Dollhouse

[fleetfootmike]

I just figured out why the corporation in Dollhouse is called Rossum.

Equal parts "Doh! Of course." and "Oh, niiiiiice."

Comments

[bardling.livejournal.com]

No "Duh" on my part, I'd never heard of nor otherwise come across it or the background...

[keristor.livejournal.com]

R.U.R.? (That's the only place I know the name, since I don't watch Dollhouse, I don't know how well that matches.)

[pbristow.livejournal.com]

If you'll forgive me for mixing Piratespeak with LOLCAT...

Arr, U R RITE! =;o}

[pbristow.livejournal.com]

Having just learned more (thanks, Wikipedia!) about the play than I ever knew before, it actually fits a lot better than I first assumed.

[filklore-on-lj.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I always thought that Whedon should have stuck with Universal after Serenity, instead of going back into business with Fox...

[luis-mw.livejournal.com]

I think that one clicked about three episodes in and I was most amused when it did. Nice one :)

[batyatoon]

I got it right off. :D

[johno.livejournal.com]

He was contracted with Fox to do 3 series after Buffy.

[keristor.livejournal.com]

Looking at the Wikipedia article after you mentioned it I noticed that it actually mentions the connection at the bottom. (I still haven't read, or even seen a copy of, the play. I only know about it by reputation.)

[filklore-on-lj.livejournal.com]

*Wooosh*

[the-magician.livejournal.com]

Grin, it's a standard SF quiz question, about the origin of "Robots", so the sad geeks among us (yay Mike!) will have spotted it immediately or fair soon ... R.U.R. ... makes a lot of sense really, and is a nice "in-joke".

[valydiarosada.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen Dollhouse, but I did pay my respects at Capek's grave, when we were in Prague a few years ago.

I've never seen R.U.R. performed. However there was a production of another of his plays, War with the Newts, in London back in the 1980s that was quite fun.