Welcome to The Joss Whedon Spoilerfest
TV Guide redet lang und breit mit Joss über Season 2, und ja, es klingt großartig, und ja, es wird ein klein wenig gespoilt. Hier ein paar nicht-spoilery Bits:
Congratulations on Dollhouse’s renewal. Did Fox ask you to change the show in any significant way in an effort to get bigger ratings?
No, they really didn’t actually. The show as it came to be at the end of last season, pleased them very much. They pretty much just said, “Can you make it for less?”
So did you have to fire half your cast?
No, we didn’t have to do that, amazing enough. They cut the budget nominally. I respond very well to that kind of challenge. In fact, it’s made our stories bigger instead of smaller, now that we don’t have to spend our time thinking about little things like, ‘What’s this show?” “What’s it about?” and all those things that I was given last year. We can just concentrate on getting this done and getting it done right.
(..)
What’s your answer to those who are queasy with the idea that the Actives are basically prostitutes since they have no power over who they sleep with?
I never thought of that! No, I did. I think it’s a little more complicated than that. But there is that element of they have sex with people sometimes. We always deal with what it does to them psychologically. What good can come of it and what terrible can come of it and how are the people who are manipulating them feeling about what they’re doing. You get into the area of sex at all in America and it’s a touchy subject. Our response is to come at it head on and so we’ll see a lot of the consequences of what’s been going on with the Dolls over the next 13 episodes.
(...)
What’s your frank opinion of the first season, since it was a pretty difficult season for you?
I feel like we were trying to get to the show we wanted to make and while we were trying to figure it out we made a bunch of episodes that were diverting but not ultimately fulfilling for me. And then about halfway through, I felt that we found our footing and it felt like the network felt the same way and we all got on the same page. After that the show started to really excite me and we all started to have fun. You could feel it in the episodes. So that’s where we are now. The writers’ room has never been happier.
What do you think about being on Friday night?
We don’t have the burden of being a hit. We’re not being overly scrutinized. There’s no fear that our numbers will go down because they physically can’t. This is where I like to make TV. I like to be off the radar. So we’re all very comfortable with that time.
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Amy Acker kehrt leider nur für 3 Folgen zurück. :(
Congratulations on Dollhouse’s renewal. Did Fox ask you to change the show in any significant way in an effort to get bigger ratings?
No, they really didn’t actually. The show as it came to be at the end of last season, pleased them very much. They pretty much just said, “Can you make it for less?”
So did you have to fire half your cast?
No, we didn’t have to do that, amazing enough. They cut the budget nominally. I respond very well to that kind of challenge. In fact, it’s made our stories bigger instead of smaller, now that we don’t have to spend our time thinking about little things like, ‘What’s this show?” “What’s it about?” and all those things that I was given last year. We can just concentrate on getting this done and getting it done right.
(..)
What’s your answer to those who are queasy with the idea that the Actives are basically prostitutes since they have no power over who they sleep with?
I never thought of that! No, I did. I think it’s a little more complicated than that. But there is that element of they have sex with people sometimes. We always deal with what it does to them psychologically. What good can come of it and what terrible can come of it and how are the people who are manipulating them feeling about what they’re doing. You get into the area of sex at all in America and it’s a touchy subject. Our response is to come at it head on and so we’ll see a lot of the consequences of what’s been going on with the Dolls over the next 13 episodes.
(...)
What’s your frank opinion of the first season, since it was a pretty difficult season for you?
I feel like we were trying to get to the show we wanted to make and while we were trying to figure it out we made a bunch of episodes that were diverting but not ultimately fulfilling for me. And then about halfway through, I felt that we found our footing and it felt like the network felt the same way and we all got on the same page. After that the show started to really excite me and we all started to have fun. You could feel it in the episodes. So that’s where we are now. The writers’ room has never been happier.
What do you think about being on Friday night?
We don’t have the burden of being a hit. We’re not being overly scrutinized. There’s no fear that our numbers will go down because they physically can’t. This is where I like to make TV. I like to be off the radar. So we’re all very comfortable with that time.
Link
Amy Acker kehrt leider nur für 3 Folgen zurück. :(
wiesengrund - 23. Juli, 09:29
