Dollhouse sources
Oct. 28th, 2009 11:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mundensAfter having watched the latest Dollhouse last night, I just wanted to record something which I noticed when watching the thirteenth episode, Epitaph One.
Almost everyone is aware that the basic premise for Dollhouse is taken from Gerry Anderson's Century 21 super-marionation series Joe 90 with appropriate updates to create an edgier and more modern story.
However Epitaph One owes a lot more to Frederick Pohl's 1964 novel A Plague of Pythons (also called Demon in the Skull). Though most blurbs for that novel imply some form of alien or demonic intelligence is responsible for people, including the lead character, being taken over by other intelligences and doing horrible things, which is what some of the characters in the novel think because the general public has no idea what's causing it, the final explanation is much closer to the situation in Epitaph One.
I'm not claiming that this is where Joss Whedon got the idea, but for fans of Epitaph One it might be interesting to see a similar concept rendered in a novel.
Almost everyone is aware that the basic premise for Dollhouse is taken from Gerry Anderson's Century 21 super-marionation series Joe 90 with appropriate updates to create an edgier and more modern story.
However Epitaph One owes a lot more to Frederick Pohl's 1964 novel A Plague of Pythons (also called Demon in the Skull). Though most blurbs for that novel imply some form of alien or demonic intelligence is responsible for people, including the lead character, being taken over by other intelligences and doing horrible things, which is what some of the characters in the novel think because the general public has no idea what's causing it, the final explanation is much closer to the situation in Epitaph One.
I'm not claiming that this is where Joss Whedon got the idea, but for fans of Epitaph One it might be interesting to see a similar concept rendered in a novel.
