#310 - epitath

dammit fox, wtf? did you enjoy messing with dollhouse just for kicks and giggles? how much more royal-ly could you have screwed that series? at least it was a fitting end to a great show, a series finale that obviously left way more story to tell than was possible in an abbreviated season (nevermind an abbreviated series). but, i think joss whedon did a great job providing enough material to bring things to a close, while opening up a multitude of back-story to let the viewers extrapolate a story as a back-handed ribbing to the network that there was so much more quality left in this show.

so for those of you who watched the series finale, wasn't it awesome!? and those of you who watched it and had no clue what was going on, well, sorry, but this one wasn't for you. this series finale was for people who not only followed the series on tv but also followed it beyond the [idiotic] fox network because this episode was "epitath two," and made absolutely NO sense at all unless you saw "epitath one," which was not aired by fox (it was on the season 1 dvd). which is really too bad because it was a GREAT epilogue for the events of the season and the penultimate episode of season 2... which just goes to show (even more so) how great of a storyteller joss whedon and the other writers of this show are/were. i'm really disappointed that the rest of this story will never get told, and i'm even more disappointed that it'll never get told with magnificently beautiful shots of eliza dushku and the other pretty pretty people on this show. what a waste.

but, all in all, it was a fitting end to this show, and now i don't have to worry about fox's treatment of it and can just look forward to the dvd. one more awesome joss whedon show goes down for the count... at least one thing i can look forward to, those awesome joss whedon actors coming back for his next project! i love how he uses a lot of the same actors (because they're awesome) for bits and parts on his other shows. i mean, just from dollhouse we got eliza dushku (buffy), amy acker (angel), alexis denisoff (buffy), alan tudyk (firefly), summer glau (firefly), even felicia day (buffy). i really want to see more of dichen lachman (she played sierra), i hope she's on another one of his shows in the future. sigh... until then i'll just have to wait for season 2 on dvd!