Joss is the best at causing pain to his beloved characters! It sounds interesting...

bee | March 18, 21:15 CET

I am getting very excited about this Friday night's show!

embers | March 18, 22:23 CET

Looking forward to seeing how Echo Joss takes the parameters and exceeds them. Grr, I'm ready to claw through the fabric of time to see this.

Pointy | March 18, 22:38 CET

Please remember to write meaningful headlines. Not everyone knows what MoTs is.

Simon | March 18, 22:44 CET

This is only spoilery if you don't want to know how far down the rabbit hole the show will take us - but I've inviso'd anyway.

One of the "Dollhouse" theories that has bounced around is that some of the staff members are actually actives themselves. And in a place like the Dollhouse, why bother with confidentiality agreements if you can just wipe your employees' memories? But it would be a major pitfall if more than one of the employees also was an active.

Whedon: "How many layers of unreality can you have? If we make this a lie within a lie within a lie within a lie, people are going to start slapping us. You need to have some touchstone of reality even in this world."

This is what I've been thinking - well, except for the slapping part.

Oh, and this:

And although the Dollhouse we know isn't the only one out there, don't expect to see the other Dollhouse operations playing too much of a role in the near future.

Whedon: "We didn't want to do the Wolfram and Hart gag, where we just use the same set and fill it with Italians."

Hee. "Ho fatto addormentato?" (Please note: all Italian made up.)

QuoterGal | March 18, 23:42 CET

Good thing Fox decided to air the show's (apparent) best episode against the frakking series finale of BSG. Clever!

dollrific | March 18, 23:48 CET

I've posted a new link which has spoilers from Joss' conference call. So if people are curious to know what happens next then please do go there. We can keep this thread for those don't like spoilers with their cup of tea.

Simon | March 18, 23:49 CET

It's kind of ironic that Dollhouse episode 6 is being aired against the series finale of BSG, because Joss loves BSG too. I'm sure he understands why choosing which to watch live is a hard decision in this instance.

Aviva | March 19, 02:26 CET

I'm ready to claw through the fabric of time to see this.

But, don't do that, K? There could be repercussions.

jcs | March 19, 04:39 CET

OK. I'll use my powers for good. This time.

Pointy | March 19, 05:04 CET

I really enjoyed reading this interview for two main reasons.

First, I am really intrigued by Joss' claim that from episode 6 the premise is explained more clearly but the episodes also go into getting into the inner workings of the Dollhouse - I had assumed these would be mutually exclusive.

Second, I found Joss talking about his interaction with the network interesting, and that he says Ep. 6 would not have happened without the studio's input ('It's very much the stuff they were pitching'), and that the first 5 episodes were just as much about him finding the show as the network getting onboard.

I know part of this could be Joss' ever present diplomacy (I wasn't following Joss' work during Firefly so I don't know how diplomatic or otherwise he was during the airing of Firefly as to how they were handling it) - but I still think he has made an effort to negate a lot of the rumours circulating on this site regarding 'from episode 6 is good because they let Joss do his thing!'

Bluey | March 19, 11:06 CET

That all sounds great, especially as it seems that the other reviews of the episode seem very positive.

But you do have to question the logic of putting such a potentially crucial episode (in terms of winning audience and critical opinion) up against the finale of BSG. Surely it is mainly the same audience and I can't imagine many people missing BSG

mgmn | March 19, 11:24 CET

I am so glad I live in a time zone where there will be no conflict between Dollhouse and BSG. ;)

Shey | March 19, 11:28 CET

Also just checked my on-screen guide, the final two hour BSG is airing on SciFi at least three times, on Friday. I'd think that would cover the conflict in pretty much all time zones.

Shey | March 19, 13:09 CET

I've resigned myself to be okay with BSG airing at the same time. My watching it live doesn't do anything for ratings, but downloading it from the PlayStation Store sure puts a vote for the show somewhere, in somebody's hands. Plus it's just as pretty as watching it on TV. I can wait til Saturday this once. (But just this once. Don't do it again, Fox, kay?)

dollrific | March 19, 21:17 CET