The Return of the Great Whedon

#1 Yay! Joss is returning to Television and away from comics, because alas, he writes comics a whole lot worse than he writes tv. He writes tv like the demi-god he is *swoons into fangrrl apoplexy*.

#2 Yay! Eliza Dushku will be starring in this new tv show. She is awesome, she is in fact made of awesome and she will be our new heroine.

That being said... I'm not keen on the description of the show, the name of the show which reminded me of this and the name of Eliza's character Echo - which rang the Greek Tragedy Bell in my head, about the mythic Echo.

FOX network's description of the show found at E! Online is thus:

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.

Um, yeah.
This does not sound like what my icon is saying.
So with all the above in mind, is this show going to be kickass, or is my Joss Love going to be seeping out of me slowly if there isn't going to be a redeeming thing in this show.

I hate to be a party pooper, but when a place is described as a Dollhouse, with a character named Echo in which she gains self-awareness... the woman is described as nothing but an object for someone else's desires and these missions... are they secret agents, al a modern day Mata Hari's or are they Whore for Hire.
*sigh* conflicting feelings regarding Joss and this description, and often even if the description is an exaggeration... it isn't too far from the truth.

Anywho, other places to read about this new show: TVweek and TVguide and Feminist SF, where you can find the Frank Miller Test which should tell us if this show is what I hope it isn't. It's still Joss and I'm willing to give it the benefit of the doubt.

ETA: An article in Hebrew Welcome to the Dollhouse - ברוכים הבאים לבית הבובות.

In addition, the genocide in Darfur must be stopped.

וכמו כן, צריך לעצור את רצח העם בדרפור.