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Learn Which GALACTICA Vet Has Joined The Cast Of DOLLHOUSE!!
I am – Hercules!!
Tahmoh Penikett, the hard-to-spell actor who plays selfless electronic warfare officer Karl “Helo” Agathon on “Battlestar Galactica,” will play an FBI man and potential love interest for Eliza Dushku’s character in “Dollhouse,” the first new TV series created by Joss Whedon since “Firefly.”
"Dollhouse" is about replicant-like secret agents with implanted memories but none of their own.
Brace yourself for more difficult-to-spell actors.
Fran Krantz (“Welcome to the Captain”), a male, will play the genius who impregnates blank-slate human operatives with personalities.
Dichen Lachman (“Aquamarine”), a female, will play blank-slate Echo’s blank-slate pal and fellow operative Sierra.
Enver Gjokaj (the TV-movie “The Path to 9/11”), a male, will play Victor, another blank-slate friend of Echo.
See what Joss Whedon did there? He named all his blank-slate agents after components of the Whiskey Tango Foxtrot phonetic alphabet.
Fox has ordered seven episodes of the sci-fi actioner.
Read all of The Hollywood Reporter’s story on the matter here.
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...he's an electronic warfare officer, the guy in back in a Raptor. In other news: I am a huge nerd.
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Come on Herc!
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Me wants some Whedon+Dushku action.
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Jinx!
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wow, lots of faith in Joss, eh? with an order of seven, that means they'll actually air, oh, maybe THREE before they can it.
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he fixed the viper pilot line already. and in the tradition of Harry Knowles, it was not marked as a fix or edit, so people that come read this article after this will say "what are you talkbackers talking about? he got it right."
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... in fact, he's come out as saying it's the best show ever made. Including his own frakking awesome entries into the television lexicon.I wouldn't be surprised to see if he could steal Katee Sackhoff and or Grace Park as soon as Galactica wraps, because you know how Joss LOVES to be dominated by strong women (at least, I assume he does as it comes out in his writing... methinks Joss had a domineering mama).Seriously, now that Galactica is wrapping, you could literally write shows for some of the actors on the show to lead. I'm thinking Eddie and Mary could lead a show like Sally Fields leads now, where they are the patriarch / matriarch of a family. I could also see Eddie adding his considerable gravitas to an existing show like Law & Order (any of them).In fact, I think David Eick totally frakked up by NOT casting Katee as the new Bionic Woman. I'm sorry, but the other chick just didn't cut it. She couldn't hold her own against Katee when they were on the screen together. And I'm sure David is kicking his own ass for this, over and over and over again.
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Or in talkbacker parlance, WTF. Cute, Herc. I admit...that one was good.
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Well done, sir.
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... it's called the PHONETIC alphabet.Dude, come on.
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And you can almost hear the Browncoats sobbing...
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Damn glancing at headlines..
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Mar 26, 2008 10:49:03 PM CDT
So how will this affect Penikett's participation in the final 10
by pennsy
episode that BSG hasn't shot yet. And Herc, Ron Moore himself will direct a BSG episode. http://syfyportal.com/news424862.html
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It might actually live beyond seven episodes.
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For some reason I'm not getting as excited for this as I think I should be. I'm a huge Whedon fan. Angel is my favorite show of all-time, and Buffy is damn near close.
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Are you joking? I hear Fox has already written the press release to cancel the show. No network pulls the plug faster than Fox. I think they cancelled Drive before the pilot finished airing. You know that is exactly what happened with the Return of Jezebel James. Firefly was dumped quickly.
Sorry, but I give the show a far better shot at surviving on any other network than Fox. CBS would stick with this show just because it is a Joss Whedon project. Fox doesn't give a crap who's name is attached to it. If it doesn't get ratings quickly, it will be gone in 2-3 episodes.
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But only seven eps? Come on network execs! Hasn't the dude proved his worth by now? Can't you at least order a full HALF Season. Excited about Fran - he was cool in the TV SET playing Judd Apatow.
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I think it's good that Fox only ordered 7 episode, it will force Joss to move the story forward more quickly. Firefly gelled faster than any of his shows. It took Buffy until about halfway into season 2 to find its legs and Angel doesn't really work all that well until the kill off Doyle and bring in Wesley.
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I can't even figure out Fox. What's the economics of ordering a new show with 7 eps?
Fox is just WEIRD. They are certainly willing order a lot of different types of shows. You sort of could give them credit for that... except they stick with almost none of them... which makes you wonder... why they order them? -
... they've already proven that they aren't to be trusted.He should put out his show on The CW, which has generally treated his shows well (if you count the fact that they were once The WB and UPN)FOX is the worst at pimping genre shows and the worst at letting a show gain an audience. Sometimes, it takes more than even a full season to find an audience. FOX puts a show in the death slot on Friday and if it doesn't have the numbers by the third show, they kank it. It's frustrating.
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... it's TRUE. Funny about the Browncoats, but it's true about Joss being gay for BSGCheck it out on scifi.com. Look in the BSG section at the video entitled, "Phenomenon." It's cool how BSG can touch such disparate people as good 'ole boy Brad Paisley and his wife, the forever hot Kimberly Williams (Father of the Bride), the lead singer from Anthrax, Joss, S. Epatha Merkleson from L&O, and of course, Seth Greene.BSG and it's themes cross all boundaries of race, creed, and gender. It truly is the greatest drama in the history of television. It's better than Hill Street Blues, NYPD Blue, Rescue Me, DS9, and yes, Buffy, Angel, and Firefly.Ron Moore is a frakking genius!
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Indeed. And I believe Sci-Fi will be broadcasting those half-hour specials starting this Friday. (The "Phenomenon" one was a lot of fun.) It looks like they will also be running all-day marathons of the show (Seasons 1-3) throughout next week in preparation for the Season 4 premier. It's about frakkin' time...
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I bet Helo dies this season.
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... I'm pretty sure that the first death (in ep. 3) that they've talked about will be Cally. It makes sense, as she has an irrational hated of Cylons, and she is married to one of the legendary Final Five and is mother to a human-Cylon hybrid.I think Baltar dies eventually, but at the end of the series, along with Laura.I think that the second big death, the one that either happens in ep. 10 or in the second part of season 4 (or will that be considered season 5?) will either be Apollo or Lee. I put it at 2-1 odds that it will be those two.Also, remember the picture they put out? The one with the two 6's... the Last Supper picture? The picture where Ron said that no one in the picture is the Last Cylon? Guess who's missing who SHOULD be there?Gaeta and Dualla. So, 2-1 odds that the Last Cylon is either of those two, although it could be someone random like Hotdog or Racetrack.The only thing I don't even want to guess about is how the Lords of Kobol and the Cylon God fit into everything and if they're going to reach Earth in our past, present, or future. I really want to be surprised.
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... not Apollo or Lee, who are the same person.
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... I didn't think about that, but making Richard Hatch's character the Last Cylon is something that Eick and Moore would get off on doing, just to needle those crazies who worship the original, cheesy version of BSG.Besides, it would fit with his character's lack of background info besides his terroristic activities. I mean, we don't know anything about Anders or Tory, and Tyrol claims to be from Geminon with priests for parents, but that could be programing.
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That fucking traitor should be spaced out of the nearest airlock for twice preventing the fleet from implementing a plan to take out all the Cylons.
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aside from Dushku, but I'm sure he'll work 'em in there somehow.
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Moore is on record about the Last Cylon, that they are a tortured soul who must make amends for the mistakes of their past.Ladies and Gentleman, I give you your Last Cylon... TOM ZAREK.
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Mar 27, 2008 6:37:33 AM CDT
There are a few things in life that we can all count on.
by deusexmachina
One of those things is that people will be born. Another is that people will die. Another is that no matter what state you are in, there will always be long ass lines at walmart and too few cashiers. And the other thing is that Fox will have a decent sci-fi series on their hands and cancel it before it has a chance to mature.
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I'm sure to love all five episodes of it. -
Yeah, you heard me. TALENTLESS HACK. Couldn't write his way out of a wet paper bag. "Buffy" was complete gutter-junk and "Firefly" was smart-a**ed garbage. That is all.
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Does Whedon honestly believe this show is going to find an large enough audience with network viewers? The premise is just too quirky and too strange to draw a large audinece to be considered a hit on network standards. Joss would've been better off shopping this to cable network like FX or even Sci-Fi.
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It's not the character is bad, just the actor is all bland. Whenever he tries to work up serious emotion I start giggling at him. Should've been Tyrol.
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i say episode 5.
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Didn't he learn LAST time with Fox? This'll be over quickly.
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he's not working with FOX again because he wants to...he's working with FOX again because Dushku has a development deal with them and she wanted to work with him...so he said yes because he wants to work with her again...it just so happens that it has to be at/on FOX...
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great last season. He completely saveed that killer doctor episode from being a total mess.
I think it's great news. -
great last season. He completely saveed that killer doctor episode from being a total mess.
I think it's great news. -
when the show will get canclled. Three episodes or four. Can't beleive how they did Drive.
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Not that I or anyone else gives a frak about his character. I want to fuck Sharon/Athena.
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Dollhouse moves as slowly as Battlestar Galactica.
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Remember how at the very end of each Buffy episode the Fox banner would come in? That's because fox produced the show, and then it got sold to some other network. So Fox seems ok as producers, but as a network they can't hold sci-fi show for more than 3 episodes.
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He's hot...
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The way Fox runs things, they might as well be two separate companies
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I'm pretty sure that Joss has said that the people (assholes) who messed with Firefly so badly are no longer there, and that he has more confidence in the new blood at Fox. I'm bummed that they didn't cast Jonathan Woodward (Knox) in the techie role, but I have faith (no pun intended) in his casting. Four leads yet to cast, so maybe another Buffy/Angel alum (perhaps someone who's not obvious).
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... because she IS the Seixiest Tomboy Beanpoll on the frakking planet!
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none of the rest of us figured that out...oh, no, wait... ALL of us figured that out - it was just so obvious we didnt feel the need to post about it like it was a major discovery.
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...I just figured that you, being so slow and all, would need the help. Glad you've moved up to the middle of the short bus.
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WillowFan, while your "ShittyEyedDog" was mature, original and hilarious *cough*, I'm sorry you feel so personally hurt you had to lash out. You brought it on yourself by pointing out the obvious and looking like an idiot. So I'm not sure where you got that I was the slow one. You just keep on babbling and show what a moron you are.
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Unless Fox do something stupid like reshooting the pilot then recutting the original pilot into some kind of two-part flashback.
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She is pure sex goodness.
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By reading something someone said about me on the Internet? Hardly. I just thought I would pay you the courtesy of a response at what appeared to be your approximate maturity level. Shame, really...I think I overestimated you.
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