Talk:Dollhouse (TV series)

message: I just made a change to the average for season 1, as 4.6 million seemed odd as the only episode that actually reached that was the pilot episode, from looking at the episodes page. 4.6 million is the average for the live + DVR viewing numbers, so I wanted to adjust it for the proper ratings. I just took the numbers from the episode page to get the new average. Hope everyone is fine with that. Drovethrughosts (talk) 23:55, 1 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Season 1 Ratings Average 

message: So an anon IP added some text on Boyd potentially being a doll, and I reverted it. And then they added the text again. Can someone take a look at that edit and comment on whether or not it's original research? Seems to me that changing the sentence to "When Echo regains Caroline's memories, she discovers that one of the two founders of the Rossum Corporation at one time had been using Boyd's body as a host and thus Boyd himself is most certainly a Doll seemingly installed in the Dollhouse to become Echo's handler." is OR. The show hasn't definitively stated that Boyd is a doll, so it's pure speculation until stated otherwise. — HelloAnnyong (say whaaat?!) 04:32, 14 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: In The Attic, Clyde speculated that the other founder had probably switched bodies, however this has not yet been established as a fact, it's also possible that "Boyd" is still in his original body. We'll probably have a definitive answer when the next episode airs in a couple days. As for the 5th body comment, that refers to the other Clyde. -- Gordon Ecker (talk) 07:27, 14 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Original research on Boyd? 

message: I wonder if this show is inspired by the horrific experiments of Dr. Ewen Cameron, in the 1950s.  Cameron, funded by the CIA, subjected 77 subjects to hundreds of electroshock treatments and used LSD and other drugs in an attempt to "depattern" them, erase their memories and personalities.  He then tried to implant new personalities by playing tape recordings.  DonPMitchell (talk) 19:08, 28 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dr. Ewen Cameron's Mind Control Experiments 

message: I thought I would point out that the citations styles denoting the episode that certain events occur in ("E-12", etc.) are confusing and not in line with out regular style guidelines for citations. Additionally, this moves into a very gray area in regard to synthesis, taking two different episodes and deducing connections. I would ask that the citation styles be altered to conform with our style guidelines, and that events in each episode be cited by external sources.
I will wait a few days, and then take action myself. - Arcayne (cast a spell) 19:18, 31 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Reliable secondary sources are generally preferred over primary sources, however according to Wikipedia:No original research#Primary, secondary and tertiary sources, "Any interpretation of primary source material requires a reliable secondary source for that interpretation. A primary source can be used only to make descriptive statements that can be verified by any educated person without specialist knowledge. For example, an article about a novel may cite passages to describe the plot, but any interpretation needs a secondary source.". In other words, primary sources are adequate for plot summaries. I recommend adding the  and / or  tags and tagging any alleged instances of improper synthesis with . -- Gordon Ecker (talk) 10:05, 3 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Citation style and synthesis issues 

message: The purpose of Wikipedia articles is to provide general information about certain things; when it comes to television shows and/or novels it is not the purpose of an encyclopedic article to "spoil" (as internet lingo dictates) literally everything about the show. While I've tried to fix this problem before, whoever it is that has honestly gone back in and typed whole paragraphs detailing the ending, every plot twist, and the fate of every character has redone their "spoiling."
If this author has a wish to write detailed episodic information relating to plot revelations and characters' fates, that author needs to relegate their postings to the individual episode entries, or save their work for the official Dollhouse wikia website.164.106.234.73 (talk) 15:43, 9 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Per WP:SPOILER, Wikipedia does not censor spoilers. An article is meant to discuss all aspects of the show, including plot points and things like that. If you don't like it, don't read it. — HelloAnnyong (say whaaat?!) 15:48, 9 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Far too much information revealed about the series finale 

message: Josh Wedon created all three shows Amy Acker played a scientist in the first episode of Dollhouse and in the last year of Angel (before she was turned into a goddess) even thought Eliza played Faith in Buffy and Angel and Echo in Dollhouse it would not be the first time a director/creator used the same actor for multiple parts. -- Marc Chase  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 156.33.195.254 (talk) 18:17, 17 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Whedon used many of the same actors from his other shows (a common idea), but it's not part of the Buffy/Angel universe. They would have to share the same characters for that to be the case. Drovethrughosts (talk) 20:32, 17 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Joss Whedon also had a number of actors from Firefly/Serenity who appeared in Buffy, Angel and Dollhouse, but playing completely unrelated characters in different fictional universes. RGCorris (talk) 23:28, 17 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is this show part of the Buffy/Angel Universe? 

message: While it's never been established within the story itself, the given names of the Dolls (Actives) are actually the phonetic designation of the letters using the NATO Phonetic Alphabet standard. For instance, "Alpha" is letter "A", "Echo" is letter "E", "November" - N, "Sierra" - S, "Victor" - V, and "Whiskey" - W. I'm not sure the relevance for including it in the description. Michaelopolis (talk) 18:13, 2 April 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: This is already included in the article here. Drovethrughosts (talk) 18:51, 2 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dolls (Actives) are named through NATO Phonetic Alphabet designations for letters 

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