The reporters that visited the Dollhouse set wanted to know about the new pilot. But they also got Mr. Whedon to chat about some other factoids.

Kansas City.com’s TV Barn has his take on the arc of the characters:

“What interests me about the human condition — we have this woman who is stripped of her personality and has to rebuild herself from scratch and not only her character, but *every* character is on some level dealing with their identity.”

NJ.com’s got his description of the “actives”:

“It can give you abilities. Not superhuman abilities, but muscle memory is part of a package. You could be conditioned to be a pianist, an assassin, to be great at anything. Just not inhuman.”

Chicago Trib’s The Watcher on the set’s relation to the “actives”:

Like the rest of the “Dollhouse” sets, it had an Asian feel that Whedon told journalists was intentionally spa-like (as he was giving the tour, he said the sets were designed to have a “zen kind of loveliness”). Yet the “actives” were never far from their handlers’ sight.

“No matter how free they feel coming and going from the Dollhouse, in essence, they are completely tracked” within the complex, Whedon said.

MeeVee describes the change in slumber for the Dollhouse:

Every night the five current “actives” wander into the round sleep room and settle into below-floor bed chambers arrayed like spokes of a wheel, each with a plexiglass top that slides over and closes them in. A little too coffin-y for “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” creator Whedon, who ordered some of the stone taken out and some nice soft cushions and fabric put in. But Dushku said that setling in for the night “was like really pleasant, like a kinda weird slumber party.”

THR’s The Live Feed has video of him committing to an online presence:

“We are planning to do a series of webisodes — literally a full season of them,” Whedon says. “We’re planning to do one for every episode produced. Whether we pull that off remains to be seen.”