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I was kind of surprised at how Echo ended the season. We know that she has some awareness of being Caroline, but it seems a pretty risky move to present Echo as superficially very much like the Echo we saw at the beginning of the season.
Craft: I would say the key word there is “superficially.”
Fain: Yes.
Craft: I think it will be very satisfying to fans how it plays out in the future. It’s funny because we have another episode that was done after this …
“Epitaph One”?
Craft: Yes. So to us, we don’t think of this as the last episode of the season, even though it technically is, because this other episode gets into — well, I don’t want to say too much about it.
Was that the busted pilot?
Craft: No, no, it’s a whole different episode, it’s a really fun, out-there …
Fain: Not only is it “out of the box” but a “broke the box and stomped on it” episode.
Craft: Hopefully if we get a Season 2, we’ll show that episode. It’ll definitely be on the DVD.
I think my favorite line from Friday’s show was when Topher (Fran Kranz) screams, “I’m smarter than anyone in this room, but less scary!” I imagine it’s difficult to do a drama that is this intense and still give the fans their quota of Whedonisms.
Craft: Well, that’s been all over the message board. Many people complain that “Dollhouse” isn’t …
Fain: “-nesque” enough?
Craft: Yeah, “-nesque.” It’s a different show. You don’t want to do the same show over and over. But as the show really kicked in to what it really is, people became more interested in that and less about how it wasn’t “Buffy” or “Angel” or “Firefly.” And keep the humor.
Ballard, to me, is the most interesting character because inside the “Dollhouse,” he’s like the sanest man in the room, but outside of it he’s a total lunatic. It’s kind of natural that he would be invited inside and given employment.
Craft: That was always Joss’ plan. We worked toward that the whole season.
Fain: To me that’s one of the richest things to explore in a second season. What happens when he finds the girl? What happens when that same guy gets into the dollhouse? Does he get corrupted? That’s just fascinating to me.
Aaron Barnhart has written about “Dollhouse” more than once at TVBarn.com.
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