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Because like most regular, ordinary people, we enjoy watching young women and men being mentally and emotionally manipulated and subsequently abused by people with enough money to purchase their own private, living, breathing fantasies.
I'm assuming that's snark of some sort, but that is the problem the show has. I loved Buffy, like a lot of other Joss productions, but Dollhouse was a chore to watch. Does it raise issues about consent and identity? Sure, I guess. It doesn't make this anything I'd want to spend 45 minutes a week watching.
It's not enough to be intelligent. It has to be something that people would actually want to watch.
