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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GSHamster" data-source="post: 4734205" data-attributes="member: 20187">I think the biggest issue with this show right now is that it is about bad guys.Pretty much all the main non-doll characters, no matter how well-written or sympathetic are working for a vaguely or not-so-vaguely immoral outfit of their own free will. The only good guy is the FBI agent, who's really more of a side-story at this point.That makes it very different from Whedon's previous shows. Buffy, Angel, Firefly were about a group of people who who were essentially good, if a little rough around the edges. So the audience was free to give their whole hearts to the characters.I think that is making it hard for the audience to really connect to the characters in Dollhouse.  As much as I sympathize with the doctor or handler characters, they are participating in something is that is pretty damn sketchy. In some ways, half of me is cheering Alpha on, even if he is going about it Punisher-style.I think it's a good show, and a lot of the themes Whedon is exploring--personality, fantasy, prostitution, free will, slavery etc.--are very interesting. But I am wondering if the way it is set up intrinsically hurts the show.</blockquote>