We all screw Fox would n’t lease Joss Whedon tell the story he want to tell in his mind - beef - for - money show Dollhouse , resulting in some murder - and - miss early installments . But in a new interview , Whedon explains that Fox ’s grownup problem was with sexuality .
Even though Fox push Whedon to argufy the show ’s original pilot light ( which was much more mythology - operose and set up up a ton of on-going storylines ) and exchange it with a lot of standalone instalment , Whedon tells the Chicago Tribune that was n’t really Fox ’s trouble with the series . Whedon explains :
Part of what was hold out to be the show was the estimate of … these clients and what their fantasies were , what they carry , what they wanted . You know , what do we get from each other in our most intimate relationships , be they sexual or [ whatever else ] . The interest in the client kind of moved away .
We were n’t going to tell little [ node ] tarradiddle . They were going to be scary , exciting or fishy . They were n’t blend in to just be people ruminating . But these small story needs just take on a thriller component , and if Echo is catch some Z’s with somebody it ’s to serve something else …
Fox sort of has that report for aphrodisiacal or nervy or blah , blah , blah , but they do n’t actually want that and it baffle me . It ’s the Graeco-Roman American double measure — agony , “ Great . ” sexual activity , “ Oh , that ’s so bad . ”
And but this was also more complicated because the great unwashed respond to this [ by articulate ] , “ This is trafficking . This is sexual urge for money . ” It was n’t just sex . It was also the other implications of what was primitively conjecture to be somewhat more of a fantasy . The existent world version of [ this form of activity ] was I think what made the web really twitchy and I ca n’t really fault them for that . I just imagine when I went in and pitched it … you be intimate , it frighten me too [ but I think ] we all got that that was what we were doing .
using was n’t the whole composition . It was going to be a enquiry of , how much of this phantasy will the great unwashed let us have . Now , I did n’t make incisively the same show [ that was pitched ] , but we did get to delve in the territory a small spot . The approximation was always , how much of the fantasy will [ viewing audience ] accept and how much will they go , “ You have sex what , this just is too much like real - world situations that are really appalling and so I ca n’t let the fantasy happen . ”
Because as I said before , when you ’re dealing with fantasy , especially sexual ace , you ’re going off the reservation . You ’re not going to be doing thing that are perfectly correct . It ’s opine to be about the side of us that we do n’t want masses to see .
The idea that Dollhouse ’s geographic expedition of intimate fantasy would have been aim at make the viewers uncomfortable — not so much because of the human trafficking or non - consensual aspects , but because they were too near to our substantial situations , is a fascinating one . Given that the show ’s sexual aspect already squicked wads of viewer in their watered - down form , I ’m not trusted how viewers would have responded to a full - on in - your - expression edition . mayhap it would have been more nuanced and live a bit bass , and thus been all right .
The full consultation , in which Whedon talks more about what he thinks knead and what did n’t work in Dollhouse , gives a few wind about the final episode , and talk about why he ’s more excited to make television receiver for the Internet than for line TV , is well deserving reading . [ Chicago Tribune ]
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