Whedon interview on Dollhouse I hadn't heard before
So I found this in my random internet wanderings:
"[Dollhouse] became just a scoach too whore-y. Never had a better meeting, everything was great, then they [FOX] said "so they're kinda like prostitutes and that's not ok" Word came down that it wasn't ok. I wanted to make a show that's about feeling bad about feeling good or good about feeling bad. Fantasy is just that, fantasy. FOX wanted to back away from these implications. Every episode [of the first season] is ridiculously hard, because the central core has been ripped out just enough, that we're constantly dancing around our own premise."
I think that's actually very astute. I like the show overall, but my one problem is that they never really addressed some of the problems and implications of the entire concept. And it sounds like FOX balked, but because they couldn't really change the entire concept they just backed off certain parts and that left it kind of watered down. I'm not saying it's all the network's fault or anything, but that would be hard, I'd think, as a writer to deal with. But everyone seems to be more on the same page now, and everything I've heard about the second season sounds so promising. I'm really looking forward to the season premier tonight.
"[Dollhouse] became just a scoach too whore-y. Never had a better meeting, everything was great, then they [FOX] said "so they're kinda like prostitutes and that's not ok" Word came down that it wasn't ok. I wanted to make a show that's about feeling bad about feeling good or good about feeling bad. Fantasy is just that, fantasy. FOX wanted to back away from these implications. Every episode [of the first season] is ridiculously hard, because the central core has been ripped out just enough, that we're constantly dancing around our own premise."
I think that's actually very astute. I like the show overall, but my one problem is that they never really addressed some of the problems and implications of the entire concept. And it sounds like FOX balked, but because they couldn't really change the entire concept they just backed off certain parts and that left it kind of watered down. I'm not saying it's all the network's fault or anything, but that would be hard, I'd think, as a writer to deal with. But everyone seems to be more on the same page now, and everything I've heard about the second season sounds so promising. I'm really looking forward to the season premier tonight.