Dollhouse: 21 Oktober 2008

Ich kann mir zwar nicht vorstellen, dass sie mit 1x05 schon fertig sind, aber für 1x06 gibt's schon mal folgende Charakterbeschreibung:

[JONAS SPARROW]
30'S TO 40'S, MALE. He is a charismatic leader of a quasi-Christian religious cult . HUGE GUEST STAR. PLEASE SUBMIT ALL ETHNICITIES

Und dann noch das druff:

[AGENT GRANT LILLY] 30's to 40's MALE. An agent who is part of a sting operation to take down Jonas Sparrow. GUEST STAR. PLEASE SUBMIT ALL ETHNICITIES OTHER THAN CAUCASIAN.

[SETH] Late 20's to Early 30's MALE. He is a member of Jonas's Cult. GUEST STAR. PLEASE SUBMIT ALL ETHNICITIES

[KRIS] 20'S FEMALE. A sweet faced young woman who is part of Jonas' cult. She is friendly to Echo. POSSIBLE GUEST STAR. PLEASE SUBMIT ALL ETHNICITIES

[IILYA] 20'S MALE. He is a shy handsome member of Jonas' cult. POSSIBLE GUEST STAR. PLEASE SUBMIT ALL ETHNICITIES

[SENATOR BOXBAUM] Late 40's to Late 50's MALE. He has a certain self-regard with a twist of homespun charm. POSSIBLE ONE DAY GUEST STAR. PLEASE SUBMIT ALL ETHNICITIES

[JESSE DILLARD] 30's MALE. A small town guy with a temper. POSSIBLE ONE DAY GUEST STAR. PLEASE SUBMIT ALL ETHNICITIES sptv050769

[POPS] 50's to 60's MALE. A pleasant shop owner in a small town. CO-STAR. PLEASE SUBMIT ALL ETHNICITIES

[FBI GUY] 30's to 40's MALE. An FBI agent who works with Paul Ballard. CO-STAR. PLEASE SUBMIT ALL ETHNICITIES

[MALE AGENT] 30's to 40's. An agent working with agent Lilly's team. CO-STAR. PLEASE SUBMIT ALL ETHNICITIES

[FEMALE AGENT] 30's to 40's. An agent working with agent Lilly's team. CO-STAR. PLEASE SUBMIT ALL ETHNICITIES

Und gossi meint: Dies ist die erste Tim Minear-Folge. Was aus dem Zweiteiler wird, der Folge 7 und 8 darstellen sollte, bleibt abzuwarten.

wiesengrund - 21. Oktober, 21:57

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Die Tür des Zusammen

Fällt mir jetzt erst auf, dass jene Tür ja mit der offiziellen Homepage 'nen kleinen Schub bekommt. Echo ist die Stadt. Die Stadt, das Zusammen, sind der Imprint auf ihrer Haut. The truest soul among us... is our togetherness? (Mögliches Staffel 4-Finale?)

wiesengrund - 21. Oktober, 10:45

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Wax Banks über Dr. Horrible

Ich kann gar nicht anfangen aufzuzählen auf wievielen Ebenen diese Analyse meine Gefühle trifft und bestätigt.

Dr Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, this summer's 45-minute web-serialized musical 'comedy' from Joss Whedon, isn't as rich as the best episodes of his long-form work; for instance, 'Restless' and 'Once More With Feeling,' respectively the dream-sequence and musical episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, are on par with Dr Horrible in terms of formal interest, but are enmeshed in seven years of complex narrative continuity that the low-budget one-off tale doesn't have (for better or worse). The advantage of a one-off is the chance to present familiar thematic material - the rush and burden and attractiveness of power, the ongoing victimization of women in men's power struggles, nerdly social difficulty - in stark terms, free of overdetermination and accumulated sympathies. The downside: a 45-minute show with 20 minutes of singing doesn't leave a lot of breathing room.

If you're a hack, that means you sacrifice complexity and just hit your one-two-three Big Points.

If you're Joss Whedon, on the other hand, you draw on whatever terrifying intergalactic power source brought you to this planet in the first place, and work the usual assortment of miracles.

Lesen, lesen, lesen!

wiesengrund - 21. Oktober, 10:43

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Whedonesque-Kommentare des Tages

Heute in unserer beliebten Kategorie: Ganze zwei Stück!

Allgemein zu Dollhouse:

I just don't know if any tv show based on the Barbie franchise can succeed in this retail-nervous environment.

Und zur Vorstellung, Neil Patrick Harris mal als Kunde zu casten:

As himself.

NPH
So, she can be anything?

DEWITT
Anything.

NPH
Can she be a unicorn?

DEWITT
... No.

wiesengrund - 21. Oktober, 09:59

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Mehr Scheduling-Fragen

Gossi fragte nämlich bei Fox nach und erhielte keine Antwort:

Asked to confirm if this means Dollhouse will lose the slot it was due to take from Terminator in January, a Fox spokeswoman told us “We haven’t announced our midseason schedule yet… but Dollhouse is currently in production and for a premiere in ’09″.

Hier sagt er übrigens, bis wann Dollhouse vermutlich drehen wird: "Dollhouse's 13 episode order finishes shooting towards the back end of January" Rechtzeitig zur Premiere, was ja Sinn macht.

wiesengrund - 21. Oktober, 09:52

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Das NATO-Alphabet

Ein paar thoughts, einklusive einer Plotline-Voraussage:

Joss Whedon's upcoming series Dollhouse is about people who can be temporarily programmed with any personality or skills. The Actives, as they're called, spend time between missions at a facility called The Dollhouse, where they have only rudimentary personalities of their own, and their names reflect this; the characters announced so are called Echo, Sierra, Victor, and November. Get it? They're named according to the phonetic alphabet.

No, no, not that phonetic alphabet, the other one—the words used in radio communication to spell out words unambiguously. Assuming Whedon doesn't intend to name his characters after numbers—which is presumably just the sort of thing he's trying to avoid by using the radio alphabet—that leaves the 26 letters as possible names. While there's nothing preventing him from naming characters Uniform or Whiskey, I suspect he's going to stick to the more name-sounding letters, so his possible name-space for future Actives includes Charlie, Delta, India, Juliet, Mike, November, Oscar, and Romeo (a potential boyfriend for Juliet?).

This leads me to my idea, which is either a prediction of what's going to happen at some point in the show, or (if he hasn't thought of it yet) a freely offered suggestion for Whedon. I think that at some point in the show, it will be revealed that there's another Dollhouse organization somewhere in the world, possibly an older one, and the Actives in that organization are named after the WWII-era Joint Army/Navy Phonetic Alphabet. The letters in that alphabet that might make good character names include Able (Abel?), Baker, Easy, Fox, George, King, Nan, Peter, Roger, and William.

Remember, you read it here first.

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wiesengrund - 21. Oktober, 09:45

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