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scifi.com:
People will compare this show to loads of other things ...
Whedon: People would come to me with "It's just like ... It's just like ... It's just like ..." I always feel a little guilty, if you have enough of those, I feel that's what makes it original. Eternal Sunshine is one of those things we all went, "Oh yeah, of course." Eternal Sunshine. Never Let Me Go, that novel. Actually, it was Tahmoh who pointed that out to me. Tahmoh Penikett, when I first got on the phone with him, he said, "Have you read this book ...?" And I went, "Oh my God, I have." And, yes, I think I'm stealing from it.
You're going to get a lot of Eternal Sunshine comparisons ...
Whedon: Eternal Sunshine, it's that same sort of idea of "What about our relationships is real, and what is just what we're projecting?" And that's really ... this whole [thing] revolves around the idea of what we expect from each other, what we believe about ourselves, and how all of that can be torn apart, and how you can build, from scratch, your own identity. So it's very dark and very morally gray.
Believe it or not, aber "
Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind" ist mir tatsächlich bisher noch gar nicht eingefallen. Aber es stimmt ja sowas von. Eine andere Sache, die dort erwähnt wird, ist etwas spoilery:
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Who is Amy Acker going to play?
Whedon: Amy plays Dr. Claire Saunders. She works in the Dollhouse and she's a very moral force. She's very, very, very broken. She's scarred, literally scarred. Something happened at the Dollhouse a while back, and she was scarred. She just sort of lives there, and her whole mission in life is to take care of them. Topher, the programmer, who is going to be cute and funny and sexy, he programs them, and he has a very amoral kind of point of view, and she is sort of his counterpoint.
Neu-Info: Saunders ist verletzt wegen "something [that] happened at the Dollhouse a while back". Anybody thinking Alpha?
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Sehr schön finde ich auch die Frage der Darkness:
Eliza was pretty dark on Buffy and Angel, and here ...
Whedon: She's a complete innocent as Echo, but what's interesting to me is, as she begins to build a character as Echo, one of the things that Echo is going to have to learn how to do is [be] evil. Part of becoming human is layering on something that is bad. So, that to me ... somebody described it as the serpent in the Garden of Eden, and I thought, "Yeah, that's her, too."
Von wegen, Echo ist Eva. Echo ist die Schlange!
