Dollhouse

[Ginger Yellow]

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2) More Glau. Hey. There’s a reason they’re called “Summer” movies

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5) More porn.

I can't help but feel Joss has missed a trick here.

[Guest]

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He's just keeping it subtle & classy. And maybe trying to protect us from ourselves.

[linus]

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WornOldMotorbike wrote:

Just watched this for the first time.

Meh.

I really do wish I could get as excited about these sci-fi shows as others do, but I'm astounded at how bad - or just dull - some of them are.

Yep.

[Brandenburger Toro]

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Fuckaroo.

[Ginger Yellow]

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Given that I was worried the show wouldn't be coming back at all in December, I'm not particularly disappointed. There was no way Fox would have given it another season with the ratings it was getting.

[WOM]

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Sorry for you, GY. I gave it three or four chances and just couldn't get into it.

In an aside, what's with the awful 'Hollywood writing' in Toro's link there?

"...on the Eliza Dushku starrer's 11th episode". Starrer? I mean, I get it, but it's awful. And 'laffer'. How about 'sitcom' or 'comedy'. But 'laffer', twice?

[Incandenza]

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WOM, that's just typical Variety style.

Heh heh:

The launch of a new Whedon show is treated in nerddom with the pomp and ceremony of a royal wedding and the build-up to Dollhouse's launch seemed a year long extravaganza of set visits, plot leaks and junketeering. But when Dollhouse finally reached the airwaves, it met very mixed reviews and stumbled to find an audience. Grudgingly, Fox brought it back for a second season, but put it on in a doomed Friday night slot.

The life of a Whedon show is only really a throat-clearing prelude to its afterlife in which the failed show is converted into a modern classic. Whedon's last show, for instance, Firefly was on the air for a mere 14 episodes from 2002 - 2003, but that was enough to fuel a big screen adaptation and eternal worship as the platonic ideal in swashbuckling sci-fi dramas.

But first must come the backlash and out there across the internet can be heard the sound a million geeks posting calls to the barricades to protest Fox's treachery, proving to them once again that commerce is the enemy of art and that something as special as Dollhouse is too good to live in such an imperfect world.

I don't like the nerd/geek name calling, but when a show whose creator has a very strong brand is the lowest-rated show of all of network TV, that's a big problem. I've never watched any of his stuff, but I'm told all the time that he has a big fanbase. If that's the case, then it seems they weren't watching this on TV. I don't doubt that the show might have had a lot of fans watching on the internet, but if that's the case, that's not doing anything to keep a show on network television.

[Ginger Yellow]

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God damn it. I completely reconcile myself to Dollhouse ending, and then it gets awesome again.

[Ginger Yellow]

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So has anyone watched the new episodes yet? I wanna talk spoilers!