Buffy Meets Edward

'Nuff said.

Nice mashup.

(If for some reason you want to know why this video was made, as if it's not obvious, the creator writes about it here.

Extremely Good News

Joss is back. And so is Eliza Dushku:

Whedon and "Buffy" buddy Eliza Dushku (Faith from the show) will be launching a new series, "Dollhouse," with Fox. The actress' Boston Diva Production and Whedon's Mutant Enemy will produce the show, which has gotten a seven-episode commitment. Though a writers' strike could delay production, it's scheduled for fall 2008.

Dushku will be a producer and play Echo, a young woman who is everybody's fantasy. She is one of a group of men and women who can be imprinted with personality packages, including memories, skills, language and even muscle memory, by a company/place called the Dollhouse.

This sounds a bit like the awesome STAR TREK:TNG episode "The Perfect Mate" starring Famke Janssen as an empathic metamorph, that is, every man's personalized fantasy. I love to cite the episode as an example of how science fiction can take a contemporary theme (how some women alter their personalities to suit the men they're with) and kick it up a notch.

Awesome. I can't wait.

Anybody who can get me scripts will earn serious gratitude.

Oh, and here's some more info on the series.

Somehow I Missed This

Joss Whedon explains the future of TV way back in 2006:

The networks will all be creating exciting, innovative new spin-offs of today’s shows. Approximately 67 percent of all television will be CSI, including CSI: Des Moines, CSI: New York but a Different Part than Gary Sinise Is In and NCSI: SVU WKRP, which covers every possible gruesome crime with a groovin’ ’70s beat. [...]

Lost has that one-of-a-kind alchemy that really can’t be copied. Therefore, look for the original series Misplaced, as well as Unfound; Not So Much with the Whereabouts; and Just Pull Over and Ask, Already!

... And what of me? My short-lived series Firefly was the basis for the epic action film Serenity (now available on DVD! I have little or no shame), and the future will see even more incarnations of this visionary work, as it returns to TV as Serenity: The Firefly Years, then back to film as Firefly: Serenity’s Sequel, back to TV as SereniFly, and finally end as the direct-to-eyeglasses series Choose a Damn Name Already. I promise it’ll be as heartwarming and exciting as the original Serenity, now available on DVD.