Re: Great News! New Joss Whedon Series Starring Eliza Dushku!

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 "John L" <jl@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "George W Harris" <gharrus@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> news:nirii3pi1g2sfhtchcmavele814jd26hdt@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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http://www.eonline.com/gossip/kristin/detail/index.jsp?uuid=972f7d73-e0a2-43
> > ea-abad-0abf6afba1f3
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> > or
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> > http://preview.tinyurl.com/3586wj
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> This is almost word-for-word the basis of an old British children's
series
> called Joe 90 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_90
> 
> :> Joe's adoptive father and computer expert, Professor Ian
> :> McClaine, is the inventor of the BIG RAT, (Brain Impulse
> :> Galvanoscope Record And Transfer), a device that allows
> :> knowledge and experience to be copied from the minds of
> :> top experts in their fields to another person.
> :>
> 
> Each episode, Joe would be programmed with the requisite
> expertise for that week's plot. Aside from Dushku not playing
> a nine-year-old boy, what's the difference? Well:
> 
> :> The show revolves around the childlike Echo's burgeoning
> :> self-awareness, and her desire to know who she was before,
> :> a desire that begins to seep into her various imprinted
> :> personalities and puts her in danger both in the field
> :> and in the closely monitored confines of the Dollhouse.
> :>
> 
> So it is Joe 90 with pop psychology. Can't wait.

And Eliza Dushku isn't a puppet.

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