2 posts tagged “joss whedon”
Joss Whedon's Dollhouse airs episode six this Friday, and according to Joss it's the hook: the one that once you watch, you won't be able to stop watching.
Dollhouse's premise is programmable memories: the actives have personalities that are downloaded for engagements and when they return to the Dollhouse their memories are wiped...erased...completely forgotten (although it appears that an imperfect wiping process is the central premise of the plot.)
Scientists now appear to be advancing research into the technology, making it seem like the future of Brave New World's Soma is not so much ingested medicines, but applied treatments.
A world without painful memories is not a complete world.
Should painful memories be erased?
Toronto researchers have been able to do it in traumatized mice
Mar 13, 2009 04:30 AM, JOSEPH HALL, HEALTH REPORTERSomething horrible happens. A child is lost. A bomb goes off. A car goes out of control.
And deep in the brain, in the lateral amygdala region, a scattered set of neurons come to life and begin to vibrate with fear.
Through an ingenious set of experiments, a group of researchers at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children have not only located these terror-laden brain cells in mice, but erased them--along with the frightening memories they stored.
Joss Whedon's new show Dollhouse premiered on Friday night. It's only the second show in the last three years that I'm going to be watching on a regular basis. 30 Rock is one of the others, of course, and this year's Fringe has done a great job of holding my attention.
Whedon's history is good with Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, and of course Firefly and the movie it spawned--"Serenity":imdb.
Something struck me about Whedon's writing while I was watching Dollhouse: he's got a reputation for writing strong female characters and, while this is true, he also seems to write replaceable female characters.
What exactly does this mean?
