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Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind: Dollhouse Inspiration?

“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 [...]

New DOLLHOUSE PILOT Images

Fox have released more Dollhouse images from the pilot episode. See below and here for the larger images featuring Echo, Eliza Dushku, Topher Brink, Boyd and Joss Whedon.

What is an “Active” and Why is it The “Truest Soul Among Us”?

In the recent trailers we see head honcho of the Dollhouse facility, Adelle DeWitt, make the direct comparison between “robots” and an “active”. Whilst many of us would consider ‘programmed dolls’ to be closer to robots than ‘humans’, she tells it straight: “An active is the truest soul among us”.
So what does this mean exactly? Are [...]

“Who Are You?” - Whedon Interview

It’s amazing how sometimes things just come together..they fall into place so accidentally that you believe it must be fate. This seems to be the case for Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse, which he says was actually inspired over lunch with lead actress Eliza Dushku (Echo). The seeds of his idea seemed to impact upon Dusku, who seemingly was [...]

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