Topics of dinner discussion

[sabotabby]

While making/eating dinner, zingerella and I discussed several perplexing problems. We felt that the internets might be able to help us answer them.

1. Would Dollhouse have been better (or, more to the point, able to grapple with the questions Whedon wanted to ask) if all of the characters except Adele were genderswapped?

2. What would happen if Angel had a calling to the priesthood?

And the most troublesome, and thus important, of all:

3. Can a cyborg perform baptisms or last rites in an emergency?

Help us, internets. You're our only hope.

ETA: zingerella adds, "Okay, but what about a replicant?"

Comments

Re: I'm very tired and so have no sense of humour

[zingerella.livejournal.com]

Well, yes.

We were most particularly interested in whether Whedon would have been better able to address questions of power, agency, and the nature of self if all the gender roles had been swapped, except for Adele and maybe Topher but maybe not Topher. Of course, that would have changed the sorts of stories he could tell, but that might not have been a bad thing.

Note, we also meant better, which does not mean good.

Re: I'm very tired and so have no sense of humour

[ed-rex.livejournal.com]

I guess I should admit that I did actually enjoy Dollhouse, enough so that I came this close to re-watching it — but not quite.

What I was bitchily trying to get across was that I thought that while Whedon mentioned and alluded to questions like power, agency and the nature of self, I didn't find that he actually dealt with them.

So I don't think gender switching would have added much to the series.