Dollhouse. Thoughts and musings. Spoiler free. Whedonites rejoice.

It's been a rocky career for Joss Whedon. With the cancellation of Buffy and angel and most recently Firefly, one can say he has not had the best career in television. But what the man does have is a legion of fans. The exploits of whedonites and the more prolific Browncoats are well documented, with Serenity being the most remarkable.

His new show Dollhouse has been going on for 6 weeks, and although early criticisms have rung true, we're told that the show will hit it's stride and be totally awesome from the 6th episode onwards. Early reviews of episode 6 have been positive.

I'm here to agree. The show so far has been freak-of-the-week-type of affair. Having an engagement as the A plot and Paul Ballard's FBI agent shticks as the B plot. Mostly. The show has had six weeks worth of world-building and this is where it reaps the fruits of it's labour.

Without giving away too much, this episodes turns what has been status quo for six weeks upside down and gives us a whole new ballgame. The new seeds sowed in this episode blows our preconception about the show out of the water. It was called a flawed, but intriguing concept before but this week the flaws are taken out of the equation.

Every scene gels together so well you'll wonder what has been going on the past few weeks if you haven't been reading the blogs. The studio's decision to give up interfering with the direction of the show has proved to be for the best. This episode is easily the best hour of television I've seen in a long time.

For those who have followed Dollhouse out of a sense of loyalty to Joss Whedon, the time is now. Time to tell your friends and family how freaking awesome this show will be. Because after watching episode 6, there's no way that you can't.

Discard your preconceptions. Nothing in this show is what it seems. If you have been interested but haven't checked it out, now's the time. Sad to say, I fear there won't be a suitable jumping on point for new viewers in the future. Because Whedon has said he's not a fan of "reset television", in which every episode is self contained and does not have a large, overarching plot. Episode 6 feels very much like the payoff we've been waiting for. We sat through the pilot and the faux suicidal Britney episode(which actually sounds kinda cool written that way) for this.

Critics have slammed it since the pilot, calling it a flop, wasted opportunity, and having untapped potential. Well the tapping has begun. There's no better proof of that than episode 6. The DVD release better sell like gangbusters.

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE let there be a season 2.