Short Nerd Chief

Joss Whedon’s coming back to TV and back to Fox with a show called Dollhouse, which frankly doesn’t sound all that exciting when you read about it:

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.

I’m reminded a bit of Dark Angel, another “hot chick kicks butt while trying to figure out who she really is” series, notable mostly for releasing Jessica Alba into the wild. And the whole “burgeoning awareness leads to danger in the field” angle was adequately explore in the Jason Bourne movies.  Nevertheless, we all know what Whedon’s capable of, and Fox really needs a new hit.  Maybe it can be what I hoped the new Bionic Woman series might be, even if it can’t live up to the standards he set with Buffy and Firefly (and his post-TV comics work).

via BB Gadgets