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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 [...]

A few weeks ago casting slides containing spoilers for the new Dollhouse pilot hit the Interwebs. Charlie Jane Anders over at Io9.com has yet more spoilery delights from episode 2 of Joss Whedon’s new FOX TV series. Read on if you’re a spoiler addict:
We have a long noir-ish scene where Ballard tries to get information from an [...]

It was bound to happen..it happened last time, and it’s happened again. Casting sides for the re-written Dollhouse pilot (not the prequel, but the original pilot) have hit Internet-land. Please stop reading if you don’t like Dollhouse Spoilers. No really, this is big:
The casting sides confirm what Watching Dollhouse readers already knew- Echo will not [...]

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 [...]

You would think that gaining ’self-awareness’ was a ‘good’ thing for someone who’s undergone many a mind-wiping procedure. However, exploring the perils of self-awareness could be just one of the many ways in which Joss Whedon aims to surprise fans of Dollhouse. Because Dollhouse begins with Echo already in an ‘imprinted state’, the struggle to re-gain [...]

 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. [...]

As a big ‘LOST’ fan, I find that one of the most useful narrative devices that JJ Abrams (now Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof) excellent show has in it’s arsenal is the ‘flashback‘ (and ‘flash forward’) device, which allows the viewer an insight into the characters past/future.
Don’t worry non-Lost fans, I am going somewhere with this.
I just wonder whether [...]

“You can erase someone from your mind. Getting them out of your heart is another story.”
-Eternal Sunshine of the spotless mind
How poignant. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind appears to share several parallels with the Dollhouse premise.
Like the novel Never Let Me Go, this film could well have been a subconscious inspiration for Dollhouse - in particular, ‘Eternal Sunshine’ asks questions about self-awareness [...]

The youcantdownloadit blog have a script review of the Dollhouse Pilot, it’s quite interesting but very spoilery, so please do not read this snippet if you’re at all anti-spoiler:
Without ruining too much, I’ll talk briefly about one of the key scenes in the pilot. Echo has been given the persona of a girl who is searching for [...]