Die Espisode hat einen Namen, einen Regisseur und folgenden Charakter:


This episode starts filming on 12th January 2009.

Writer: Jane Espenson
Director: Dwight Little
Exec Producer: Joss Whedon

[SUSAN]
FEMALE, 11 years old. She is a deeply troubled girl. GUEST STAR. PLEASE SUBMIT ALL ETHNICITIES.

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Die kommende Ausgabe vom SFX-Magazin:




Sehr gut, sehr gut.

Edit: whedonesque hat natürlich wie immer die besten Hintergründe:

And in time honoured fashion Eliza's head is blocking the lower part of the 'F' in the SFX logo.

Edit 2: Blöd, dass Fox nicht viel besser ist.

Irgendwer dieser vielen unbekannten Leute war am Set, und sie quatschen über Dollhouse. Unterwegs leider auch mit so manchem objectifying Sexismus-Shit. Bei Minute 7:40 geht's los:


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Hier fragt sich jemand, ob Dollhouse jene distinktive Humor-Drama-Mischung haben wird, die die ersten Buffy-Staffeln so besonders gemacht hat:

One reason I’m looking forward to the premiere of Dollhouse, in spite of all the gloomy stories about its production and time slot (and therefore its potential for lasting much longer than Firefly) is that Joss Whedon is the king of a particular type of TV that I love, and that hasn’t been seen much on television lately: the show that is funny and serious at the same time.

Dollhouse wirkt für mich deutlich ernster, ehrlich gesagt, als alles was Buffy in den frühen Staffeln thematisiert hat. Ich schätze es wird weniger "an sich grundsympathische" Charaktere geben, wie z.B. bei Firefly. Die moralische Grauzone wird schätze ich mal etwas erdrücken, was dann die lustigen Momente ausgesprochen lustig wirkend wird lassen. In etwa wie The Dark Knight. Oder die sechste Buffy-Staffel. Glaub ich.

Und es ist... wie nicht anders erwartet, fantastisch. Sie betont, dass alles super läuft, dass die Leute den bad buzz overblown, dass die Show - indeed - grandios ist und... meine Lieben, haltet euch fest... dass sie tatsächlich schon bei Staffel 1 ein Script beisteuern wird. All das und mehr:

Writer/producer Jane Espenson (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) defended Joss Whedon's upcoming Fox SF series Dollhouse--on which she is a consulting producer--against negative buzz and rumors, saying that it's shaping up just fine, thank you.

"It's really good," Espenson said in an exclusive interview with SCI FI Wire. "I think it could very well appeal to not just Whedonites, but a much broader audience. I think it's extremely good, and the concept just blows me away: It's fantastic, this notion of people who have been erased and are now imprintable with whatever you want them to be. ... It's sci-fi of the most human kind. It's sci-fi about people, as opposed to, you know, phenomena. And I really love that."

Espenson also downplayed reports of production interruptions, a bad timeslot and network meddling, calling them "overblown."

"We are now rolling along glitch-free," Espenson said. "I think people are very confident now that everyone is on the same page with what the show is, how amazing it can be, and I think that a lot of this has been overblown. I mean, very, very often on Buffy we were sort of, 'Oh, we don't quite have that script ready.' That's sort of just how TV goes. It's just when it happens at the beginning like this that it gets a lot of attention, and I think that people were concerned that the Firefly scenario would play out again. But, you know, I think that we're very confident of what the show is, and yeah, it's moving along so smoothly now."

Espenson said that she is currently writing a first draft of her first solo script for Dollhouse, the 11th episode of the first 13 ordered by Fox.

How is Whedon holding up? "He seems happy and comfortable and delightfully amusing as always," Espenson said. "You can't get through a few minutes with him without laughing."

Espenson said that viewers will be pleasantly surprised by star Eliza Dushku's performance in the series. "I think people are going to be really, really impressed with Eliza's performance," she said. "In fact, this cast all the way through. We have this incredibly versatile cast that's just perfect for this kind of show, where people are playing, ... as they're being imprinted with different personalities, they're playing different characters. And and so part of the genuine fun and joy of the show is just watching, 'Oh, my God, look at who they are now.'"

Gesang? Schon so früh?

Eliza Dushku revealed a few of the personas her character will take on in Fox's upcoming SF drama Dollhouse, including one in which she'll do a bit of singing.

"I had to sing a few episodes ago, yeah," Dushku said on the red carpet for the Video Game Awards on Dec. 14. "And I had to lay down a track, so we'll see how it turns out [laughs]. We'll see if a musical is a good idea after that episode airs."

The last time I spoke to Dushku, she said that she'd love to be in a Joss Whedon musical, a la Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog.

In her Dollhouse ep, she said she sang "a capella." "I was auditioning to be a backup singer for a big pop star in one episode," she said. "So it was like a gospel song I did."

Dushku's character, Echo, is a person whose mind is wiped and programmed with a different persona by a top-secret underground agency, which then sends her on various missions.

Dushku said her favorite persona so far was a killer. "I like the assassin chick that I just did," she said. "She has a lot of layers. Hyper-intelligent, and I also got to beat up a big 6-foot, 5-inch stunt guy."

What was the hardest? "A serious, professional woman with an up-do," Dushku said. "That's hard for me. Joss is like, 'I know you by now. Your comfort zone lies in your hair. I can throw you off a building or hit you with a car or make you fight seven guys, but you get uncomfortable if I put your hair in an up-do.' That's kind of insane and kind of hilarious."

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