Whedonesque : Comments on 17308 : Mark Sheppard joins Dollhouse.

Whoo hoo! That just made my week! Joss is building quite a cast, my hair is starting to stand here. So can't wait.

Thank you, Simon!

Madhatter | August 16, 14:47 CET

Mark Sheppard. The guy just pops up everywhere, doesn't he? Not that I mind...

Sly | August 16, 15:06 CET

Great!

Pointy | August 16, 15:15 CET

Yay! Mark is always fun.

JadeHand | August 16, 15:20 CET

Great. He was spectacular in BSG (and not too shabby in Firefly either ;)). Can't wait for Dollhouse to actually, finally, start :).

GVH | August 16, 15:36 CET

Loved his turn on BSG. I hope he's recurring.

jcs | August 16, 15:53 CET

Confirmation from a ~~businessman with a very fine hat~~ well-known source would be nice.

Salocin | August 16, 16:06 CET

This is excellent news!

Ameer | August 16, 16:11 CET

Yay! That's just doubled my interest in the show. Mark is a member here too, if I am not mistaking.

Caroline | August 16, 16:17 CET

That's great! Love his work in Firefly and BSG. Just no dead cats, please.

palehorse | August 16, 16:37 CET

Salocin, I got the news from Mark.

gossi | August 16, 16:49 CET

Oh, that's fantastic news. Just recently enjoyed his smarmy/creepy In Plain Sight guest spot. (Which, by the way, if you aren't watching, you should be.) He really is terrific.

barest_smidgen | August 16, 16:53 CET

Badger Badger Badger Badger Badger Badger Badger Badger Badger Badger Badger Badger (Dollhouse! Dollhouse!).

Polter-Cow | August 16, 17:35 CET

Mark Sheppard is always amazing in everything he does, I have loved seeing him on BSG, Medium, Bionic Woman, and so many other things.... He was just in 'In Plain Sight' a couple of week ago! I am very excited to see him return to the Whedonverse in 'Dollhouse'!

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embers | August 16, 17:46 CET

This made my morning... he's so much fun to watch. (And my hat would be off to you, Polter-Cow, if I were wearing a hat.)

ManEnoughToAdmitIt | August 16, 17:57 CET

I loves me some Mark Sheppard, huzzah for raised anticipation!

Nolan | August 16, 18:11 CET

As I recall, he's not such a bad drummer either.

Ed R | August 16, 19:03 CET

Shiny. Maybe this time we'll get to see him play an English person, 'cause I think his accent is rather appropriate. (If you think about it, he did not play an Englishman on either Firefly or BSG).

AlanD | August 16, 19:18 CET

Thanks for that, Polter-Cow. I will now have that stuck in my head for the rest of the evening ;).

GVH | August 16, 19:41 CET

Nice to see someone from the old homestead (um, we moved a lot, and I grew up on Muir, Dyton, Caprica and Aerlon.)

And yes, "BadgerBadger" is such a fine, fine earworm, Polter-Cow, that I'm forever in your debt.

QuoterGal | August 16, 19:55 CET

Every single time I think there is no way I can get more excited than I already was, every single time I think there's no way the cast and crew for this show can get any cooler, Joss pulls a stunt like this.

It's why I love him.

Excellent news!

Lirazel | August 16, 20:20 CET

I'm still waiting to find out when Jonathan Woodward is going to show up on Dollhouse and get killed.

rufustfyrfly | August 16, 20:41 CET

Very good news!

feigenbaum7 | August 16, 21:04 CET

Oh, I LOVE IT! I think that's the first time I've ever seen the badger badger thing, although I've known for a long time there was something more to badger badger than just, you know, badgers. :D

cabri | August 16, 21:08 CET

He is wicked, loved him in Firefly. Couldn't quite get over how bad his Irish accent was in BSG, but he was still good.

flugufrelsarinn | August 16, 21:28 CET

I'm still waiting to find out when Jonathan Woodward is going to show up on Dollhouse and get killed.

rufustfyrfly, that is my big Dollhouse question: how will Joss kill JMW this time? I nominate some terrible, painful disease. Or falling off of a tall building. Or a toilet seat from a falling space station hitting his head. Something we haven't seen him experience before.

Lirazel | August 16, 22:16 CET

Yep, he's a wicked, evil character in all Apocalypseseses..damnit, I hate that!

Madhatter | August 16, 22:23 CET

You are evil Polter-Cow... So very evil... I'm gonna have that loop stuck in my head for hours now. Grrrrr... :P

In related news... Yay! :D

And also concerning the killing of Jonathan Woodward, let's go for a classic. I'm gonna have to say anvil.

[ edited by Djungelurban on 2008-08-17 00:01 ]

Djungelurban | August 16, 23:58 CET

Ooh! Anvil! I like that idea!

Lirazel | August 17, 00:12 CET

Too cool.

dispatch | August 17, 00:16 CET

Mark's posted on the Sci-fi.com forums saying he starts shootin' Monday, which puts him in episode 3 (and onwards?).

[ edited by gossi on 2008-08-17 01:49 ]

gossi | August 17, 01:48 CET

Yay!! Just when I think I can't get any more excited about 'Dollhouse' I hear this great news!! I loved him on Firefly but he was fantastic on BSG. And, frankly, he was the best thing about 'Bionic Woman' too! Too bad there wasn't more of him in that, it might have lasted longer!

Firefly Flanatic | August 17, 01:51 CET

Mushrooming with joy! Make no mis-snake about it. (~~Badger~~, er, blame Polter-Cow for the onslaught of bad puns.)

I loved Mark on Firefly; I haven't seen him in anything else but am sure that he delivers on the awesomeness. Ooh, mebbe this means that Echo gets to be British? After all, didn't Mark help Summer with the accent? *spins around room in joy; ignores stubbed toe*

As for JMW, I'm thinking...tank of pirhanas. Or a deadly octopus. Decapitation by Goblin Glider? No?

BandofBuggered | August 17, 02:21 CET

Huzzah! More Mark Sheppard is always a good thing.

And I think Johnathan Woodward should be killed by a family of angry badgers. (Pirhanas and octopi are so last year.) Badgers, though? No one will see it coming.

erendis | August 17, 03:06 CET

YAY! Perhaps he will have a very fine hat ;)

I can't wait for this show!

CloudyVisions | August 17, 03:12 CET

For JMW's inevitable deaths How about a killer teddy bears? No one will ever see it coming. Followed by a miracle resurrection. But that resurrection would be short-lived however, he will be killed by a group of howling mushrooms. Yes, howling mushrooms. They are terrible. :D

crazygolfa | August 17, 03:15 CET

Mark's appearances on Medium have all been brilliant. Creepy creepy creepy.

TamaraC | August 17, 03:44 CET

Ah, pihranas and octopi are so 1960s, IMO.

Evil killer teddy bears? Reminds me of a Robot Chicken episode that had a sketch with Cabbage Patch dolls as the premise for season 8 of BtVS. (The episode is in S1 and is called "Plastic Buffet.")

We could just cover JMW with tazmanian devil fetuses (feces? ;) and let momma go to work.

Or we could go back to the classics. After all, NOBODY expects the Spanish Inquisition!

BandofBuggered | August 17, 04:28 CET

Yes--loved him in Firefly and loved him in BSG. Awesome.

And yeah, JMW should show up, be generally charming and likable and disarming and then be pretty evil (or at least very self-centred) and be killed by a "good guy" main cast member.

WilliamTheB | August 17, 05:12 CET

Badger! Yay! :)

How about a killer teddy bears?

I think there's supposed to be one of those on Supernatural next season.

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Braeden Fireheart | August 17, 06:17 CET

Frakkin' great news.

UnpluggedCrazy | August 17, 07:17 CET

JMW death? I imagine one night that his liver will sneek out of his body and smother him in his sleep. Possibly with onions.

AlanD | August 17, 07:36 CET

I think there's supposed to be one of those on Supernatural next season.

Wouldn't surprise me, Braeden Fireheart. That definitely sounds like something Ben Edlund would come up with.

Lirazel | August 17, 07:40 CET

I think he should play someone who eats mushrooms and is afraid of snakes :)

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Shapenew | August 17, 08:15 CET

AlanD, I think you have it.

TamaraC | August 17, 08:32 CET

Good news!

How can we confirm this?

[ edited by Nebula1400 on 2008-08-17 14:47 ]

Nebula1400 | August 17, 14:45 CET

Nebula1400, gossi says he got this from Mark Sheppard directly. I'll take gossi's word for it :)

Shapenew | August 17, 16:19 CET

Nice!

Nebula1400 | August 17, 19:31 CET

Plus, as it's already been linked to in this thread, Sheppard himself confirmed it on a message board.

UnpluggedCrazy | August 17, 19:32 CET

Sorry for the lack of observiness. I'm on vacation in the middle of nowhere, where I have to sit in my car outside a building to get an internet signal. I can't plug my laptop in, so I have limited battery time, thus I am doing everything online in haste. I appreciate people reiterating previously posted info for me!

Nebula1400 | August 18, 15:17 CET

Yay, Mark Sheppard! I do enjoy him on my television set.

Re JMW death, I think the classic (other than an anvil) would be a piano falling on him. He could be a pianist so that would make it ironic, too! ;)

samatwitch | August 18, 22:07 CET

Yay! I'm very excited for Mark! :D

Oo! Re: The death of JMW, what if Echo was assigned to kill him, and she ends up using a piano? Could be funny...

korkster | August 18, 22:34 CET

Oh man - you know you haven't watched enough Firefly lately when you think "Another BSG actor!" and it's not immediately followed by (or even preceded by) "Badger in Dollhouse!"

ShamelessSingingRennie | August 19, 22:18 CET

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