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Hollywood loves to give us happy endings — but often as not, when the good guys scrape a last-minute victory in the face of incredible odds, you're left wondering how long it'll last. Maybe part of the reason why that victory seems so miraculous is because it'll never work. More »
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The fall TV season is beginning, and that means one thing — you're finally going to get to see the TV pilots that the networks have been sweating over for a year. Most of them will totally suck — even if the shows they launch wind up being good. But a few of them will be amazing, full of killer action and interesting characters. More »
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Mind control yarns are a staple of science fiction, but they tend to fall back on the same tropes. Fortunately for you, I've developed a character that blows all those tried-and-true formulas to smithereens. Join us as we reinvent the mind control tale. More »
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It's almost fall TV season, which means just one thing — it's time to start second guessing the TV networks. Many new shows will be introduced, and most of them will die an ignominious death. More »
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There's a ton of promising new books this week. The X-Men file for divorce, Dollhouse returns with the new adventures of Alan Tudyk, and Jeff Smith of Bone releases a new issue of his awesome science fiction comic RASL. More »
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With his recent appearance on Doctor Who, Mark Sheppard cemented his place as science fiction's greatest character actor. But we've been loving Sheppard for years...and we assembled this video of every last one of his scifi roles to prove his awesomeness. More »
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What's new in comic shops this week? Ed Brubaker wraps up his latest Incognito miniseries, Bill Willingham pulls the plug on Jack of Fables, and enough one-shot comics are out to wallpaper your bedroom. More »
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Would Joss Whedon's Dollhouse have been a bigger hit if it had been pitched more to teenagers, a population who know a little something about people trying to erase their identities? A new young-adult novel aims to find out. More »
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In a sign that the line between science and science fiction is blurred in many people's brains (or just that you can get whatever result you want in a survey) a shocking number of Brits believe scifi tech is real. More »
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Andrew Chambliss is one of the most successful young writers in television — he's written some of the most memorable episodes of Joss Whedon's Dollhouse and The Vampire Diaries. He told us what it's like to work with genre legends. More »
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Dark Horse Comics has given us a preview of the Dollhouse one-shot comic that hits stands March 30. The comic is written by Dollhouse writers Maurissa Tancharoen and Jed Whedon ("Epitaph One") and acts a precursor to Dark Horse's upcoming Dollhouse series. The one-shot takes place just as Rossum's machinations make the world go to pot and expands on the storyline from previous Dollhouse comics. Here's Dark Horse's synopsis: More »
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It never fails. Now that Fringe has become the best television show in two universes, it's getting moved to the Friday-night slot that claimed Firefly and Terminator. How can we save Fringe from Fox's Friday-night curse? A few ideas below. More »
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Enver Gjokaj (a.k.a. Victor from Dollhouse) is reportedly in the running to play Rex Matheson, a hard-bitten CIA agent on Torchwood: New World who's oblivious to his coworker's crush. Cue Captain Jack stepping in and breaking some hearts. More »
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Dollhouse season two is on DVD, which means it's time to rediscover Joss Whedon's most challenging show. We spoke to star/producer Eliza Dushku about the show's challenges, the criticisms Dollhouse faced...and the Echo/Paul outtakes that were too much for TV. More »
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To commemorate the release of Dollhouse Season 2 on DVD today, the Dollhouse team made this music video for the song "Remains" from the episode "Epitaph One." What's it about? A fellow who buys his android lover through the mail. More »
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A documentary crew follows "working class heroes who exterminate alien threats in deep space." Smokers sounds like a dream TV series, even before you hear it's the brainchild of Brian K. Vaughan, co-produced by Sam Raimi. Too bad it's Fox. More »
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The allure of the cyborg is so widely-accepted that it's become a cliche in science fiction, but people rarely ask why. Doesn't it seem a little strange that humans are so powerfully attracted to synthetic versions of themselves? More »
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The greatest mad scientists dabble in forces that... wait for it... man (or woman) was not meant to meddle with. And many of them live to regret it. Here are 20 mad scientists whose journeys ended in remorse and despair. More »
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Even if you're a massive science fiction fan, there are probably still some great shows you've yet to discover. But for massively long-running shows, where to begin? Here's our guide to how to start watching twenty classic science fiction shows. More »
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Joss Whedon always swore he'd never do a Dollhouse comic book, but looks like we'll get one after all. "Epitaphs" tells the story of how some key characters survived the brainpocalypse. It'll be bundled with the season two DVDs. More »
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The Queen Geek that killed it in Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, fought the future in Dollhouse's "Epitaph One," and routinely loots our heart in The Guild turns 31 today. So hoist a cold one in her honor! More »
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Hobbits are known for being small folk, but even the most vertically-challenged Hobbit would have trouble fitting inside Maddie Chambers' meticulous reproduction of Bag End. Grand Lord of the Rings art really does come in very small packages. More »
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You know, His Jossness doesn't need the money, but anyone who can — in a mere two minutes — demolish Stephen Baldwin and exalt Whedon's penchant for making TV with attractive, ball-busting women earns our love. More »
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Science fiction is an endangered species on the "big four" U.S. networks — Lost is ending, and pretty much every other show is in ratings freefall. Which trend should we blame for this turn of events? More »
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What if Iron Man 2 sucks? Or the finale of Lost leaves us cold? Why do you care so much about things that don't care about you? It's possible that you're in an abusive relationship with pop culture. More »
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Is NBC turning our torment into entertainment? Rumored sitcom Our Show pokes fun at our cancelled-show grieving process. Here's the premise: "a group of sci-fi fanboys in a small town shoot their own version of a canceled TV show." [SpoilerTV] More »
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Enver Gjokaj played Victor (and a whole bunch of other characters) on Joss Whedon's much-missed show Dollhouse. Now he's following in Whedon's footsteps, launching a new webseries called Previously On Point Dume. He told us it's "Twin Peaks meets Clue." More »
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People talk about science fiction as the literature of humanism. But actually, science fiction's explorations put it into conflict with humanism's tenets. The best science fiction questions the nature of humanity, and whether the universe will let us stay human. More »
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Dollhouse's Eliza Dushku might be going back to Joss Whedon's laboratory of evil soon — she told an interviewer the duo aim to make a movie together. And she also still hopes to be in Ghostbusters 3. More »
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It's been a week since Joss Whedon's Dollhouse closed up its rent-a-slave operation, and we're still grieving, for the stories that will never be told now. Dollhouse kept exceeding its limitations — but never reached its potential. Spoilers rising... More »
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It's not every day that you can raise awareness of the Cylon threat and help the victims of a terrible natural disaster. The Chicago Tribune's Maureen Ryan has added some sweet BSG and Dollhouse schwag to her Haiti charity auction. More »
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Dollhouse, Joss Whedon's weirdest show, started out being about people who can be anybody. But last night, every one of the show's characters was so clearly defined, so much themselves, that their personalities are imprinted on our brains forever. Spoilers... More »
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Joss Whedon's mind-warping Dollhouse ends tonight, and then we'll enter the "endless rewatching and overanalyzing" phase of our relationship with this show. Here are 10 things we'll miss most about Dollhouse, plus some clips from tonight's finale. More »
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The Late Night Wars may be over, but television finds itself unable to stop. This week alone, there're new episodes of Chuck, Supernatural and Caprica, not to mention the final ever episode of Dollhouse. Hankies and actives at the ready! More »
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Ron Howard and Brian Grazer are developing a new TV show based on Gene Roddenberry's scrapped android-angst show The Questor Tapes. Bland, preachy and insipid, Questor doesn't seem like a good template... unless it's true Tim Minear is on board. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5453993&view=rss&microfeed=true Could Joss Whedon have finally come to his senses and realized that cable TV will give him the chance to tell edgy stories without compromising and facing the constant spectre of cancellation? We can only hope. FX President of Entertainment John Landgraf told the TV Critics Association tour the other day that he's planning on having a lunch meeting with Whedon in a few weeks. Let's hope it's a fruitful meeting - we're excited by the idea of Whedon creating more online-only content like Dr. Horrible, but we need our hour-a-week fix of the Whedonverse. [Matt Roush on Twitter, thanks Bella_Vina!] More »
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