You're Killing Me, Joss!
Whedon's new Fox series, called Dollhouse, stars Miss Eliza Dushku, best known
as Faith to you Buffy the Vampire Slayer fans. And this show isn't just a pilot.
It's already been given a seven-episode commitment by Fox. Woo!
Here's how
Fox describes the series:
Echo (Eliza Dushku) [is] a young woman who is
literally everybody's fantasy. She is one of a group of men and women who can be
imprinted with personality packages, including memories, skills, language—even
muscle memory—for different assignments. The assignments can be romantic,
adventurous, outlandish, uplifting, sexual and/or very illegal. When not
imprinted with a personality package, Echo and the others are basically
mind-wiped, living like children in a futuristic dorm/lab dubbed the Dollhouse,
with no memory of their assignments—or of much else. The show revolves around
the childlike Echo's burgeoning self-awareness, and her desire to know who she
was before, a desire that begins to seep into her various imprinted
personalities and puts her in danger both in the field and in the closely
monitored confines of the Dollhouse.
I am freaking out. Not only does it sound like a wonderful premise, but
it brings Eliza back (who really started showing her colors as Faith just when
they pulled the plug on the character for awhile on Buffy and it took until the
last season – and nearly through it, too! – to bring her back). I’m also
happy because it means the Faith spin-off might be dead but Joss and the
Buffyverse, in its own way, live on.
It’s also just one kickass
premise, don’t you think? It’s tickling the back of my mind in terms of
something I swear I’ve seen covered similarly in a comic before, but it’s really
ok. It’s going to play out on television very well.
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