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Am reading Illuminating Torchwood:  Essays on Narrative, Character and Structure in the BBC Series by Andrew Ireland at the moment.

Has anyone else checked this one out?   Snippet from the 'Love The Coat' chapter, from Christopher Pullen:



Ignoring for a moment the fact that Suzie's name is spelled wrong, this is interesting.  Hells's bells, I am meta-starved.

Will probably post a review next week.

There is an interesting discussion taking place on viorica8957  's journal.  Non-flamey, both sides. There are spoilers for the pilot present.

"They're saying that the idea of the Dollhouse makes them uncomfortable because it represents the ideal of a woman being utterly passive and fulfilling any (presumably male) fantasy. The Stepford Wives deals with a similar concept. The reason that this is problematic is because it robs the women of all of their autonomy, and places them under the complete control of someone else- and as far as we've seen, the "someone else" has always been a man. The thing is, saying that one thing Joss has done makes them uncomfortable doesn't mean that they're dismissing all of Joss's work as misogynistic, and that's an important distinction to make."

Check out dollhouse_meta  too, if you're interested.