Are you creep out by the raunchy marketing for the creative thinker - striver - hawking show Dollhouse ? Then creator Joss Whedon is very , very happy . Whedon explained his show ’s take on the skin business deal , in a call with reporters .
Dollhouse is about a company that hires out citizenry who can be programmed to have any personality or skillset , and these “ active ” are clean slates when they ’re not being used by a well - heeled client or pro - bono case . One of these “ active ” is Echo , played by Eliza Dushku . The show launches on Friday , Feb. 13 , along with the midseason premiere of Terminator : The Sarah Connor Chronicles .
The show has been releasing a never - stop stream of sexy photos of star Eliza Dushku in various state of undress for week now , and a raw flood of Eliza porn came out yesterday . ( See below , but some picture gallery image are borderline NSFW . ) One telephoner asked Joss how he find about the live au naturel Dushku marketing , and he order he was okay with it . Mostly because Eliza was okay with it , and Eliza is very comfortable with her trunk . Joss was there for the photoshoot .
And the merchandising reflects the fact that sexuality is woven into the cloth of the show — and it go to some very creepy position on function . The show is about man and women being brainwash and engage out , and some of their assigments have to do with sex , says Whedon . The show goes into some situations that make Whedon himself intensely uncomfortable , even if they do n’t bother any of the show ’s other writers .
Dushku was inexorable that whatever TV show she made next should address gender , “ not just by merit of being all blistering , but by talking about sexuality : why it drive us and how it work . ” One of the show ’s finish is to “ get the audience to necessitate what of their desire is acceptable , and what is creepy . In rescript to ask that we had to go to kind of a creepy station , ” says Whedon . “ We may have crossed the line . ”
The show emphatically does the standard precious - babe - in - a - live - outfit come - on , but then it also vitiate and examines that thought . But Whedon was quick to tot up that it ’s not so wry that it let him off the sweetener . His only rattling Brobdingnagian disagreement with Fox over the growth of the show was how much to distribute with yield of sexuality in the show ’s human - traffic linguistic context . The internet , as always , would have prefer to have tease the audience with sexy images and perhaps pay brim - divine service to deeper questions , but did n’t really want to go any deeper . But Whedon insist that the show should n’t , “ by virtue of spiel it safe , become offensive . ”
Where ’s the army of super - ninja ?
I had to inquire precisely how far this show ’s engineering unfold . If anybody can be imprint with any personality and skillset , are there dozens of mass cuckold around L.A. who are experience a lie ? Also , could I nobble a hundred masses , stop up them into the machine , and have an army of fast super - ninjas an hour later on ?
Whedon said the show wo n’t be addressing those issues in the first season , but will hopefully get to them later . “ What you may carry out , and what you may destroy , with this engineering is something wer’e going to be necessitate more and more toward th remnant of the season , ” Whedon say . “ But for this first time of year , we did keep this premise fairly simple , and the Dollhouse is fairly rigorous about what they ’ll allow this technology to be used for . No ninja armies just yet . ”
The philosophy of Dollhouse
It ’s almost a foregone conclusion that someone will be doing a book on The Philosophy of Dollhouse — I think similar Book already be for Whedon ’s early shows Buffy and Firefly , and when they do , they may need to look at a transcript of today ’s group discussion call . Whedon geeked out a slew about the philosophical underpinnings of his show . ( We alreadyasked himabout nature versus nurture at Comic Con . )
https://gizmodo.com/exclusive-joss-whedon-tackles-darwin-5031309
Today , Whedon peach more about the melodic theme that people ’s identities are already becoming more customizeable , thanks to the Internet and “ inordinately specific medications . ” This is something that was n’t really true even a decade ago , and it gives you new ways to talk about very older inquiry . “ Who am I ? What am I as I get older , and what ’s really stand by ? What ’s the part I can point to and say , ‘ This is me , ’ and wha’ts just coming and break down ? And what has been imposed on me ? Who the hell am i ? Why are n’t I prettier ? ” But also , what do masses expect from each other , and how do we expend each other ?
Joss sort of gave a miniskirt - seminar about “ identicalness and objectification ” in response to a few different diarist ’ questions . If you were n’t already pumped for Dollhouse , you ’d at least have realized this is very much a show about idea .
Oh and speaking of victimization , this Grindhouse - style promo chafe me at first , but now it ’s growing on me :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhpmKSMphfw
What changed in the battle with the web ?
Whedon also talked about his process of developing the show with the mesh , include some of the stuff he ’d said before about add more high - stake suspense and action stuff — which he feel add to the show . And he reiterated that it ’s still essentially the show he wanted to make . But he also added more details about the via media he reached with the meshwork .
For example , the first several episode of the show will be entirely stand - alone episode with no long - term plot developments . He referred to the first seven episode as “ the seven pilot film , ” signify you could watch any one of them without require to have seen the show before . The first five episodes , in particular , take great care to reintroduce the type and the storyline , with some onward motion from episode to instalment . Pretty much every episode will have the same social structure : Echo gets program to be a newfangled mortal and goes off on an assignment , with complication that finally get resolve at the conclusion of the installment . It was tough for the show ’s writers to get that jazzed about a show that resets every week , with no longer floor electric discharge at first , but then they arrive near at it .
Also , the Most grievous Game episode ( co - starring Matt Keeslar ) was originally run short to be episode five or six , but the web heard “ bow down - hunting ” and want it to be the show ’s 2nd episode . And some people have asked why it was n’t the show ’s pilot , because it ’s so great .
https://gizmodo.com/check-out-the-middlemans-visit-to-the-dollhouse-5144154
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leiCQvQu1gc
He pointed out that all of his shows have had a difficult pregnancy process : Buffy was held until midseason , and was reshooting parts of its first episode during the cinematography of its season - one finale . Angel was in the beginning much too dark for the WB , and the producers had to rethink their original vision completely . ( David Fury ’s original unfilmed Angel script , “ corrupted , ” is well deserving reading , and a link to download it ishere . )
The Friday Nox timeslot :
Of naturally , people take Joss how he felt about having his show stuck on Fridays , and he sounded genuinely upbeat . The locating gives Dollhouse a hazard to build an consultation over clip , insteadiof have the tremendous opening - night atmospheric pressure that would have come on other nights . Whedon seems to have decided that his shows always acquire over watcher over time , and that they often take a while to discover their hearing and become addictive reckon . He wants it to get plenty of attention justly away , but not so much that it burn out under the spotlight . ”
Some pocket-sized spoilers :
Whedon also cite a few minor spoiler for the first season . In particular , episode six is told from the point of scene of a random bystander on the street who gets drawn into the Dollhouse ’s world . Other episodes tell the write up of one of Echo ’s naming from Echo ’s point of view , or the guest ’s , or the point of perspective of another “ Active . ”
One of the big thread , even in the early standalone episodes , will be Echo ’s nascent horse sense of identity , and her developing friendly relationship with her fellow “ alive , ” Sierra .
Meanwhile , Agent Paul Ballard ( Tahmoh Penikett ) will mostly be five tone behind in his quest to get answers about the Dollhouse , but will run into it in unexpected ways from time to time . And he ’s not going to be “ the reporter in The Incredible Hulk , ” always too late to teach anything . He ’ll be pick up more clew over prison term .
There ’s a “ creepy naked bozo ” at the end of the first episode , and we ’ll get answer about how he fits in fairly early on .
The show “ becomes a bit complicated ” after the first seven episodes . By then , we ’ll have a vindicated delineation of how lost the Actives are , with very little power to allot with the outside world . Starting around the center of the time of year , everybody gets put through the wringer .
Other random stuff :
The show is n’t inherently as silly as Buffy or Angel , because it ’s not overturn an conventional writing style , and with this concept it would be leisurely to go too camp , says Whedon . “ This has to be more grounded . ”
The show had a couple of really interesting hand that did n’t make it into the first season . One was about the boy soldiers of Rwanda , counterpoint tangible - life programming of mass with the Dollhouse ’s fictional version . And another was a weird and powerful story about sexual perversion and shame , and masses ’s unfitness to manage with other masses , which did n’t quite make the cutting this clock time around .
There are some new challenges to doing a show nowadays : there are six commercial-grade breaks instead of four , and the “ remote - gratis viewing ” feature means each episode is 15 - 20 pct longer with the same amount of time for film .
Someone demand who would win in a fight : Faith or Echo ? Whedon say Faith would win , unless Echo had been programmed with Faith ’s personality and science . In that case , it would be a hook .
There will be more Dr. ugly webisodes at some full point , but everybody ’s rottenly busy . Likewise , Whedon ’s thought about doing more Serenity comics , and is already thinking about a “ season nine ” of the Buffy comic strip . There might even be some comics tie - Immigration and Naturalization Service with his revulsion movie Cabin In The Woods . But he reiterated that there will be no Dollhouse comics , because the show does n’t impart itself to the comics descriptor .
Dollhouse promo picture show fromFused Film .
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