Whedonites rejoice! Joss is coming back to the telly. On FOX no less. I’m wondering if I should be worried. The same network that canceled the marvelousness that was Firefly is now giving Joss another shot with another sci-fi show? Did they grow a brain? Did they kick themselves for canceling Firefly when they saw it become a cult classic that shows no sign of stopping?
I don’t suppose we’ll ever know for sure. But if I’m being completely honest, I don’t really care about the “how” of it. I just care that I get to see another product of Joss’ fertile imagination. Yes, I love Joss Whedon and anything he creates. Don’t care who knows it either.
ANYWAY… So the new show is called “Dollhouse” and will star Eliza Dushku (Faith from “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”.) Sci-fi website Io9 has the scoop on the first official description of the show:
The drama stars Dushku as Echo, a member of a group of men and women who are imprinted with different personalities for different assignments. In between tasks they are mind-wiped, living like children in Dollhouse, a futuristic dorm/lab. A group of people, known as “Actives” (or “Dolls”), have had their personalities wiped clean so they can be imprinted with any number of new personas and hired out for particular jobs, crimes, fantasies and occasional good deeds. When not imprinted, the Actives live, childlike and unremembering, in a hidden facility nicknamed “The Dollhouse”. Although the Actives are ostensibly volunteers, the operation is highly illegal, and under constant threat from a determined federal agent on one end and an insane rogue Active on the other. The story hinges around a greater and more subtle threat: Echo, a female Active, begins, in her mind-wiped state, to become self-aware.
Sounds pretty cool and weird and interesting to me. There are a ton of rumours floating around about the show involving casting and whether Whedon will use other Buffy alumni. I’ll keep you posted.
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