LUCID FORGE

So the "Dollhouse" panel just wrapped and now I've been able to move to some better seating for the "Fringe" panel. Now I'm not a huge fan of "Fringe" but I like it enough to say that it's the only new show this year that was able to get enough of my attention to stick around for a multiple episodes. Actually, scratch that. I think it's the only new show I've watched this year.

But first "Dollhouse and colour me impressed. It's going to be unlike anything Joss Whedon's ever done before. It's dark in a very real way, and filled with more moral ambiguity and murky ethics than a season-full of "Law & Orders." Despie the rumoured difficult birth of the show, it seems to really have its stuff together. And the well made 15 minute segment shown made me anxious to see more. But I, like the rest of you, have to wait until this Friday the 13th to see the whole thing.

The panel with Whedon and star Tahmoh Pinkett was funny and insightful. Whedon offered some great advice to aspiring filmmakers and the expression "What would Helo do?" was born in honour of Pinkett's morally balanced fighter pilot character on "Battlestar Galactica."

I think "Fringe" is about to get underway. More in an hour or so....