Pajiba

This is what I get to wake up to? Thanks Dustin, you're the best.

She may not be able to act (like the majority of young Hollywood) but she sure is pretty.

Not to thread-hijack but who is our Chilean Pajibette? Sofia? Forgive me if that's wrong but does anyone know if she is alright?

I’d like to think that whatever bet that Whedon lost that compelled him to cast Dushku in “Dollhouse” has been repaid.

Dollhouse would never have seen air without her. Dushku had a production deal with FOX and she brought in Whedon. She's listed in all the credits as "Executive Producer."

I agree that she is sadly lacking as an actress; but that still seems like a pretty solid thing to do for a friend.

Facebook says Sofi is ok, Abby.
And I guess with Dollhouse you had to take the good with the bad. I looked forward to it every week, it had some genuinely great television moments and it created some good discussion, I thought.
Plus, if it gets the guy who played Victor some more roles, then it was worth every minute.

Glad to hear Sofi's OK. Chile got clobbered.

I think that Eliza Dushku is good at playing exactly one character. As long as she's playing that character in this movie/show/whatever, it's all good. If she's not, not so much.

In the interest of adding nothing whatsoever to the discussion because everybody's already said it:

Dushku was good as exactly one thing: being Faith. And that picture is weird. I refuse to believe a little slip of a thing like her has cellulite.

I only watched most of the first season of Dollhouse, but I agree the guy who played Victor was really good. The episode where he was "imprinted" with Reed Diamond's character, he really nailed an impression of him.

Lastly, very glad Sofia's OK. So, uh, 2012, eh? Apocalypse Soon?

Did you see when he was imprinted with Topher, MM?
Amazing performance.

I missed it Optimus! I'm sure it was impressive.

Yeah, I'm not getting why Whedon has such "faith" (so to speak) in Eliza, especially when he's surrounded by people who can really ACT. It's not like he's never seen good acting.

Enver Gjokaj was AMAZING on Dollhouse. Just amazing. The show should have been about him. The Topher imprint was incredible, but every thing he did was fantastic. I really hope he gets more work.

Nice looking girl, terrible, horrible actress.

Jerce, maybe bad acting is contagious.

I don't agree that Eliza was the worst part of Dollhouse, I think Eliza was the BEST part of Dollhouse and that Echo was one of the most compelling characters on the show. I loved her journey from blank doll to fully fledged super person who truly could be anything. People who think she was only Faith the whole time obviously missed some episode because she was definitely not Faith while playing blank doll, the blind culties, the mother, Kiki, Rebecca Minor, Eleanor Penn, Crystal the hick, etc. You know what Eliza suffers from? People being bitter bitches that their fav Whedon actress wasn't playing the role and what I like to refer to as Lead Actress Syndrome. The lead actress on practically every TV show I see discussions on is always hated upon.

I'm looking forward to any future collaborations with Whedon and Dushku and hope they work together for many, many years to come. Their combination is magic and brings me my favorite TV. Buffy and Angel were always better with Faith and Dollhouse is probably my ultimate favorite show ever. It was brilliant and so incredibly creative. Joss Whedon and many other directors/writers in Hollywood think Eliza is talented, so teh rest of you can just shove it. Whedone didn't lose a bet, he loves Eliza and he loved working with her. It's as simple as that. Eliza is also the only one of his actors with any clout in the business to actually get films and TV shows off the ground. She has her own production company, can any other Whedon actress say that?

"Joss Whedon and many other directors/writers in Hollywood think Eliza is talented"

Okay, name three directors and three writers, right now, off the top of your head. (in addition to Whedon)

1) Upon reflection, I have decided that maybe Tahmoh Penikett is bright enought to know not to upstage The Executive Producer in his scenes with her.

2) She was the most talented member of the cast in Soul Survivors. Watch it and see if you don't agree.

Ohhhhhhh how tired I am of the Eliza Dushku bashing. I certainly don't think she (or her character(s)) for that matter were the best part of Dollhouse, but I don't think they were the worst.

The worst would be the occasionally terrible writing, especially in season 1. Eliza was often quite convincing. Of course, she was out-shined by Enven Gjokaj (ahh, how I want your sweet sweet nectar) and Dichen Lachman, and Olivia Williams, and Fran Kranz...

Sorry, I lost my train of thought picturing Enver Gjokaj in his comfy doll-state clothes.

Seriously, does anyone else think this man is beautiful? Wow this post ended up in a place it didn't start.

Lead Actress Syndrome.
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You're absolutely correct, as long as you pronounce it "led."

I definitely don't think Eliza Dushku was the worst part of Dollhouse. The worst part of Dollhouse was the incredibly uneven writing when they were arguing with Fox about which direction to take the show in, as well as finding their groove for a concept that was pretty difficult to execute. I don't think she excelled at dabbling around with different characters in the mission of the week type episodes, but I thought she was great as Echo, going through a journey of self-discovery. By the end of season two, which was an amazing string of episodes, she was knocking it out of the park. I'm kind of tired of all the constant Dushku bashing.

I do think Eliza is bad. What's charming about her is that I think she knows and is willing to work on it. She did improve a greal deal during Dollhouse, though obviously was out-staged by everyone else. I bet she's a very nice person because she does keep getting work. She is pretty but I wouldn't call her drop dead gorgous so I think it's that she MUST be very nice. That's rare for hollywood.