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The song from the end of Dollhouse's "Epitaph One" is for sale
July 20th, 2009 | 
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"Remains," the hauntingly beautiful song from the end of "Epitaph One," the unaired 13th episode of "Dollhouse," is now available for purchase at Amazon
"Remains" was written and performed by "Dollhouse" writers Maurissa Tancharoen & Jed Whedon (who also wrote the script for this episode) and released on their "Nervous Circus" label. And it's gorgeous.
"Epitaph One," which was supposed to premiere at the San Diego Comic-Con next week, was leaked to the torrents last week along with the unaired pilot. You're on your own finding it, but if you do download it please buy it anyway when it comes out on the 28th. You'll also get commentary on two episodes, lots of deleted scenes, and several hefty features. Order it from Amazon for just $31.99!
burn down my home
my memories hardened in the brightest chrome
good times escape
while every mistake seems to be caught on tape…
And if you haven't yet voted for the winner of the Dollhouse Season One DVD set, please do! Ten entries were chosen for you to select from, and one random winner from all the entries will also be chosen. Vote!
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Why would you hire a doll? Vote for the Dollhouse DVD winner!
The submissions for the Dollhouse Season One DVD contest are in, and I've selected ten finalists. And I'm really wishing I had hired a doll to help me do it. You people are creative.
Granted, the most common request was for a doll to help you win the contest itself. Then it was either for a doll to help you meet Joss Whedon, or to be Joss Whedon. Quite a few of you wanted to meet yourself, or see how others see you. Several of you specifically requested a doll to go deal with Fox executives, either in a businesslike manner or with massive firepower. And more than a few stressed that you could not in good conscience ever justify hiring a doll, but you wanted to win anyway 
Here's the ten I chose, more or less arbitrarily. They're either representative of many similar ones, or they offer unique ways to use a very singular resource, or they just caught my eye. Now I need you to vote for the ones you like, up to three entries per voter. Names of entrants have been left out for privacy, although if the entrants themselves want to go public, hey, go wild. Some of the entries have been edited slightly, for space.
You can vote till 9 p.m. EST Wednesday, July 22. (Updated, and here's why) After that the winner will be announced, and another winner will be randomly drawn from all the entrants. Good luck to everyone!
Why would you hire a doll?
- Because I have a perfectly good see-saw that's just sitting there. It's just sad. (45%, 21 Votes)
- To be my tour guide in places I've always wanted to visit, like Italy or China. Native fluency in the language and familiarity with the location to provide an insider's perspective. (23%, 11 Votes)
- I would have myself put into a guy's body. See what it's like to manage different plumbing, interact with people as a guy, and go to places and events where girls are either unallowed or unwelcome. (21%, 10 Votes)
- I would hire a doll with the collective knowledge of the greatest researchers and cure cancer (and other medical and environmental ills). Why hasn't the Rossum Corporation done this?! (21%, 10 Votes)
- I'd hire a doll with Topher-like abilities to build another imprinting machine and make my own dollhouse. :) It's like asking for more wishes, but a million times more illegal and unethical ;) (19%, 9 Votes)
- To dress as an evil clown and stalk me. And then my friends would ask, "Hey, why is that clown following you?" and I'd say, "Cause I killed his parents!" And then they would finally respect me. (19%, 9 Votes)
- My friend's husband died three days before she was diagnosed with cancer. I would hire a doll to give her and their 4 kids an amazing picnic and be a family again, even if only for a moment. (11%, 5 Votes)
- To carry out my final wishes after I die, tie up all the loose ends I didn't have the stomach to in life, tell my loved ones I loved them and my enemies why I thought of them as such. (4%, 2 Votes)
- To be programmed with the personality, opinions and experiences my niece might have had if she hadn’t died 10 years ago. And then I would take her to lunch and let her tell me all about herself. (4%, 2 Votes)
- To take over a nation. The right skill set could be used to inflame the populous into revolt, take out the dead wood, take over, then run it rationally. (2%, 1 Votes)
Total Voters: 47
Loading ...Last chance to win a Dollhouse DVD set
Clock's ticking! You've got til midnight tonight, EST, for a chance to win a copy of the Dollhouse Season One DVD set.
Just head here and tell me why you'd hire a doll.
Two sets will be given away; one to a random winner, and one to the entry you select from the best 10, which I'll be posting tomorrow.
Winners will be announced Tuesday, July 21, so folks going to Comic-Con will know if they should be trying to buy one or not.
Don't miss your chance!
Fustercluck at Fox: adventures in Comic-Con Dollhouse DVD ordering
Update: three days after ordering and being charged three times, my duplicate "authorization" charges have finally been removed from my account.
So, here's what's going on.
First the countdown till the time we could order the Dollhouse SDCC Limited Edition DVD set ended, but the order form did not appear. Instead, the countdown started counting up.
Then the order form appeared, but it rejected more credit cards than it approved and kept giving errors or blank pages. Problem: refreshing the page, using your back button or pressing "submit" more than once apparently caused it to try your credit card again, resulting in multiple charges on the cards of many fans, me included. According to Fox these multiple charges are "authorization charges only" and will be refunded/canceled within one to two business days, depending on your bank.
And the promised confirmation e-mails were not coming out.
Then they brought down the page and redirected it to the main Fox store while they worked on the problem.
Things seem to be a bit more stable now. One of the credit card problems was fixed (if you typed in 2009 for your credit card expiration date, it only read the 20 part and not the 09 part, causing the validation to bounce) and orders are now going through. Give it a shot!
I just received my confirmation e-mail, about 8 hours after I received my confirmation number.
About the sneak peek of "Epitaph One" we were promised: In your confirmation e-mail you get a JAGTAG, which you must take a picture of with your cellphone and send it to a specified number. Also, you must be a customer of Verizon, AT&T or Alltel, none of which was mentioned by Fox beforehand. Also, your phone must be the right sort to handle the content, which mine apparently is not. From reports it was JagTag's problem, as their own site was giving up errors. A few hours later, I finally received the video to my phone (even though earlier I got a text message telling me my phone wasn't good enough), and there it was: 25 seconds of a confrontation involving a familiar face. And there's Felicia Day! Hi Felicia! By the next day the clip was posted at Dollverse.com for everyone to see.
I don't know what the deal ultimately was, but this promotion had serious problems on every level. Glad to see they seem to have it patched up now — and I don't know if they've ever tried anything like this before — but I'm glad to see the mood among fans is mostly tolerant, with some very understandable beefs.
All of this is to get the limited SDCC edition Dollhouse Season One, numbered, with different packaging (see above) and a note from creator Joss Whedon. Only 5,000 will be produced, and you'll have to pick it up at the con or have a friend pick it up at the Fox booth at the con (#4129) starting Wednesday at 6 pm.for you, and you'll need to provide your friend's e-mail address when you order. One per customer.
$49.95 for the regular set, $69.95 for Blu-Ray. Or you could just order the regular edition from Amazon for just $31.99
Win a Dollhouse Season One DVD set!
Announcing BashinginMinds' first giveaway: two Dollhouse Season One DVD sets!
Season one of Joss Whedon's controversial series Dollhouse will be hitting the streets on July 28, but you can win one a week early. All you have to do is tell me this:
Why would you hire a doll?
Please keep comments under 50 words or so, and relatively PG-13. Otherwise, go wild. Please use the form below; entries posted as a comment to this post will not be entered.
Entries must be received by midnight EST on Friday, July 17, 2009, and there will be two ways to win. First, I'll select the best 10 and put those up for a vote, winner gets a DVD set. And I'll select a name at random from all the entries for the other set. Winners will be announced Tuesday, July 21, so folks going to Comic-Con will know if they should be trying to buy one or not…
Dollhouse DVD review… kinda
Good news! I can tell you about most of the upcoming Dollhouse DVD set!
Bad news: reviewers only get the first 3 discs with the aired episodes, but not the final disc with the extra goodies. So I can't tell you about the unaired episode 13 "Epitaph One," or the original unaired pilot, or the features, or the deleted scenes. FOX wants to keep those under wraps until the release date and I can understand that even as I secretly hoped their shipping department would mistakenly send me the wrong disc. But I did get to listen to the commentaries from creator Joss Whedon and star Eliza Dushku, and those were well worth it.
The show
The Dollhouse is an illegal underground company spoken of in whispers, where you can hire an attractive young person for literally any purpose you can imagine. These people, known as "actives," have had their memories completely removed so that they can have new memories and new personalities imprinted in them to order. Actives can temporarily become perfect lovers, thieves, assassins, companions, detectives, whatever the very well-heeled clients want, and afterward their new identities are stripped away again so they're ready for the next engagement. Only, one of them is starting to remember…
Dollhouse stars Eliza Dushku as Caroline/Echo; Harry Lennix as Boyd Langton, Echo's handler; Fran Kranz as Topher Brink, the amoral genius behind the Dollhouse tech; Olivia Williams as Adelle DeWitt, the boss of the place; Reed Diamond as her creepy chief of security Laurence Dominic; Enver Gjokaj as Victor; Dichen Lachman as Sierra; and Tahmoh Penikett as FBI agent Paul Ballard. Regular guest stars included Amy Acker as staff physician Dr. Claire Saunders and Miracle Laurie as Mellie. The series had an uneven start, with the first episodes being mostly standalones that simply showcased what actives from the Dollhouse are hired to do with only a passing nod to any ongoing story arcs or show mythology.
The commentaries
Now, there are three types of DVD commentaries. There's the one where the people talking get caught up in the show and forgot to comment on anything, but I've rarely seen that on a Whedonverse DVD. Talkative bunch, they are. Then there's the type where the commentators are just having a blast, reminiscing and cracking each other up and offering funny little behind the scenes moments. That's what Joss and Eliza do in their commentary on the aired pilot episode, "Ghost."
How to get a limited edition Dollhouse DVD set
Dollhouse Season One will be available on DVD and Blu-Ray on July 28, but if you're going to the San Diego ComicCon you can get one the week before. Even better, it'll be a limited edition, numbered, with different packaging (see above) and a note from creator Joss Whedon. Only 5,000 will be produced. Sweet!
If you're going to the con, stop by the Fox Store on Monday, July 6, starting at 10 am PST. You'll need to take your order confirmation, plus a photo ID to the Fox booth (#4129) starting Wednesday at 6 pm. If you're not going to the con but you have a friend willing to pick it up for you, you'll need to provide your friend's name and e-mail address when you place your order. Only one per customer.
They're not cheap, mind you. $49.95 for the regular set, $69.95 for Blu-Ray.
If that's too rich, or if you don't have a way to pick up a ComicCon one, you can order the regular edition from Amazon for just $31.99
And check back here, within the next few days I'll be posting a mini-review and telling how you how you can win a free Dollhouse Season 1 DVD.
'Dollhouse' Whedon's newest, strangest work
From left: Harry Lennix, Fran Kranz and Eliza Dushku in "Dollhouse."
What if you could be anyone?
What if you could do anything?
If your memories were erased, again and again, would there be anything left of you?
These are the questions to be examined in Joss Whedon's new TV show "Dollhouse," starring Eliza Dushku, premiering Friday, Feb. 13 on FOX. Other, equally important questions to be answered are: Can Eliza Dushku convincingly play several different people every episode? Will viewers tune in and follow a storyline guaranteed to be as psychological as it is action-packed? Will viewers tune in at all on a Friday night, in enough numbers to satisfy FOX?
My quick review, for those "don't tell me anything, la la la I can't hear you" people who are avoiding even the slightest hint of plot: It's good. It's going to get even better. Watch it.
More details, and a promo video, after the jump.
First look at Whedon's "Dollhouse"
The first look at Joss Whedon's new show "Dollhouse" is out; this is the trailer presented to the advertisers today.
Coming next January. Comments?
