Da Fringe grad in die Winterpause einbiegt, nur mal ein kurzes Update: Fringe ist erfolgreich. Kein Hit, wie es Fox gerne glauben machen würde, aber ziemlich solide. Die Season bisher zog ungefähr ein 3.7 Rating in der werberelevanten 18-49 Gruppe hervor (was in etwa 5 Millionen Zuschauern entspricht) und bewegte sich insgesamt im 8-10 Millionen-Bereich.

Für Dollhouse sind diese Zahlen Freitags natürlich völlig unrealistisch, aber ich schätze, wenn sie ein 3.0 im Durchschnitt halten können bei 18-49, dann stehen die Chancen relativ gut. Pro7 hat Fringe schon erstanden, übrigens. Das klassische ein Jahr Verspätung... das will ich für Dollhouse auch haben.

Für alle, die sich durch die Videos (leider!) nicht durchkämpfen wollten, hat watchingdollouse.com eine feine Zusammenfassung erstellt:

1. The Dollhouse set is HUGE. It’s clear that a lot of $$’s have gone in to that baby. I hope Fox have enough left over for promoting the series!
2. According to Whedon, the dollhouse facility is supposed to represent contradictory themes - Spa/Prison and fantasy/horror. I like this idea, it tallies nicely with the appealing idea of erasing bad memories - identity gets erased with it. D’oh!
3. Whedon describes the Actives (or Dolls) as being ’shell-like’. There’s many ways to describe the loss of identity, but I like this one the most, and i’ll keep that in mind whilst watching the show.
4. The “very rich and very connected” are the main people in the market for the Dolls. The very ‘powerful’, therefore, will exploit the labor of powerless humans. Hmm, this isn’t just trafficking, it’s a form of slavery, whether or not the Dolls volunteered. Wow, I’m rooting for the Dolls already.
5. Echo’s self-awareness will gradually unfurl over the course of the season. Seriously, how can this not be serialized?
6. I think that Whedon and Dushku believe the Friday night slot is a bad one, but they are also optimistic over DVR potential, and hope that Dollhouse can revive Friday night television. This is really the only attitude they could have if they want the show to be successful, but it’s still good to hear them look at the positives.
7. They also suggest that Dollhouse is actually better off being paired with “The Sarah Connor Chronicles” than “24″.
8. Dollhouse is creatively very much a joint effort on behalf of Fox and Team Whedon. There have been some testing times, as we’ve heard before, but there’s now a healthy co-operation between both network and producers.
9. As we already knew, the original pilot will not see the light of day on Fox (DVD, anyone?). This is because key story events have changed so much that to leave the original pilot in there just wouldn’t make any sense. Fair enough.
10. Whedon and Dushku appear to be acutely aware of the negativity that has surrounded production of the show, but thankfully they seem to be extremely optimistic. Rightly so.

Sklaverei ist mir als Thema bisher gar nicht aufgefallen, aber wie oft betont wird, dass die "rich" eben die Kunden sind, legt das eigentlich schon deutlich nahe.

Undatiert, aber da es um "Nobel Son" geht (aktueller Film mit Eliza, dessen Premiere wohl die Interviewflut erklärt), schätz ich mal, pretty aktuell. Es geht, natürlich auch um Dollhouse, dann auch um Buffy und ihre Produzentenrolle. Die Whedoniten der Welt streiten sich gerade darum, ob Eliza da unterwegs nicht einen gravierenden Dollhouse-Spoiler rausgelassen hat, oder ob der Plotpoint so nebensächlich ist, dass sie ihn eh bedenkenlos sagen darf. Was ich damit sage: Wer kein Risiko eingehen möchte, list es besser nicht:

MoviesOnline: Eliza, can you talk a little about what you’re doing now? I know you’re doing Dollhouse with Joss Whedon and that starts next month, doesn’t it?
Eliza: We air Friday, the 13th of February. It’s awesome. We’re on episode 7 of 13 and I’ve already played 20 something different characters and underneath these clothes I’ve got bruises galore. I’m so proud of them. I’m riding motorcycles, bow hunting, rock climbing, river rafting, moi thai fighting 6’5” dudes, like just everything.

MoviesOnline: Did doing Buffy help you with the martial arts part of that?
Eliza: We have the same stunt coordinator, Mike Gunther. He’s awesome and he was also on Angel so I’ve had 6-page fight scenes that I did with him years ago. Yeah, it helped, but even on Buffy I was kind of like that crazy 17-year-old kid that showed up on Buffy and I grew up with three older brothers and I showed up from Boston and said “I know you have a stunt double here for me but how much can I do? I want to fight. I want to get into it.” And they would just teach me the stuff and that, to me, is really fun. It’s really exciting.

MoviesOnline: So the premise is you’re playing 20 different people?
Eliza: It’s about a group of people that can be imprinted with any personality basically for hire.

MoviesOnline: Does your personality totally change?
Eliza: Yeah. We’re human beings that volunteer for five years of our life. As the story unfolds, there are dollhouses all over in cities around the world and there are these underground private organizations that take people, wipe their personalities clean, and house them in these beautiful, Japanese Zen garden/underground dorm lab and then they put us in a chair and literally put a wedge in the chair and can imprint us to be anything that anyone wants – fantasies, bank heists…

MoviesOnline: It sounds like an actor’s dream come true.
Eliza: Yeah. The last episode they surgically implanted cameras into my eyeballs and sent me into a cult compound as a blind woman. It was cool.

MoviesOnline: Do you have a single injury that’s your biggest badge of honor at this point?
Eliza: Yeah, my neck that I can’t turn. [laughs] I have a really good bruise right here (points to her leg) and a really good one right here (shows her arm) that I’ve been showing off a lot.

(...)

MoviesOnline: With Twilight being such a big hit, the rumor mill is buzzing about the possibility of a Buffy movie. Is that just fans’ wishful thinking or has there been real talk about it?
Eliza: I can give you Joss’ number and you can call him. [laughs] He’s over on the lot right now. I don’t know.

MoviesOnline: Would you ever want to go back and play it again?
Eliza: You never know. That’s what I’ve learned.

Bryan: Keep it open.

Eliza: I mean that show is just such an international phenomenon. There are like college courses now that dissect the world of Buffy. It’s just a testament I think to what an extraordinary creative genius Joss is and I just love the guy. He’s a hardcore feminist, he’s funny, he’s dramatic, he’s twisted, and he’s just dear. He’s my friend and my hero and people gag because we get really lovey dovey.

MoviesOnline: Did you ever do the conventions or anything like that?
Eliza: Yeah, girl. I did. [laughs] And people would show up and be like hey, can we take a picture of our matching face tattoos, and I’d be like, uh, that was a decal. And you watch the color drain from people’s faces and they’d be like I got that tattoo so we could be lifelong sisters and I’m like, sorry. They’d show up with vampire teeth and stuff.

MoviesOnline: After you film the 13th episode of Dollhouse, are you going to be looking at film scripts to try to squeeze in during a potential hiatus?
Eliza: I just launched a production company with my brother. It’s called Boston DIY Productions and we have 3 films that we’re about to do, one of which is with Randy and Jody. The first one is going to be a biopic on Robert Mapplethorpe and my brother is going to play Robert and we have an awesome cast and an amazing filmmaker, Ondi Timoner, who did a documentary called Dig! It won at Sundance a few years ago. She has another movie that just got accepted at Sundance. She’s just awesome. So we’re going to do Mapplethorpe. Jody is actually going to direct and they’re going to write this movie we’re doing together. Then I have a big budget, working class Lara Croft crazy studio thing we’re going to do too.

MoviesOnline: How are you enjoying being a producer and taking a break from acting?
Eliza: Like Bryan said, it’s nice because it gives you something else to do. As an actress, sometimes you go to your trailer and you’re like what do I do? Do I watch Tyra Banks on TV or what? Boredom is just not an option now. I mean it’s really cool. And I’m also a producer on Dollhouse because Joss and I basically put the thing together. I never really wanted to be an actor. I kind of tripped and fell into it and it gives me a chance to feel like I’m doing more than just being…I get to be involved in more of the machine and the operation and yeah, like walking into a room, there’s a different kind of confidence when you feel like you’re actually a part of, as opposed to being rated. So that’s cool. I love it.

Hier das völlig spoilerfreie Ende:

If it weren't for Whedon's pedigree, I'm not sure I'd be dying to see a second episode. But for me, the main draw now is not seeing Dushku become a different person every week, but getting to see Joss Whedon become a different writer every week.

Das ganze Ding spoilert etwas die Handlung des Piloten, streicht aber recht deutlich und nachvollziehbar Stärken und Schwächen heraus. Im wesentlichen stört sie nur, dass es keine Serie, sondern ein Eliza-Showcase ist. Kann man jetzt finden wie man mag.

Edit: gossi weist darauf hin, dass dies wohl der erste tatsächliche Screener ist, der verschickt wurde: "Countdown to screener leak in torrent form begins.. "

Wie vorhin, leichte Spoiler über Echo-Imprints, aber nix gravierendes:

TVGuide.com: Turning to TV, how are things looking for Fox's Dollhouse? [The sci-fi thriller stars Dushku as Echo, an "Active" who has covert mission-specific personalities imprinted on her.]
Dushku: Awesome. We have all these rumors going around [in the wake of a production stoppage], and yet we're on Episode 7 out of our initial 13. We've made some changes.

TVGuide.com: Hey, it's totally fine to stop and catch your breath and do things right.
Dushku: Completely. And we feel like we're in an awesome groove. The scripts are tight and exciting, and we've definitely upped the action. Initially, we were doing a lot of set-up, and Fox and Joss decided that we needed to have the some of the payoffs come sooner. As a result, I sashay to work every day! I know that sounds crazy, but I love it. I've played probably twenty-some different characters in the past couple months, and every one is a thrill. I've been riding motorcycles and deer hunting, I had a Muay Thai fight scene with a 6-foot-5 cop, I went river rafting, rock climbing.... The whole gamut.

TVGuide.com: When we spoke at the summer TCA (watch video), you told me you were bringing some "skills" of your own to the table. But it sounds like you've added a few.
Dushku: Yes, my "mad skills." [Laughs] Joss and I have been good friends over the years, and one of the things we laugh about is how I live a crazy life and am in 10 places at once. I'm a bit of a storyteller, so I share all these things and he puts them in the show. He joked at Comic-Con that this show is a bit biographical.

TVGuide.com: Should your and Joss' fans be worried by Dollhouse's Friday time slot?
Dushku: We're in the age of DVR, man. People watch what they want to watch, and we feel confident that we're going to bring [existing] fans and welcome new ones. The show is extraordinary. It's cool and it's hot and it's different. It's nice being paired with Sarah Connor Chronicles as a sort of female empowerment night. It takes a little bit of the pressure off [versus airing on Mondays], with 24 coming on after two years. I think the time slot gives us time to come on, air all of our shows and hook people. And I truly believe it will.

TVGuide.com: You obviously had certain expectations and things you were looking forward to with Dollhouse. But now that you're well into filming it, what has surprised you about the show?
Dushku: I've obviously played a lot of strong characters, but Joss, from the very beginning, said, "I also see a lot of vulnerability, and different shades of you that others maybe haven't seen." So I get these scripts and they're different for me. We had this joke where Joss put me in a '40s up-do and it totally threw me off. It just threw me off. [Laughs] He said, "Eliza, I have you figured out. Your comfort zone lies in your hair, and I'm going to take you out of your comfort zone as much as possible. I can throw you off a building or dump you in a river or have you get hit by a truck, and none of that fazes you. But a '40s up-do sends you spinning. So get ready, honey — I'm going to take you for a little adventure!"

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Das erste offizielle Merchandise sind... Papierpuppen zum Selberbestln. Das offzielle Wiki bietet sie an, Sierra ist die erste.

Naja. Aber Fotos machen und so wird wohl etwas Motivation liefern. Promotion läuft weiter, und das ist auch gut so.

Ich will ja hier auch anfangen bald über die (erstaunlich unglaublich gute) achte Staffel von Buffy zu berichten. Hier mal das gerade veröffentlichte Cover zum Whedon-Arc "Time of Your Life", dem Fray-Crossover, dass Ausgaben 16-20 bündelt.



Dieser (vierte) Sammelband dürfte dann April/Mai kommen.

Und was für eins:



Eliza und Messer. Immer schon ne gute Combo. Auch nicht schlecht, dass wenn schon Fox noch bis Januar warten möchte mit Promotion, wenigstens andere den Job übernehmen. Außerdem gibt's noch ein Joss-Zitat:

Joss Whedon, creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, returns to TV on Feb. 13 with Fox mystery-drama hybrid, Dollhouse starring Eliza Dushku as a proverbial human chameleon. ''Eliza is a real femme fatale — an old-school Ava Gardner — but also very versatile,'' says Whedon of the Buffy alumna. ''I wanted to showcase that.''

Link

Gehe zu whedonesque:

E! Online's Kristin is visiting the set very soon and is looking for questions to ask Joss, Eliza and Tahmoh. So if you have a question for them, send your emails to tvdiva@eonline.com.

Na dann: Auf geht's.

Aber lassen wir durchgehen. Die ansonsten relativ trockenen Serienjunkies berichten über die Dr. Horrible-DVD:

Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog bricht wieder alle Rekorde

Na dann. :)

Edit: Ein bisschen haben sie ja eh Recht: Jetzt runter auf $9,99 und auf Platz 11 bei Movies & TV. Vier der zehn besseren sind The Dark Knight, also eigentlich Platz 8.

Ein Interview mit Eliza! Sie redet über den Timeslot und alles:

News that Whedon had to reshoot the original pilot also caused concern. But Dushku assured that it was Whedon's creative decision. His original vision was for a film-noir tone, and he decided that straight-up action works better for the series, she said.

Likewise, any retooling Whedon did for the first 13 episodes was in the interest of making a more exciting show. "I think [the way] he also originally had outlined it, we had the 13 episode pickup, but he wanted to gradually play out stories and do a lot of setups," she said. "[The network] wanted more payoffs early on to hook people, I think, so we made that adjustment. I think it's been really successful. The scripts are tight, solid, fast, action, drama, comedy. It's really great."

Unterwegs spoilert sie sogar ein paar Rollen, mit denen sie imprinted wird, meiner Meinung nach für "True Believer" und "Echoes".

Nun endlich da.

Ich find's ganz ehrlich hervorragend. Es bringt Moist ungefähr so wie uns Zuschauer damals mit Dr. Horrible in Kontakt: Auf der Sympathie-mit-Losern-Ebene, die sich doch trauen gegen den Stärkeren aufzumucken. Und seine Backstory ist ungefähr so witzig wie traurig. Ganz ein Whedon, dieser Zack.

Heut soll es soweit sein. Nach Capt. Hammer bekommt Moist, unser aller heimlicher Lieblingscharakter des Jahres 2008, ein eigenes Online-Comic auf Myspace Dark Horse Presents. Und das soll heute rauskommen. Um uns die Zeit zu verkürzen, hier ein Interview mit Schreiber Zack Whedon (dessen erste Fringe-Folge schon ausgetrahlt wurde, und hoffentlich gut, besser ist, denn die Serie braucht echt bald dringende Hilfe...):

Moist, as it turns out, started off as abnormally dry, but “his father was just not very content with who his son was,” comic scribe Zack Whedon told us. “He meddled a little too much [by getting him a Soviet humidifer that backfired]. I think that’s what turned him into an outsider.”

Lonely and bored, Moist resorts to phone sex operators to have just a little human contact — that is, until the day he witnesses Dr. Horrible try out one of his ray guns on Captain Hammer (one meant to neutralize muscle and make you weak). Inspired, Moist finally figures out his purpose in life.

“By the time we see him in the show,” Whedon said, “he’s come a long way in terms of his self esteem. He was lost, he was sad, but now he’s figured out that his purpose is to be a lowgrade henchman.”

Zwei Seiten Preview gibt's auch.

Whoa! Spoiler TV hat news:

Writer: Andrew Chambliss
Director: David Solomon
Start Date: 12/16/08

[RAMIREZ]
FEMALE, 30’s Latin. A tough woman and a handler in the Dollhouse. GUEST STAR. POSSIBLE RECURRING.

Neuer Handler! Schon der dritte, wenn ich mich nicht täusche. Und endlich auch Schreiber-Regisseur-Info. Ich schätze 16.12.2008 meint den Produktionsstart.

Und es ist nicht nur huuuuge. Es ist amazing.



Im zweiten Teil gibt's dann sogar von Joss und Eliza Zustimmung zur Freitags-Entscheidung. Und um dritten dann um Fox-Interference und Fan-Negativität.

Ziemlicher Wahnsinn, das ganze Ding.

Teil 1 - 2 - 3

Das Event, das uns eines der ... erm, interessantesten Eliza-Bildchens der letzten Monate lieferte (ob sich bei dem Herrn links um Rupert Murdoch handelt, ist noch unklar...), hat auch ein Interview zu bieten. Nicht Dollhouse-realated, aber anyway:

Eliza's video interview with Naamua Delaney about CNN Hero Viola Vaughn. Viola Vaughn was a friend and colleague of Eliza's mother. She is the founder and Executive Director of the Women's Health Education and Prevention Strategies Alliance (WHEPSA) and the '10,000 Girls program' in Kaolack, Senegal, West Africa.

Bei Amazon.com. Und zwar mit 19. Dezember als Relesaedate (pretty knapp, huh?). Wegen internationalem Versand dürfte sich das nie und nimmer für uns hier ausgehen mit Weihnachten, aber da kann sich ja noch was tun. Hier, was Joss zum ganzen zu sagen hat:

Well, my turkey (or, in some cases, tofurkey) stuffed friends, we literally just put the finishing touches on the disc. Is it worth fifteen hard-earned dollars? Absolutely. In fact, I can say without reservation that the Dr. Horrible DVD is worth $15.23 EASILY. More, if your dollars weren't the hard-earned kind, just the kind you have lying around in your mom's purse. God knows WE'VE worked hard to earn 'em. "Commentary! The Musical" is the most painstaking and exhausting piece of whimsey I have ever mistaken for a good idea. It has nearly twice as much music as Dr. Horrible itself -- since you can't really talk that much during a commentary musical or it sounds like a regular commentary. (Which we also have, with the stars and writers, plus making-of's, ELE applications, and a few items left lying around by a notorious Bunny...) I can say without hesitation that I hesitate to say it's great. And by great I mean ridiculous. It's sophmoric, solopsistic, silly and the most fun I've had being exhausted since the fabled Mushortio itself. And everyone sings beautifullly. Which enrages me. I a little bit hate my friends now.

The listed street date is, by the way, a little later than we'd expected -- I'm hoping Amazon is just playing it safe and we can beat that date. More on that as we learn it. Expect a twittering sensation.

Finally, I just want to say "thank you" to everybody who has supported this venture. We've been able to pay our crew and all our bills, which means a lot. What means more is proving that completely independent ventures can muscle their way through the blizzard of big-budget behemoths. (A blizzard of behemoths? Back to writing school, alliteration-junkie!) All that rhetoric about the future of entertainment that flew about during the Strike is still entirely true. We need to find our own way of producing entertainment. A lot of people are watching Dr. Horrible to see if it's any kind of model -- way more people than I expected -- and it means everything to me to help pave the way for artists to start working and making a living from the ground up. There are a couple of real pioneers in this that I know personally: Felicia Day, I'm thrilled to say, and choreographer Chris Elam are both looking far ahead in terms of monetization and interactivity. Me, I'm more like Jimmy Stewart in "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance", but at least I'm out there. Thanks, he finally summed up, to you.

My story has become tiresome! But wait till you hear the songs.

Did we cover "silly"...?

Heißt das Dr. Horrible ist jetzt schon, vor der DVD, auf Null? Wahnsinn!

Und dazu der whedonesque-Kommentar des Tages:

o/`
Now the wishlist's real
Now Dr. Horrible is here
On a brand new DVD
With Nathan, Felicia, and Neil
(everything you ever)

And I will watch
whole thing
o/`

Edit: Und sie hören nicht auf:

Bad Horse!

DVD, DVD, DVD, DVD.

It will spread across the nation,
In a DVD-a-thon.
So go ahead and order it,
At your Amazon.

It needs time for shipping
So let the wait begin,
It will be great, a tour de force
The extras will be nice of course.

DVD, DVD, DVD, almost!

Dr Horrible will be out
Three weeks from now, they swear.
Soon you could be holding it,
Assuming that you dare
So make the Whedons gleeful
And order up a pair

It's in your cart,
You're at check-out,
Just one more click,
Don't miss out!

Brand New!

Buying this is a moral dilemma 'cause at first
Amazon take so long to deliver, they're the worst
I'd be happy to wait for another shop, it's true
But I don't think there'll be one, so bother, stuff and poo
Yet I'll be alright

It's a brand new disc and our spirits high
Might be a recession, but we're going buy
Lots of shiny extras and some evil guys
It's a brand new disc!

My Eyes!

Any Whedon fan you meet
Can see that Amazon is such a treat.
'Cause they sell the DVD
That has the dopest melodies
Since we saw Buffy with the demon Sweet.

Listen close to everybody's mouse
And hear that clicking sound.
Whedonites are not leaving the house
'Til postman comes around.

I cannot believe my eyes
How I wait for my Christmas prize.
But my fifteen bucks
Combat a world that sucks. Now just add fries.

Eins, das ich echt nicht erkenne!

"Will it be a region-free
for foreigners who need it?
We will ask and we will beg
and we will even plead it.

I don't care myself you see
for I am the right region
but for those now overseas
(their numbers are now legion)

They will want it now as well
they will not want to wait
they will pay some extra cost
and even extra freight."

Edit 2: Ist schon auf Platz 1 der Shakers und auf Platz 53 der allgemeinen Movies & TV Amazon-Charts.

Edit 3: Und ein Behind the scenes Video gibt's auch noch.

Zu jenem Interview damals gibt es übrigens nun ein partielles Transkript:

Mother Jones: How has writing for television been different from writing for film?

Joss Whedon: I respect television in a way that some people who came out of film might not. Some people might take this as stereotyping, but I describe television as feminine and movies as masculine, in the sense that television wants to examine a problem from all sides and talk about it for a long time, and movies just want to hit the climax and then maybe have a smoke. I respect the rules of TV, the rules of keeping things commercial and interesting and pop-y and fun.

MJ: Some examples of those rules?

JW: My cast was not hideous to look upon. I made every act break at an exciting time that would make you want to come back after you examined these products that we used to examine before TiVo. And I tried to make money for the people that I work with, like Hyman Roth.

MJ: Tell us a little bit about your concept of "womb envy."

JW: Everybody makes fun of Uncle Joss when he brings up womb envy! But I still believe in it. It's a very simple theory and I gave it a silly name, but basically it just seemed to be a fundamental thing that women have something men don't, the obvious being an ability to bear children, and the resilience to hang in as parents. I don't understand why or how anyone ever pulled off the whole idea of "women are inferior." Men not only don't get what's important about what women are capable of, but in fact they fear it, and envy it, and want to throw stones at it, because it's the thing they can't have.

MJ: When you wrote Buffy, were you actively thinking, "I'm going to make an empowered feminist icon," or were you just intuitively telling the story you wanted to tell? Or are they the same?

JW: It's both, and they're not the same. Because "intuitively" means, "This is what turns me on, this is what I need to see, this is my obsession." I've seen a lot of movies [written] by guys who set out to [create a feminist icon] and didn't feel it. Look at A League of Their Own. All of the good lines are Tom Hanks'. Those guys are really fabulous writers, but it's not enough to say, "This should be done." You have to need to do it. The way Guillermo del Toro [Pan's Labyrinth] needs to make movies about insects—that man cares more about insects than anyone I know. He clearly is obsessed. And obsession is beautiful. It's what makes art.

MJ: As a father, what do you think about the fact that Pixar doesn't have a [top-billed] female protagonist yet?

JW: I wrote Toy Story [for Pixar]. And I remember at the time having a crisis in myself because I couldn't figure out Bo Peep. There's no reason why there couldn't be [female Pixar leads]. There is that moment in The Incredibles, when the mom has a pep talk with Violet and Violet stands up like a hero and you can see her other eye for the first time. [My wife] said, "Oh look, they wrote a scene for you."

MJ: What kind of fallout have you gotten for Buffy having an affair with a woman in the Buffy comic?

JW: I have gotten no fallout of any kind. The fact of the matter is that [women kissing] is kind of old news. It's even old news in pop culture. We tried not to turn it into a giant event and spend months going "Wait for the Buffy kiss—so she can figure out how heterosexual she is!"

MJ: You create interesting heroes, as well as interesting villains. In Angel, you have the good guy fighting against an evil law firm, Wolfram and Hart. In Firefly, you have Captain Malcolm Reynolds, a defeated rebel soldier, battling the victorious planetary Alliance.

JW: Evil doesn't come in saying, [breathes heavily, Darth Vader-style], "It's your faaather." Generally speaking, it's a lot more nebulous. In fact, it usually isn't evil so much as it is a lot of people overthinking things until they find themselves caught in an untenable situation.

MJ: In the second-to-last season of Angel, the hero actually takes a job with Wolfram and Hart, and eventually he just loses it and brings down the house.

JW: Well, you know, I'm sure I'm going to bring down News Corp with Dollhouse. Hmmm—maybe you shouldn't quote that. I'm not a huge fan of Mr. Murdoch's politics, God knows, or his methods. But I've been at Fox on and off for practically the whole of my career. Am I the biggest hypocrite in the world for taking their money? Am I doing any good? Or am I working for Wolfram and Hart? I feel at the end of the day, I'm doing some good. They're letting me tell my stories. We'll see if the stories on Dollhouse actually come out the way I plan them to.

Habe gerade diese Seite hier gefunden, die ein paar lustige Namen in den Spekulationstopf wirft. Z.B. ein paar neue staff writer (Tracy A. Bellomo und Andrew Chambliss, beide eher unbeschrieben Blätter) und folgende Regisseure: Joss Whedon, Rod Hardy, Terrence O'Hara, Felix Enriquez Alcala, James A. Contner, Allan Kroeker, David Straiton, Steven S DeKnight, David Solomon, Elodie Keene.

Ein paar davon kenn ich nicht, ein paar (Contner, Kroeker) sind jedoch alte, gern gesehen Bekannte. Vor allem Kroeker, sollte es denn stimmen. An sich ist die Liste schlüssig: 10 Namen, ungefähr so viel habe ich auch erwartet für ne 13-Folgen-Staffel. Ich schätze Joss macht drei und David Solomon zwei Folgen. Und a propos Solomon: Er hat dort auch einen "Co-Executive Producer"-Credit. Wär auch 'ne neue, coole Info.

The DVD is days away from being released!

Make it a perfect holiday gift. Buy one or two or three...

New merchandise will also be available shortly.

Yeah