only to discover in season 2 that she herself was Whiskey.
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For me it was not so much where Caroline started as how long Joss expected me to be invested in her without change. Like, if I had know the time frame between her being a pawn and her gaining agency (which should have been the length of a movie or the length of a miniseries), that's one thing. But asking me to just indefinitely hang out with Caroline while she has personalities of the week? No. That's one reason that Dollhouse always got SO MUCH BETTER when Joss thought he was about to get canceled.
If it had come after Battlestar Galactica and all these Marvel movies, it would have had a fighting chance.
I think you're right about that. Although Fox has a history of getting this kind of off the beaten path shows and then not actually wanting them.
Like Dr. Fred as the morally compromised Doctor of the dolls, who has to navigate the conspiracy-ridden Dollhouse and protect her charges, and train up Echo, only to discover in season 2 that she herself was Whiskey.
That would have been SO cool.