Dollhouse cancelled after 13!

[RoJoHen]

It's funny, but the comma bothers me.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

That it got more episodes than Firefly makes me sad. Still sorry to see it go.

Hopefully, if Joss ever dares to have yet another go, he can come up with something a bit better.

Temis said it best when she said that part of the problem is that the show was just basically a wank-fest for all of his little creative fetishes. Victimizing women by pretending to empower them. Preaching angsty nihilism by pretending it's heroism. People eventually wised up to his act.

If he does another show, it's got to be free of all of his fetishes or at least watered down considerably. Those two themes may play well to nerds and teenagers(his core base), but they hold little appeal to main stream audiences. He needs to find other things to write about other then rape-victim action stars and manic depressive superheros.

Or he needs to come up with new and better fetishes. Some of the best stuff I've ever read or seen came from a writer working out some really twisted shit. Whedon's neuroses are too commonplace and boring. In fact, you'd think they would appeal to mainstream audiences on that basis.

This reminds me of the thing I could never stand about JMS - he had a neurotic tic about creating contemptible, weasly, weak villains so his heroes could look all the better when they thwack them. Completely frakkin' manipulative. But at least JMS didn't base a show's premise on that. Well maybe he did - the Shadows and Vorlons sure turned out to be weaklings in the end...

Well, when they fold this thing I'll once again be watching nothing with any regularity other than CNN.

There's always SGU.

At least this frees Alan Tudyk up to appear more regularly on V. And talk about a bourgeois show (V for Vanilla) that could use some really frakked-up fetishes driving the writing. Tudyk may be our only hope.

 

[Neroon]

This made me laugh a lot

Perfect! Now see if you can make one with his V persona......

 

[Awesome Possum]

I already have one.

 

[DarKush]

I'm surprised that this show even got a second season. Sarah Connor was much better and had a strong foundation to go multiple seasons than DH. DH always felt too high concept for me. It might've made a good movie or miniseries. Perhaps a kickass comic book, but I didn't think the conceit could work stretched over years.

Also, I don't know if it was Dushku's performance or the way the character was written, but I just never took to Echo. It didn't help that she had different personalities every show and we never got enough of the 'real' her, or the person she used to be. When she didn't have a persona she and the other dolls walked around in a daze. Though I did like some of the pajama action. Even though Sierra suffered from the same limitations, I found something more engaging about that character and actress.

I wonder if it would've been better to change the show where they are adding and removing particularly skill sets, and not a complete personality wipe.

Anyway, I started losing interest after the first show. I just didn't get why someone would spend tons of money to hire the DH for prostitutes or whatever, when they could just actually get a prostitute or a mercenary or a person for whatever they needed, and perhaps much cheaper.

The show did have some of my genre favs on it so I'm sad for them, but overall I didn't DH was that good of a show. Dushku's sex appeal can only go so far. I do hope she finds a hit series one day though.

 

[Forbin]

The "real" Caroline was a twit. Echo actually has a better personality, wiped, than the real Caroline we met freeing lab rats.