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 [...]

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” [...]

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 [...]

“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 [...]

Adelle has sent an email to her stooges and she’s not happy - apparently she’s aware that “civilians” are trying to find her “actives”:
All,
We may have a problem regarding one of the Actives.  It appears somebody — a civilian — is trying to find them.
My office, 9am.  Don’t be late.
I’m assuming that she’s referring to Sheridan [...]