#156 - Aren't you just a doll.

[reileen]

By way of Angry Asian Man, Joss Whedon is returning to network television with an original drama called Dollhouse:

The show is another sci-fi-themed series about an elite team of secret agents who have "the ability to be imprinted with custom personalities and abilities for special assignments. When they return, their newly acquired memories are wiped." The show follows Dushku's character Echo as she "takes on a variety of assignments”, some romantic, some adventurous, some uplifting, some illegal, "and gains awareness of her role and confinement."

Sounds badass enough already, but here's the kicker:

Sierra
20's, Asian or any ethnicity - certainly not Caucasian. Strikingly beautiful. A Doll like Echo, she has every personality in the world but her own. Is not as self-aware as Echo, but is instinctively drawn to her as a friend. Series Regular.

I only hope she doesn't end up as what Disgrasian calls a "Mutasian":

A recurring archetype in movies and television who does not have speaking lines. Also known as an Ornamental.

Well, okay, if she's a series regular, she's bound to have some lines, but I just wonder if her character will get shafted to the side in favor of Echo's.

I don't know how much I'll be following Dollhouse, since I never watch TV and I don't (yet) have a working TV in my room (all I have is a giveaway computer monitor I got from the old manager of the Gamestop I used to work at), but seeing Whedon's name pop up reminds me that I have to watch that DVD set of Firefly I got for Christmas.

-Reileen
all the things she said

Comments

Hmm...

[ysabetwordsmith.livejournal.com]

I'm rather creeped out by the specification that the "Asian or any ethnicity" character is "not as self-aware as" the Caucasian one.

Re: Hmm...

[reileen.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's the other thing that caught me, too. "Is instinctively drawn to Echo as a friend"? It's like a variation on the "white samurai" theme, in which the only one who can save those Orientals from evil is...a white man.