I think those skills might have come from someone else, since Topher is demonstrably not the originator of the imprint technology (while he may be a virtuoso at the programming, it's possible he wouldn't be able to assemble the equipment from scratch). But it does seem unlikely that Alpha would have been imprinted with that skillset for a job beforehand, so he most likely had to steal a recording of someone to gain the necessary expertise.
yes, Alpha has gone beyond the original, and I don't think that it's a Topher imprint. Remember how Topher was surprised by the remote wipe of Taffy? If Alpha had a Topher imprint, Topher wouldn't have been surprised at the existence of a remote wipe.
They have said that Alpha is a genius. Maybe he just figured it out from first principles.
It's the middle of the night, and I've been wrestling with technical stuff for hours and hours (new blog/twitter stuff) and I guess sleep deprivation is making me do this:
I have to confess that every time anyone on Dollhouse mentions a wedge, I am immediately put in mind of Trivial Pursuit™
There. I said it.
Now maybe I should sleep.
have y'all seen this? WTF?! get the Kuzuis away from the Buffy franchise stat!!
Yeah, cause there aren't enough shallow fucking remakes around with mad product-placement potential.
Pass.
Make your *own* girly hero movie.
That is
an abomination.
Also, stupid. The show
was
the fricking reboot, of the really pretty awful movie that they made. And canon has continued through books and comics already. There is nothing fresh and interesting there for them to do. And they already proved, through the simple contrast of their movie and the TV show, that Joss? Kind of integral to the success of that particular concept.
Want to reboot something? Reboot something from the 60s or 70s, or even the 80s. Or wait ten years and THEN try to do your (terrible) Buffy reboot.
From a business point of view, it's actually better to do it now. Buffy is an international brand, but it will (and is) fall out of the public eye as the years pass.
This whole thing is all about money. I hope Joss and Fox pile in with lawyers.
They tried to reboot the TV series in a similar fashion a few years ago. They did a pitch which included Buffy getting frozen (I'm not making this up) and waking up in the future. All her friends were dead, so no Willow/Xander etc. As it happens Willow/Xander/etc were created specially by Joss and owned by Fox, so it got them around the rights issue. Oddly enough nobody would touch the idea, probably because they'd seen Futurama.
God, that is the Medellin of fantasy concepts(although they probably don't have much in common other than the application of mass amounts of cocaine. bad-dum-pum.
From a business point of view, it's actually better to do it now. Buffy is an international brand, but it will (and is) fall out of the public eye as the years pass.
No, I understand this. I understand that they HAVE the rights to BtVS, and that thus BtVS is what they're thinking of making money from, rather than having to acquire rights to something else.
But I was talking about artistic merit. The various reboots for BSG,
Charlie's Angels, Starsky & Hutch, Star Trek
et al are more interesting and timely in no small part because they aren't revamping something recent. Because the source texts were pop culture rooted in a very different culture, and so there have been enough changes in the kinds of television made, and in the ideals/values/cultural norms, that the reboots have not been a total waste of time.
