By Duy Tano
The last piece I wrote for Hasslein was about Faith the Vampire Slayer, and in it I mentioned that Eliza Dushku tends to have a
limited range, partly due to talent and mostly because anyone who watches
things she headlines, myself included, generally just wants her to play Faith,
or someone close to Faith, so what's really the incentive for her to try new
roles?
Spoilers
for Dollhouse
follow. If you want to go in cold, you
can skip the piece.
A few years ago, Dollhouse,
co-produced by Joss Whedon and Eliza Dushku and starring Dushku, premiered and
I watched a couple of episodes. The basic concept was that the Dollhouse was a
place where volunteers signed up for five years to have their brains wiped and
imprinted, at will, with other personalities, all to service the clients of the
Dollhouse. Dushku's character, Echo, in the first few episodes, played a
motorcycle-riding ideal girlfriend, a hostage negotiator, and a master thief,
among others. When not in their Doll state, these "Actives" are close
to mindless, unable to think for themselves.
I stopped watching Dollhouse when it was airing after three episodes. I just found it
boring.
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