how sad am i that those idiots at fox are gonna cancel dollhouse? so sad that i couldn't even write about it for four days. so sad that in my haste to find a picture of dollhouse to put on this blog all i could find was this heavily-airbrushed promo picture that completely undermines the intelligence of the actual show itself. so sad that i pulled a "kathleen" and actually wrote a letter of complaint to the fox network like a weird old man writing an angry letter to the noisy bar across the street from his home.
now, this isn't my finest piece of work, i admit, but in the heat of the moment i scribbled this email out on my computer and sent it in without editing, purposefully, because i believe that bad grammar and "twitter"-type punctuation further conveys my anger at the fox network stupidity. but anywhere here's what i wrote:
dammit fox, can't you recognize a good thing when you've got it? here you've got Joss Whedon creating a wonderously clever show in Dollhouse, then you condemn it to friday nights and wonder why it's not getting the ratings you were hoping for? no shit, sherlock. did you notice the dvr ratings, or more specifically, did you notice the huge boost in ratings that Dollhouse got from viewers who record the show to watch it back (over and over again) when they get home from their friday nights out? of course you probably did, but i guess none of that matters when you've got crappy re-runs to air in the friday night death spot instead huh?
nevermind that this has happened to Joss Whedon before with Firefly, but I thought that this time fox would realize what a gem of writing, casting, and intelligence they've got with Dollhouse. perhaps it is not the kind of show that any random viewer can just pick up and watch. but why penalize those of us viewers who actually FOLLOW a show? a show that has a start and an ending point to each season. one with a story-arc that actually makes sense. well, i guess the ironic thing is that now we will have a definate END to the storyline, at least we can be thankful that fox has given Joss enough time to tweek-out an actual series finale. but still, how many times does it have to be reinforced in me that network television does not care about a quality product? it's depressing. who's going to have the guts to stand by a quality show?
here's what they wrote back:
ALL 13 episodes in the 2nd Season will air as promised
DOLLHOUSE will air 2-Hour episodes on FRI 12/4, 12/11 & 12/18 (8-10pm ET/PT) - then return after the holidays on FRI 1/8, 1/15 & 1/22 - to complete the full Season 2 order of 13 episodes!!
We have given the producers enough time to bring closure in the 13th episode.
ASKFOX
obviously that was a bot... and automatic reply message. but it's better than nothing. and that's what i now have to believe. "it's better than nothing."
december will be dollhouse month, with two new episodes each friday and joss whedon will have time to craft out a semi-series ending in the last two episodes (that aren't shot yet) in january. still, i can't help thinking that someone still dropped the ball on this one. sure, dollhouse got a lot of promotion from fox, with their dollhouse/terminator lead-ups, but it all seems kinda empty when you still stick dollhouse in the friday death spot, then pull it completely from november sweeps so it doesn't even get a chance to boost your ratings. i mean, i don't think i've ever seen a dollhouse re-run, wouldn't that help solve all fox's reported problems of people not being able to follow the storyline/characters? i mean, how many reruns of bones have they shown in the last two months? seriously people...
grrr... i'm going to be upset with fox for a LONG time about this one. first firefly, then terminator, now dollhouse. at least i get to watch dollhouse until it's abbreviated ending. plus we still get to see summer glau in her dollhouse episodes, and if watching joss whedon shows has taught me anything, it's that love = pain, and just when the viewers start loving a character, that means it's time to kill them off! haha, so i guess it was a fitting end for dollhouse after all...
(but really not!)
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