Mother. Fucking. DOLLHOUSE.

[gwahir]

Yes, it's Joss Whedon's new show. Yes, it's premiering this Friday night.

Yes, it's on Fox.

First things first: what's it about? It's about an agency that employs "actives", or "Dolls", to do all sorts of missions -- from humanitarian to sordid -- and uses them all as identity-less blank slates. They are implanted with personalities and abilities unique to each mission and after every one their memories are wiped. Echo, played by Eliza Dushku, begins to remember.

It's about identity. It's about people, it's about who we are, and what it is to be a person.

Also, there's cool stuff with guns and things.

I want to get this out of the way

Now, if you've heard about Dollhouse, you've probably heard about all that shit about Fox screwing them around. Ignore this. Ignore the pessimistic drivel you hear about "death slots" and production halts being bad omens. Joss is happy with the timeslot, and he's written many times that the network calling him out on his original pilot was a good move that has resulted in a better first episode. (Besides, even if I'm wrong and they are bad omens, what use is going around saying they are? All you'd do is put people off and inhibit your own enjoyment of the show, if you were going to have any.)

I'm completely and utterly psyched about this show. It's about time television's king of character storytelling returned to the small screen, and, man, TV wants him back.

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