I don’t think I’ve heard a barmier story all week. But when you look at it a bit closer, it sort of makes perfect sense. Here’s the story. Dollhouse is a brand-new show that will make its debut on the Fox later on this autumn. It stars Eliza Dushku and is written by Buffy and Firefly’s Joss Whedon. Eliza Dushku is quite cool and rather lovely. However, back to the show. Eliza’s character is part of a group of high-tech people who have had their brains re-wired so they can be imprinted with new personalities. This is quite handy because the sinister organisation that owns these ‘dolls’ (yes, there’s a sinister organisation) can hire them out and do all sorts of stuff. Like kill people. More on this story after the jump…

All goes swimmingly for this sinister organisation until Echo, Eliza’s character, starts visualising her memories and she starts to question her existence. Suddenly the sinister organisation isn’t happy and Echo and the rest of the Dolls’ existence is under threat.

As far as new, interesting ideas in the sci-fi/adventure genre goes, I think this sound pretty good. Here’s a clip:

See, it looks ok doesn’t it? Mega-daft, but ok.

Fans of Joss Whedon, and there many of them out there, are already moving to safeguard their favourite new show. Even though Buffy was an enormous international hit, they remember all too well what happened to Whedon’s much-touted follow-up, Firefly. It was cancelled very soon into its run.

Whedon fans don’t want this to happen to Dollhouse, so they have set up a facebook group , which already boasts 1,500 members. Through their website, DollhouseForums, fans urge fellow fans to organise viewing parties, watch trailers over and over again, by merchandise and general do all they can to sustain the show’s buzz.

However, over at the Whedonesque website, one very wise poster had this to say: “There is a fine line to walk so that this won’t be another obnoxious Whedon fan campaign that will piss people off and make them talk negatively about the show in advance. Please be careful.”

‘Nuff said. ‘Nuff said.

Just one question though… what happens if it’s monumentally shite? These people will look rather stupid.