And how many of you bought the DVDs and watched episode 13?
Because, yikes—I think it was the best thing I’ve ever seen from Joss Whedon. Including my favorite Firefly and Buffy episodes.
The Catmage Chronicles
Andy thought he was going crazy when a talking cat showed up at his front door. He couldn’t have been more wrong.Goldeneyes is a Catmage – a cat with human intelligence and magical abilities. Andy is an eighth grader who is smart, impulsive, and trying to avoid the school bully at all costs. A prophecy threw them together. There’s just one problem: Goldeneyes can’t stand humans.The Catmage world is heading toward war. Goldeneyes and Andy must try to stop the enemy from getting stronger. And they must save a powerful Catmage who’s been kidnapped. For Goldeneyes, it’s personal. That Catmage is her grandmother.Andy and Goldeneyes must try to put aside their differences. If they can’t, the enemy will soon be too powerful to defeat…
Epitaph One – great stuff. a real disturbing vision as to where the main show is going once it comes back… and it’s all Topher’s fault! and Felicia Day is great in everything she does (seen the Sears commercial?)
What is Dollhouse?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollhouse_%28TV_series%29
See also: List of Dollhouse episodes
Eliza Dushku plays a young woman called Echo, a member of a group of people known as “Actives” or “Dolls”. The Dolls are people whose personalities and existence in the outside world have been wiped clean so they can be imprinted with any number of new personas. Contents of an imprint may include semantic memory, muscle memory, skills, and language, as appropriate for different assignments (referred to as engagements). The new persona can be an amalgam of several real people, and the end result necessarily incorporates both strengths and flaws from the template personalities. The Actives are then hired out for particular jobs, which can be anything from crimes to fantasies to the occasional good deed. On engagements, Actives are monitored internally (and remotely) by Handlers. In between engagements they are mind-wiped into a child-like state and live in a futuristic dormitory/laboratory, a hidden facility nicknamed “The Dollhouse”. The Dollhouse is located somewhere in Los Angeles and is a subsidiary of a mysterious research group known as the Rossum Corporation.
The story follows Echo, who begins, in her mind-wiped state, to become self-aware.[6][7]
The show also focuses on the employees of the mysterious “Dollhouse,” including the manager of the Dollhouse, Adelle DeWitt (Olivia Williams), Echo’s Handler Boyd Langton (Harry Lennix), and the in-house computer scientist Topher Brink (Fran Kranz), as well as two other “Dolls” named Sierra and Victor (played by Dichen Lachman and Enver Gjokaj), who are friendly with and often seem to remember Echo. The names of Actives are simply letters in the phonetic alphabet. Although the Actives are ostensibly volunteers who work for a period of five years, the operation is highly illegal and under constant threat on one end from Paul Ballard (Tahmoh Penikett), a determined federal agent who has heard a rumor about the Dolls, and on the other end a rogue Active named “Alpha”.[7]
You know what’s really scary? That the episode was titled “Epitaph One,” implying that there are more to come. Joss does like the dystopic vision of mankind’s future, doesn’t he?
Thank you, Sabba. I really had no idea what it involved. I don’t know whether it’s even carried on a Canadian TV channel, satellite, cable or over the air.
I have been using Hulu.com to find things to watch. That way I do not have to tape or waste time watching shows with commercials. Besides, most shows are on at the most incinvenient times (besides those shows that are on Friday night – Shabbas).
*sigh* now I have to find out if they have a PAL version for Oz since I will be moving there in 18 days.
i love joss whedon’s shows, but this one just did not do anything for me :( i was expecting it though, since dushku was the star, and she in no way has the acting chops to carry out a show in which she needs a huge range of acting capabilities.