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

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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” [...]

Not content with giving us a rather refreshing Joss Whedon interview, io9.com also managed to catch a word with Tahmoh Penikett.
When Tahmoh Penikett talks about his Dollhouse character Paul Smith, I really get the sense that he will get to grips with the role and provide an air of intelligence and intrigue to the character. He speculates some [...]

Are we shaped by our environment and experiences..or by the genes that nature has given us? Is it possible that both play an equal part in shaping us? Are you drawn towards Joss Whedon’s “Dollhouse” because you grew up surrounded by Sci-fi and fantasy (or perhaps you were denied it)? Or were you simply born [...]

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 [...]

The LA Times has some vids featuring Eliza Dushku, Joss Whedon and Tahmoh Penikett each talking about Dollhouse.
Eliza Dushku talks about her duel role of producer-actor for Dollhouse, which she says makes it more “personal” to her. This is a good thing, as it means that she really really really cares about the show, probably as much [...]

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’ [...]

Maybe it’s just me, in fact it probably is, but one thing I love about all of this Dollhouse buzz, is seeing all of the different and imaginative ways in which people come up with to describe Joss Whedon’s next big TV outing. Many are wide of the mark, such as one description from a [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]