doll’s house will be about “ identity operator , self - determination ” and the fact that “ free will is both a blessing and a pain in the ass , ” says Lord Joss Whedon , who helped overturn scientific discipline fiction with his place western Firefly . Also important strand in the show : Joss ’ view that Data from Star Trek : The Next Generation “ is a heavy TV character , ” and the heat of star Eliza Dushku . Joss spilled oodles of detail on the Dollhouse airplane pilot , plus the first script review just pop out up online . spoiler , as they say , forward .
Joss tell E ! Online ’s Kristin Dos Santos that the Fox show ’s pilot is called “ Echo , ” which also happens to be the name of Dushku ’s character . articulate Joss :
Echo is a young cleaning woman who is literally everybody ’s phantasy . She is one of a mathematical group of men and women who can be imprint with personality packages , including retentivity , skill , terminology — even brawniness storage — for different assignments . The assignment can be romantic , adventurous , outlandish , uplifting , intimate and/or very illegal . When not imprint with a personality package , Echo and the others are basically brain - wiped , live like child in a futuristic dorm / laboratory dubbed the Dollhouse , with no computer memory of their assignments — or of much else . The show orb around the childlike Echo ’s burgeoning self - cognizance , and her desire to know who she was before , a desire that begins to ooze into her various imprinted personalities and order her in risk both in the field and in the intimately monitored confines of the Dollhouse .
Joss also describes Dollhouse as , “ The Bourne Identity meet Stepford Wives meets boarding school meets Los Angeles neo - noir encounter the Whedonverse . ” But Echo is much more ego - aware than the character Dushku played on Whedon ’s Buffy , despite being judgement - wipe a lot of the clock time . “ In the first episode , we are shown that Echo is essentially like the Scarecrow from The Wizard of Oz — ‘ If I only had a brain … ’ — but she ’s otherwise full fit with a mortal , a rockin ’ bod , and a good , fearless heart . ”
Joss also run out more details about the supporting hurl :
Olivia Williams is Adelle Dewitt , a “ Frigidaire administratrix ” who runs the Dollhouse . She has rarefied moments of human empathy that make you inquire if she ’s not on the Q.T. a good cat .
Tamikoh Penikett plays FBI federal agent Paul Ballard , who ’s haunt with hatchway up the Dollhouse , but “ he may have more in common with — and already be closer to — the Dolls than he even do it . ” And Paul may have a red-hot Latinian language with Echo .
The Doll mechanic , Topher ( sort of like the nerd who controlled Michelle Ryan in Bionic Woman , but more evil ) may finish up throw a relationship with another skirt , Sierra ( Dichen Lachman ) .
And the show ’s “ Xander ” may be Victor ( Enver Gjokaj ) .
Then there ’s Dr. Claire Saunders , who has seeable facial scars from a razor - blade plan of attack , plus a cooperative , calm personality .
Meanwhile , Televisionary has a full review of the Dollhouse pilot film script , which is full of “ morally grizzly characters ” engaged in the most queasy human trafficking imaginable . The Dollhouse has a mightiness structure that ’s perpetually in flux , and the piazza itself is “ not a draconian prison nor an icy SD-6 - type operations hub ; rather it ’s more like a serene , Japanese - influenced , high - technical school spa for the Actives . ” Topher , Claire and Adelle are engaged in a in high spirits - stake plot of “ human chess , ” with the dolls as pieces .
We get to see Dushku ’s Echo take on no fewer than five indistinguishability in the pilot sequence alone . And we see her starting to remember thing from her assignments , thing which were supposed to have been wiped from her memory . There ’s also a huge backstory , refer to as “ Alpha , ” that gets set in motility in the original . [ E ! OnlineandTelevisionary , viaWhedonesque ]
Eliza Dushku image by WENN .
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