Yesterday we brought you news that Fox has decided to pull “Dollhouse” for the November sweeps period.
We’ll have a lot of great information on the current season and Fox’s decision to run the entire run of episodes on tomorrow’s Slice of SciFi.
But while you wait for that, here’s what series creator Joss Whedon had to say about the delay.
“Howzabout that schedule? Well, I’m not as depressed as everyone else. We weren’t about to rock sweeps anyway, and though there’s a chilly November, December is CRAZY. It’s like an Advent calendar of episodes! We get November to try to spread the word (which I’ll be leaning on Fox to do, though it’s hard to imagine them doing as good a job as the WhyIWatch guy) and then December is pure gluttony. Plus the episodes line up extremely well in these pairs, and we’ll have an absurdly appropriate lead-in,” Whedon wrote over at Whedonesque. “Back to breaking Tim’s [Minear] episode. Keep the faith, peeps. I’ll bring you news (and hopefully a little humor, I mean would it kill me to punch these up a little?) when I can. -j joss.”
Well, at least Joss has a good sense of humor about these things….
I could say “things look grim”, but that’s kinda like saying “Hitler was mean” or “Firefly was good”.
Is it too early to start a Heroes vs. Dollhouse death pool?
“Heroes vs.Dollhouse death pool” LOL
Some of these shows have done it to themselves. Heroes is a writer problem….snooze boring.
And sometimes the networks are to blame…Fox never should have chosen Dollhouse over Terminator.
“Some of these shows have done it to themselves. Heroes is a writer problem….snooze boring.”
Oh, I don’t know. “Heroes” seems to be finding its footing again this season, although it’s still not as good as Season 1 and 2.
“And sometimes the networks are to blame…Fox never should have chosen Dollhouse over Terminator.”
I’m not even sure what to say to that. You should have included “Terminator” in your previous quote. When you compare the series to the movies, it’s a complete embarrassment. The creators of it obviously sabotaged their own show. Why else would there be so many pointless and boring episodes instead of the suspenseful ones they should have had. Ugh. I always imagine what the series could have been. What a waste.
I don’t know about you, Kyle Nin, but I found Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles much more enjoyable than the last two Terminator movies.
I dunno, somehow this sounds to me like someone at FOX didn’t want Dollhouse to get renewed, but got overruled, so instead they’re jacking with the scheduling in the hopes of tanking the ratings and making a case for early cancellation. My main concern is this may end up driving Joss out of traditional TV for good — but then again, seeing he proved how successful an Internet delivery method could be with the success of Dr. Horrible, that may not be such a bad thing after all. Personally, I wouldn’t mind paying a reasonable subscription fee to get a regularly-produced Joss project online, where he wouldn’t be constrained by BS network politics & restrictions.
“I found Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles much more enjoyable than the last two Terminator movies.”
This is me looking oddly at you.
I don’t know how anyone could pass up action-filled entertainment for … well … that.
But I’ve noticed that quite a few people have had the same reaction to “TSCC” as you and that disturbs me greatly. It wasn’t all bad, but there were far too many mediocre episodes on there to call it anything other than a mediocre series.
And I’m not surprised in the slightest that it got canceled. In fact, I was more surprised that it got a second season. Too bad they didn’t take advantage of it.
I am outraged. We only get 12 episodes a season and we were promised the first episode for Summer Glau next week. The original add said: In three weeks she joins. Now she wont appear till December. We have to wait till December for more! This is ridiculous and Fox are a bunch of ideas. This show will loose its week to week following (as in not the die hard fans just the general watcher) because they will loose interest waiting for the show to return. I am deeply upset by this and am not afraid to show it.
*Idiots not ideas- sorry lack of sleep.
Dollhouse hasn’t bee the strongest show, but the episode from 10/22/09 was by far the strongest of the series today and if your going to take a month off better to do it on the high note rather than the low notes that have been the rest of this season so far. I’m hopeful that going forward the show will get stronger otherwise it deserves its fate.
I’m glad they chose Dollhouse over TSCC. I wanted to like/love that show so much but it fell very short in it’s second season. It felt like they didn’t have enough material to fill out all the episodes. They stretched it,and as a result, they got a show with some interesting ideas and a great cast, but not much suspense or thrust forward in it’s wriitng. I mean Lena Headey was a spot on choice for Sara Connor.
As for that last Terminator moive. Gosh geezz, that movie was just like the TV series, lots of good ideas but the execution wasn’t so hot. The action scenes were great but the story had a massive plot hole that they didn’t find a way around.
Finally, I hope Dollhouse gets a thrid season. I feel like season 2 is getting better and better as we go and it’s just getting to all the good stuff. But if there isn’t a 3rd season Joss made a fitting epilogue in the unaired 13th episode of season 1. That is by far my favorite episode so far.
-“Booohoooo! My show was better than yours but got cancelled!!!! Your show is much worst but got renewed!”
-“No, my show is way better than yours and yours sucked!!!”
WTF??? With such an attitude in between scifi fans, I guess all you are worthed of is a schedule filled with reality shows 24/7/360 + 5 days of old Christmass movies reruns. Duh!!!