Joss Whedon’s DOLLHOUSE FOX TV series - FANSITE - Watching Dollhouse

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One of the things that I like about the ‘Dollhouse’ premise (not the show, I haven’t seen that yet) is that it deals with fantastical science and it’s interaction with the human condition. At the heart of the premise is memory, or rather, mind-wiping. Such a vulgar term, but it is what it is. Anyways, [...]

So this one isn’t that realistic, even within the fictional confines of Dollhouse. But it’s plausible that a country’s Olympic committee would sanction the hiring of an “active” for the purposes of winning gold at the Olympics for their country. Whilst Usain Bolt (pictured above) uses his phenomenal natural ability and technical prowess to [...]

With the ability to programme the actives with muscle memory that allows them to operate beyond normal human capabilities, we could well see a government agency or even a company or individual hire out an active (or group of actives) for specific combat assignments or high stake missions. Who knows, our actives might even be [...]

Echo as a Karate expert? Yeah, I could see that. Karate is all about discipline and defence (apparently), so if someone needs the protection without wanting to actually kill anyone, then programming an active with Karate muscle memory might be a good option, none of this “wax on, wax off” business.
Apparently one of Eliza Dushku’s [...]

One of the more surreal clips from the Dollhouse trailer shows Echo and her pals slipping into coffin-like chambers, where they go to fall asleep. But who in their right mind sleeps in a coffin? It would appear that coffins are not only reserved for the dead in Dollhouse, as with twisted logic the zombie-like “actives” [...]

Over on our Forums, member TruEcho has alerted us to a very interesting article from the AfterEllen girls TCA tour of the Dollhouse set.
“stepping onto a set is like getting an opportunity to actually enter a fictional world” - Malinda Lo
Malinda reveals some intriguing details about the Dollhouse layout, the possible relevance to the characters [...]

It’s been quite a few weeks for Joss Whedon and Dollhouse, the acclaimed Doctor Horrible launched and soon after broke the Internet, the TCA came to visit the Dollhouse set, Comic-Con has pushed the Dollhouse promotional front into over-drive, Whedon announced his plan for Dollhouse Webisodes, Dollhouse filming resumes in just under two weeks..oh and it was [...]

 Because these are the important questions being asked by bellasugar.com.

Wait! There’s a Dollhouse tie-in somewhere! You see, I would imagine that Dushku’s “Echo”will be portrayed with many different ‘traits’ depending upon which persona she’s been programmed to have for a particular assignment. Lipstick, in this instance, is just an example of how the “Actives”, and ‘Echo’ [...]

(This piece contains slight Dollhouse spoilers in the 3rd paragraph, regarding the length of time the volunteers remain as ‘actives’)
Today I read a most interesting article about the ‘ethics of erasing bad memory’. Dr. Haig tells the real-life story of a young woman called Ellen, who is undergoing a biopsy when she accidentally overhears that she has cancer. [...]

Brink: “Hello Echo”
Echo: “Did I fall asleep?”
Brink: “For a little while..“
*Shudder*
One of the most fascinating characters that Dollhouse will introduce, has to be Topher Brink - AKA Mind-wiping Guy. He has been described as a “Genius programmer who’s articulate, nerdily attractive, and blithely amoral”. I find this interesting, because is he really the type of person [...]