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That's It, You're All Going To The Attic
When Blog Democracy Goes Bad
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Thu Dec 10
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But I'm not getting my hopes up. Sad that I became so invested in the show so quickly, and now I will be doomed to wander the wasteland that television, post BSG, has become (for me).
04/13/09
I'm with you in that wasteland, too. I'm watching several shows now, but it's only for light entertainment. There's nothing on now that I feel passionate about, or that really interests or excites me, though Dollhouse is really getting there. I think BSG has spoiled me for television!
04/12/09
I could care deeply about these characters regardless of their backstories and motivations. I often get really invested in evil characters, even if I'm rooting for them to fail (And don't get me stared on the ones I love to hate!). But I can't connect to and be interested in these characters until you TELL ME WHO THEY ARE! It was driving me nuts! And now that all that information is starting to surface, I'm suddenly a lot more interested. I think the show is really great now that I've been able to click with it. But if it had done that right off the bat, I think a lot more viewers would have been more interested and impressed.
I don't see the show as morally grey. I see it as pretty morally black and white. It's just that we don't yet have enough information to tell which is which.
04/12/09
In response to the crisis, President Obama orders new productions with old teleplays, beginning with Bonanza and Gunsmoke. It is not until 2065 that new shows are produced, using scripts picked up from radio broadcasts from the planet Omnicrom 7.
04/12/09
Maybe killing "Dollhouse" will sate the execs' blood lust and they'll let TSCC live?
04/12/09
Serenity was also awful, ruining the story for several characters (book, River, in fact pretty much everyone else) relying on hackneyed writing like killing off two characters in a cheap attempt to jolt fan's emotion - including copying the scene of Trinity's death in Matrix Revolution for Walsh.
People had VERY mixed feelings of FireFly before it got canceled and became the 'Jimmy Dean' of sci-fi.
Angel's first season why awful.. monster of week, Angel-as-Batman, was Joss's idea. Angel got great with *tim minear* and *David Greenwalt*, David Fury and others took over and made it their own. Why do people above say that Buffy got better after the first season? The first season is true Joss, afterwards other writers we brought in.
What we liked in Buffy, Angel was the result of a team of writers. Joss himself is that Rosanne write that got lucky when the WB took off.
Fangirls will also point out Toy Story as a joss wheadon oeuvre, it's John Lasseter's creation, joss was just the typist and dialog editor. Toy Story was carefully created and storyboarded by the creative team at Pixar.
Fox will come out as the bad guy here again, but I doubt that Dollhouse will become a cult hit on DVD. I think the Buffer-rebound effect has worned off, and when you think about it, none of the characters have the kind of back stories the FireFly ones had. it's only the House itself that has backstory of interest.
It's a complete fanwank that there is a magic episode of Dollhouse that Evil Corporate Forces won't let people see which would change everyone's feeling about the show.
04/12/09
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Been sitting on Topher's chair lately?
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And all they did was give him millions and millions of dollars and a slot in prime time. Those bastards!
04/12/09
I mean why should we whine about a previous track record that Joss has with fox or fox's inability to see any shows true potential and cancel them because of their penny pinching ways. Yeah how dare we.
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04/12/09
Listen, it's nice how you think you know how it went down, but it's obvious we all disagree.
Please stop spouting your opinion as truth and getting disappointed when we don't take your word for it.
Sincerely written in vain,
blah blah blah
04/12/09
The premise is pornographically juvenile, Eliza Dushku isn't up to the acting challenge, and I've heard better dialog in the bathroom of an early 80s punk club. They may have been trying for "morally ambiguous" but all they've really achieved is morally repugnant. Am I really supposed to feel anything like sympathy for self-serving, high-tech mind control pimps?
I don't know if Joss or Fox is more to blame but after watching every single episode I no longer care. Dollhouse is a failure on almost every level and it needs to go away.
04/12/09
I'm going to miss Enver/Victor most of all. Hopefully someone, somewhere was watching and picked up the fact that this guy left all the other Dolls in his wake, acting-wise. If this had been the Victor and Sierra show, I'd be invested. The Glossy Sex Traffickers show? Eh, not so much.
03/02/09
03/01/09
Not really. It's more that, unlike some io9 weekend editors I could mention, I was just a little too young for Baker's run.
03/02/09
And if you can, go back and watch Troughton and Pertwee too.
03/01/09
I think the best example of this is the recent Spider-Man/Mephisto "With Great Power comes NO Responsibility" One More Day story. I remember looking through the forums and such, hearing from friends and everything about how pissed they were at what they did. As a Spidey fan myself, I personally thought it was sad and disgraceful and stupid, although I've thought that since The Other arc and on. However, the One More Day thing was far, far worse.
Anyway, getting to my point, after the One More Day arc and ALL the complaining about it, people still kept collecting Spider-Man comics. Comics cost money, and they're not getting any cheaper either. Like with Comics, some people still cling to the hope that Heroes will get better.
Haha, I mean at least Heroes is free. That's why I would vote to keep reviewing it. In the long run, the only thing it's costing you is 40-50 minutes of your time.
BTW, love the Batman: Brave & The Bold reviews.
03/02/09
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03/01/09
While we're on the topic of recaps, could Lynn try focusing more on recaping the eps of Lost, and less on injecting her own personal off topic opinions in them? I'm thrilled she feels so strongly about non relevant things, but asking bloggers to stay on task isn't expecting too much. At least I hope it isn't.
03/01/09
You, sir/madam, are on a Science Fiction blog. A website about, no, *dedicated*, to things that do not matter. So criticizing the write ups for not staying on topic is like being mad at a magician for doing too many card tricks and not enough hat tricks. I mean, they're just writing it as they see it, and presumably they're good enough at it to do it for a living.
03/02/09
So what you're saying is, it's totally cool if a person writing a restaurant review totally went off topic for half the review, and railed against the mistreatment of livestock in Zimbabwe? Or how about a movie critic going off on some rant about Roman Polanski's pedophile past for two paragraphs in their review of "The Pianist?"
03/02/09
Honestly, if anything, I find Lynn's recent recaps to be too straight-forward. "This happened; that happened." And not nearly as meta/tangential as Annalee's. Which is too bad, because Lynn's other writing and opinions are some of my favorites of any writer anywhere in Gawker media.
I don't come to io9 for dry news or straight recitations. I come for interesting takes and its own unique brand of analysis.
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