Dollhouse Week: Whedon and Penikett at NYCC

Welcome to Dollhouse Week! We’re all Joss Whedon fans here at Nice Girls HQ, so naturally we’ve been counting down the days until the mastermind’s latest series, Dollhouse, premieres. To help us through the final week, we’ll have a Dollhouse-related post every day. Joss Whedon and Tahmoh Penikett did us a solid to start out the week by appearing at New York Comic Con yesterday, so let’s get some scoopage.

End of Show’s correspondent summed up the feeling here:

There’s nothing like a new Joss Whedon show, is there? The excitement, the obsessiveness, the regression into beloved mythologies, the quoting of memorized lines of dialogue, the anxious worries of inevitable cancellation, the grassroots campaigning for a show that may or may not need saving… Fans long initiated into the Whedon cult, obsess; everyone else turns around and stares, wondering what all the fuss is about. And this year, with a shiny new Joss show, starring not one but two of his past alumns, the pilgrimage to New York’s Comic Con (lets face it, our Mecca), feels that much more important and exhilarating.

Those attending the panel were given a sneak peek at the pilot, including this pivotal setup scene for Eliza Dushku’s character, Echo. WARNING: Spoilers!

Eliza is mildly Faith-ish here, a little tough, a little broken, looking for someone to save her. Adele offers Caroline a way out of whatever jam she’s in – five years of service in exchange for “a clean slate.” “I don’t have a choice, do I?” Caroline asks, rhetorically. Actions have consequences, she muses.The scene ends on a shot of Adele, saying: “but what if they didn’t?” (Read more about the panel and trailer at End of Show.)

Fan Jen Hayley actually met Joss, and behaved as any Nice Girl would:

There I saw the fourth trade of Astonishing X-Men, written by Joss Whedon and art by John Cassaday. It was signed by John Cassaday, and while I have the first three trades, I don’t have the fourth, so I bought it. And about, oh, 72 seconds after that, Joss Whedon walked by me.

And I had no idea how to move.

(What happened next? Go to her blog to find out.)

And finally, here’s a video of the panel for you to bask in the Joss and Tahmoh goodness.