Is this the same thing I posted a minute after you, just from a different source? That'd solve a mystery for me.

sumogrip | September 17, 22:09 CET

Yes it is. I'm going to add your link to this one to keep all the coverage together.

Simon | September 17, 22:11 CET

My favorite bit? “I want to know what post-apocalyptic future was caused by Two and a Half Men.”

Also, it was nice to to know about the ties for Ray's and Summer's characters.

[ edited by Numfar PTB on 2009-09-17 22:45 ]

Numfar PTB | September 17, 22:45 CET

You can't go wrong with a Joss interview. Someone needs to collect all the major ones together in a book.

Simon | September 17, 22:56 CET

My comments are all in reference to the www.sfuniverse.com article:

"... the base doesn’t have to be as broad for the studio to decide to eek out another season."

"eek out" - gotta be one of the most apt transcription spelling errors ever.

; >

And this from Joss was sweetly funny or funnily sweet, whichever you prefer:

"I love each and everyone of you very much, possibly inappropriately."

Finally:

"Joss Whedon sounds like he’s realized his mistake from last season, which was not listening to his own instincts and always doing what his heart said was best."

Yeah, I dunno if Joss' having to deal w/ notes from studio execs who are essentially his bosses and who thought the show was supposed to be a certain thing, when he intended it to be another and clearly superior thing was Joss' mistake, exactly - though we're not privy to the sequence of events, nor those notes, this has been spun a number of different ways.

But regardless of the different opinions about how the first few shows ended up kinda flat and impoverished, as always my money is on Joss for knowing the best way to make his shows. Seriousfully.

Looking forward to this season with much anticipation and my "nurturing and intense" fannish attention. ; >

QuoterGal | September 18, 00:42 CET

I agree with QG on trusting Joss. This isn't just blind adoration either. I absolutely loved the unaided pilot (Joss's 1st instinct on how to begin the series), so I'm certain that increasing his creative lattitude will strengthen the show's quality.

SteveP | September 18, 01:41 CET

io9.com has some very good coverage so I've added that to the entry.

Simon | September 18, 02:11 CET

I hope the DC Dollhouse has the cleverer programmer. Partially because I want to watch Topher deal with that but also because I want to watch Summer Glau be brilliant.

Sunfire | September 18, 02:18 CET

Summer can kill Topher with her brain.

SteveP | September 18, 02:31 CET

COMING THIS SUMMER WINTER...

Bennett programs everyone to beat up everyone else.

Sunfire | September 18, 02:39 CET

I think it's interesting that what they're thinking about now re: the future storyline is going back to it at the end of this thirteen episodes. Originally, I had assumed that was going to be the plan all along, season-capping "epitaph" episodes (One, Two, Three, et cetera).

The One True b!X | September 18, 06:10 CET

I hope they do, but I imagine it would be hard to do Epitaph Two when One never aired. But I guess if Dollhouse does well enough to get to episode 13, maybe Fox will air the first one, since it doesn't (I assume) feel out of place wherever it ends up...

I dunno. Just seems more difficult to pull off than the occasional flash to the future in an episode. But maybe not, I guess they could make it as standalone as the first one.

sumogrip | September 18, 06:23 CET

You can't go wrong with a Joss interview. Someone needs to collect all the major ones together in a book.

You type truth. I love Joss interviews and would most definitely buy the book.

Emmie | September 18, 06:46 CET

Wait, new intro sequence? Did I just read that?

That's huge.

wiesengrund | September 18, 09:39 CET

Yeah I'm excited to see the new intro as well. It used to be one of my favourite things about a new season of Btvs and Ats.

vampmogs | September 18, 10:25 CET

Been checking some of the new shows, and the lack of a proper opening sequence always depresses me.
I was so glad while watching the premiere of Dollhouse that the tradition of a great opening sequence was kept. Glad we're getting a update in the new season, it was always great to see the changes from the opening sequences from season to season in Buffy and Angel, and it's just sad that Firefly never got the chance to have that.

Numfar PTB | September 18, 10:29 CET

I hope the new intro includes other cast members. I never liked the Eliza-only intro of S1, and if S2's eps will focus more on the full ensemble then it'd be good for the intro to reflect that.

SteveP | September 18, 10:38 CET

*sigh* i love Joss quotes.... enough said.

kristen / my real name | September 18, 10:38 CET

Another link for the coverage. This is from TV Guide Magazine: http://www.tvguidemagazine.com/news/dollhouse-boss-breaks-good-horrible-news-2414.html

Numfar PTB | September 18, 11:21 CET

I saw the "highlights from" and thought it couldn't be to much information, even for a spoiler-phobe like me.

Turned out there were a couple of things I'd rather not have known in advance (like Summer and Ray Wise's specific roles). So it's back to "no spoiler tagged reading" for me.

As for the other links, I'll wait and check them out, at some point well into the season.
A Joss interview is just so hard to resist, he's always so entertaining (cue chorus of "duuh") :).

Shey | September 18, 12:32 CET

Bold claim.

Still, I like how we're being told ahead of time that she's going to be eccentric. That will certainly be a huge change of the pace from the normal, down-to-earth characters we're used to seeing her play.

azzers | September 19, 07:49 CET

The first link appears to be having a problem, I am getting blocked for security reasons on two different computers.....

Riverine | September 20, 02:51 CET