"Did I fall asleep?"
"Yes you did, for good."
After getting a second season that it didn't remotely deserve, FOX has finally decided to shelve Dollhouse after only airing four episodes. Of course those four episodes demonstrated the painfully obvious, that Dollhouse had not gotten any better and that its ratings were continuing to plummet. In only four episodes Dollhouse managed to lose almost half a million viewers, which would be awful enough of a trend, even if it didn't only have about 2.5 million viewers to begin with in the season opener.
The renewal of Dollhouse accompanied by the cancellation of The Sarah Connor Chronicles, a show with better ratings that were actually improving, better name recognition and pretty much better everything, is one of those baffling things that can only be explained by Kevin Reilly's stupidity, a rabid fanbase for anything with Joss Whedon's name on it which can give some network executives the illusion that the series itself has a fanbase, and yes Eliza Dushku's boyfriend, who happens to run most of FOX's Sunday schedule.
Dollhouse was a disaster before it aired. The show came accompanied with a Don't Cancel Me Petition. Well now the show is cancelled. For good. Unlike Drive, again a much better series on FOX, the network will air the remainder of the Dollhouse episodes it foolishly paid for. Frankly I'd wish they would air the remaining episodes of Drive instead.
Nov 12, 2009
2 comments:
The Sarah Connor Chronicles were created to serve 2 purposes.
First, it was to begin erasing the foul memory of T3 out of the minds of the viewing public. T3 did OK at the box, but its plot left a bad taste with the viewers.
Second, it was to serve as a bridge between the last Terminator film and the next Terminator movie (before it turned out to be Salvation). Unfortunately, with Salvation being even worse than T3, the end result is a perfect disaster. Had Salvation been a big hit, TSCC probably would have been renewed.
Your take on Dollhouse is exactly right; a disaster from the jump. It was a case of Whedon trying to remain relevant, Fox looking for a Wheedon hit, and Dushku trying to avoid becoming a one-note actress (much like Megan Fox). In the end, however, the show had nothing to say of importance, and it failed to entertain anyone not already a fan of Whedon's work. A drop kick of death in any book.
Seems like it was a case of WB trying to push the Terminator brand back into the spotlight with very little coordination between the TV and movie ends of the property.
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