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

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From time to time I like to share articles on real-life happenings that tap right into the heart of the Dollhouse premise. Here’s one such article on memory-wiping, from Reuters:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - It seems like a movie plot, but scientists have developed a way to erase specific memories in mice while leaving others intact and not damaging [...]

“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 [...]

In this interview with IGN, Joss Whedon made reference to the novel Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro. I want to highlight this because Whedon seemed pleased that actor Tahmoh Pinekett found parallels between the novel and the early Dollhouse script.
I admit, I have never read the book, but I’ve since done a bit [...]