Buzzfeed has a ton of links about a new tv series from Joss Whedon - Dollhouse. I am positively salivating in anticipation. The premise of the series is tantalizing, from nymag:
Dollhouse stars Buffy’s Eliza Dushku as Echo, a woman who is programmed to be a fantasy-for-hire in a supersecret, illegal facility known as the Dollhouse. Echo is programmed to forget between fantasies, but she starts to remember and become self-aware as the show gets under way.
I am unashamedly a fan of Buffy and Angel. I used to follow every episode when it was shown on Channel 5 until my National Service days when it became almost impossible because there was only 1 tv in camp, and everyone else wanted to watch Chinese sitcoms and just couldn’t understand the attraction of a girl, albeit a hot one, killing vampires. Thankfully, when I was in university, there was a period that Star World did a run of all the seasons for both Buffy and Angel with daily episodes.
The thing I loved about Joss Whedon is the way his writing is sprinkled with pop cultural references and almost every episode has at least a scene which is a homage to something. You also never know what you might get with each episode in term of filming stylistics. Like the movies of Woody Allen, each episode rewards you when you watch reruns; the writing rewards you for getting smarter and more exposed to our world and its history.
Another thing, the characters in TV shows done by Joss Whedon actually grow as the seasons progress - like Willow who grew to become a powerful witch, Xandar who matured from the clown in season 1 and Watcher Wesley who has probably one of the most interesting character arcs in television history - they aren’t stuck in some time-warp-time-frozen caricature.
This series stars Eliza Dushku. While I love Buffy, I always thought Faith was a more interesting slayer and way hotter - something about the fun spunky damaged self-hating middle-finger-to-authority ‘bad’ girl with a bitter grudge against the world who tries to do good in her own way but just seems to make all the wrong choices. She made the series Tru Calling actually bearable to watch. She also starred in what is probably the greatest cheerleading movie I have ever and will ever watch - Bring It On.
Below is more faith we could do with:
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