You’re spot on with the adolescent-appeal thing. That’s sort’ve what I was alluding to with the line about Joss wanting it both ways – he’s keen to play up his strong female central characters but every one of his series have been heavy on the low-cut tops and high-cut skirts and ZOMG teh hotness. It’s the price of doing business I suppose but I dunno, it still feels a bit cynical to me.

On the plus side, I did appreciate that the dolls have weaknesses – they aren’t just imprinted with superpowers – but I’m concerned that the show could take its own name too literally and become a dress-up show for Eliza to hit a series of stereotypes .

Episode one had Dushku hit the biker chick and sexy-librarian looks and while that’s nice, it’s not enough to get me to watch a show, because y’know, I have the internet.

I could be overly sensitive there though, because my show-attempting-to-appeal-to-adolescent-boys-spidey-sense was made to tingle when every commercial break here was top-and-tailed with Eliza standing next to Summer Glau, (Dollhouse follows The Sarah Connor Chronicles), telling us to tune in every friday to watch chicks kick ass.

Right now, I suspect Dollhouse will become something to pay vague attention to while I wait for BSG to come on.