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Things don´t look good for Dollhouse… and everything is pointing towards Dollhouse being cancelled…
Dollhouse is an American science fiction television series created by writer-director Joss Whedon under Mutant Enemy Productions. The show premiered on February 13, 2009 on the Fox network. Episodes of Dollhouse are about six minutes longer than standard one-hour dramas on Fox television, as the show airs with half as many commercial advertising slots.
What is Dollhouse About? – Plot
Eliza Dushku plays a young woman called Echo, a member of a group of people known as “Actives” or “Dolls”. The Dolls are people whose personalities and existence in the outside world have been wiped clean so they can be imprinted with any number of new personas – including memory, muscle memory, skills, and language – for different assignments (referred to as engagements). The new persona is an amalgam of several real people, and the end result necessarily incorporates both strengths and flaws from the template personalities. The Actives are then hired out for particular jobs, which can be anything from crimes to fantasies to the occasional good deed. On engagements, Actives are monitored internally (and remotely) by Handlers. In between engagements they are mind-wiped into a child-like state and live in a futuristic dormitory/laboratory, a hidden facility nicknamed “The Dollhouse”. The Dollhouse is located somewhere in Los Angeles and is a subsidiary of a mysterious research group known as the Rossum Corporation.
The story follows Echo, who begins, in her mind-wiped state, to become self-aware.
The show also focuses on the employees of the mysterious “Dollhouse” and two other “Dolls”, Sierra and Victor (played by Dichen Lachman and Enver Gjokaj), who are friendly with Echo. The names of Actives are simply letters in the phonetic alphabet. Although the Actives are ostensibly volunteers who work for a period of five years, the operation is highly illegal and under constant threat on one end from Paul Ballard (Tahmoh Penikett), a determined federal agent who has heard a rumor about the Dolls, and a rogue Active, “Alpha”, on the other.
Maybe viewers can Save Chuck, but they are not likely saving Dollhouse.
Are you upset about Dollhouse cancelled news?
You can also give Eliza Dushku some love and give Dollhouse your support.
As a big Joss Whedon fan, of course I’m upset. This guy just keeps getting screwed. What do you expect when you debut a deep show about imprinting personalities on actives on a Friday night? Why don’t they just air the show on a Sunday morning? Firefly and Angel were both canceled prematurely and I haven’t met a single person yet who isn’t singing the praises of both of those shows. Fox just doesnt know how to manage shows. I’d seriously like to know how many of their shows they cancel every year.
I know Angel wasn’t on Fox I just wanted to illustrate how Joss always ends up on the short end of the stick.
We love Whedon man! Can´t get enough
Well I am pretty sure Fox owned the WB didn’t they? Buffy and Angel were on that, and Whedon was screwed over on those too.
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