Feedback on the new season of Dollhouse has not been overwhelmingly positive so far. There is no UK broadcaster announced yet for the show. If you haven't been following it at US pace, let blogger Jamie Starbuck put it in perspective for you:

Living doll?

Ever seen an Eskimo fish for seals? They'll cut a hole in the ice and wait. And wait. And wait a bit more. Eventually, a seal will come up for air and BAM! Bye bye Sammy Seal. Eskimos do this a lot thus proving they have massive amounts of endurance and patience.

They should try watching Dollhouse. I you don't know (where ya been?), Dollhouse is a Joss Whedon creation. When it was first announced the internet went into meltdown and before almost any details were known, a campaign to save the programme from cancellation was born. There have been rumours aplenty about the quality (there were reshoots demanded by Fox) and even Joss Whedon himself said the show only really gets going after the first few episodes are out of the way. The programme itself concerns Echo (Eliza Dushku) as an “Active” who regularly gets her memories wiped and then replaced with those of numerous other people so she can go on exciting missions - like being a prostitute or an extreme sports fan - where she gets to show a lot of flesh for the people willing to pay for her services. Or, more accurately, pay the people that effectively own Echo; for, while she's not on a mission she's effectively just.... well, blank.

Two episodes in and I can't bear to watch any more. Leaving aside the moral implications of the premise it's one mess of a show. I don't care if it picks up after episode three or four. If at the end of the season lots of people say "you know, it started out awful but got to Alias/24/pick-your-own-favourite levels of excitement by season’s end" then I'll revisit it. The reasons it's poor at the moment are many: bad acting, woeful scripts, an illogical and ineptly implemented premise, boring direction and a level of stupidity that Smallville would be proud of to name but a few.

The second episode had ratings 15% down on the already poor first week's. The cancellation clock is ticking ever louder and even the Eskimos have gone to do something else more productive.

This is the personal opinion of Jamie Starbuck, one of our new volunteer bloggers, who'll begin contributing regularly from later in the month. Read more about some of our contributors in the next issue of SFX, on sale Wednesday 11 March.

Remember, we put up an interview with Eliza Dushku about this last week. Are you following Dollhouse? Are you a Whedon fan looking forward to what he does with this concept in future episodes? Comments below, ladies and gents…