Dollverse

Prepare for December’s Rossum implosion

gossi — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:48:52 +0000

Fans paying attention will know that long before season two started airing, Sen. Daniel Perrin – the man investigating Dollhouse owners Rossum Corporation – set up his own Twitter account and website.

Goodies you will have missed include this newspaper article.

Yesterday he linked to a statement by Rossum Corporation about their upcoming investigation by the senate – visible on Rossum’s website. Rossum state the investigation is scheduled to begin in December – when the show returns. Yesterday Senator Perrin claimed he has proof about Rossum’s illegal activities.

Today things got even more complicated – after Dollhouse viewers started phoning Rossum’s phone number, they received calls back from people telling them to “ditch the tech”. Which an eagle eyed Whedonesque poster noticed links to the website Ditch The Tech. Yet more fans have noticed that website source code references “Wipe The Future”…

Clearing up some bullshit about Dollhouse being cancelled

gossi — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 05:12:23 +0000

I’ve noticed a bunch of TV ratings blogs and comments popping up on Twitter and here about the show being cancelled.

Well – it is not cancelled.

FOX took it off air during sweeps as they wanted to jack up their ratings so they met their advertising viewer level commitments from the upfronts. It’s that simple.

The show returns in December. If FOX didn’t want the show on air, why on earth would they bring it back? Why not just keep airing repeats of other shows in its place if they got a bigger audience?

Last season, we had to sit through a variety of different articles pronouncing the show dead. In fact, those articles started before it even shot its first episode. Well, into the early hours of this morning Dollhouse was shooting its 10th episode of season two – the last episode to air before Christmas. I remember months ago, one big site said the show was “99.9%” not coming back for season two. Several days later, it got picked up a second season.

The big secret the network is sadly keeping from everybody right now is the episodes in December are pretty big ‘event TV’ episodes. Week 1, you’re going to go so far down the Rossum Corporation hole you’re going to get punched in the face by Summer Glau. Week 2, you’re going to get your face horrifically messed up by Alpha. Week 3, you’re going to learn more the Dolls and the Dollhouse than you could imagine. It ends on an episode written and directed by the folks behind Epitaph One and Belonging – generally considered the two best episodes of the series to date – and it’s hilariously messed up.

Oh, and then the show is back in January with an episode written and directed by Tim Minear of ‘Omega’ and ‘Belle Chose’ fame – two other fan favourite episodes.

So, you know. People keep saying Dollhouse is dead. And they just keep being so very wrong.

You know what is going to end? Society. The world. And Dollhouse is going to show you how that happens, and who causes it piece by piece.

Dollhouse season two off air in UK until New Year

gossi — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:08:39 +0000

The Sci-Fi press office has let Dollverse know the show will be off air after Tuesdays episode (Belonging, season 2 episode 4) until the New Year.

Season two will be continuing as two-hour events each Friday in the USA from 8/7c on FOX during December. Three of those events will happen, then show will return for 3 additional new episodes during January 2010.

Discuss DOLLHOUSE Season 2 Episode 4 – Belonging

gossi — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 03:56:09 +0000

What do you all think of tonight’s episode?

A clip and promo for tonights all-new DOLLHOUSE episode

gossi — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:49:39 +0000

If you’ve never seen Dollhouse or want to know why people are excited, check out Why I Watch.

If you’re a fan of the show and want to help it find more fellow fans, head over to Activate Dollhouse for banners, posters and a community.

Season two becomes 13 eps, season three in balance

gossi — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 10:52:24 +0000

The good news is Fox have said, on the record to The Hollywood Reporter’s Live Feed that all 13 episodes of season two will air. Dollverse has additionally confirmed this, so it isn’t some crazy network person doin’ their own thing.

This decision had waited until the DVR numbers rolled in yesterday, which showed a 50% gain from people using TiVo (etc). Tim Minear’s latest Dollhouse episode also showed a gain of between 10-20% in live audience.

The bad news is it looks like we will only get 13 episodes this season (originally 22 episodes looked a possibility), and a third season hangs in the balance. Let’s tell people about Dollhouse, yes? But, well, a week ago it wasn’t even certain we’d SEE the 13 episodes. And now we know we will.

Script – Season 2 Episode 3

gossi — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 05:10:33 +0000

Here’s the complete script to “Belle Chose”, for script buffs.

Discuss Dollhouse season 2 episode 3

gossi — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 02:09:22 +0000

This was my favourite episode of the first batch. (Plus points: next weeks is better).

What did you think?

Two clips of Friday’s episode

gossi — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 15:14:53 +0000

Here’s two clips of this Friday’s episode.

And a plea. Now might be the week to watch Live if you have chance. And if you haven’t already added Dollhouse to your DVR, now’s the time. If you’re in the US and have iTunes, you can also buy a ’season pass’ so you get all the episodes automatically downloaded the day after they air. If you’re out Friday night, you might also want to watch online (for free) via Hulu.

First of all, Topher talks about an imprint he’s done for a client:

Then, Paul talks to an imprinted Active.

First publicity of Summer Glau in Dollhouse

gossi — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 12:59:27 +0000

Check out the latest issue of EW for the words which go with it.