DOLLHOUSE RENEWED!!!

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UPDATED: Monday, May 18, 2009 04:53
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KWICKO

Saturday, May 16, 2009 4:51 PM

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Joss tends to start kinda slow and build up through the second and third seasons, so Dollhouse could still turn out to be one hell of a ride.

So, given that the ^ is true, if, given that Firefly started "kinda slow", then what could it have become, eh?

Actually, & so forth

Atlthough it may have long ago jumped the shark, Firefly would have, should have been the television show that made all other television meaningless. Other than that, I've not much of a vested interest.

Exactly. And to be clear, I'm not saying that Firefly started slow - although to be fair, it DID take me until "The Train Job" to get well and truly hooked (the moment Mal kicked Crown into Serenity's engine, my jaw dropped, and I knew I wasn't in for any ordinary TV show if the "good guy" could do THAT!). But if it, like Buffy and Angel, started off and then really gained steam into the second and third seasons, just imagine what could have been in store for us. The mind reels just trying to imagine it...

And it's really only been this realization that actually makes me fairly giddy that Dollhouse might get that chance. And anyone who's read any of my posts about Dollhouse should know that I have NOT been a big fan of it. Well, I was wrong, just flat-out dead wrong, and now I'm definitely invested in the show and can't wait to see where it goes.

Mike

Build a man a fire and he'll be warm for a day...
Set a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.

KWICKO

Saturday, May 16, 2009 4:59 PM

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Supernatural's renewal was announced a month-or-so ago. Season 5 will likely be the end (the writers had a 5-year-arc planned, so they're on schedule).

Thanks for that bit of news, Cyber. That IS good to hear.

And I'm okay with Supernatural ending after a five-year run. I like to see my favorite shows go seven seasons, but I've noticed that a lot of the time (Gilmore Girls, Buffy, The West Wing, The Shield), the sixth season tends to feel more like "filler", and they don't really seem to get back on track to winding things up until the seventh season. In fairness, all of those shows had "issues" in their sixth seasons that threw things off a bit (Gilmore Girls lost their creators, the Palladinos, in S6, but they came back for S7 if memory serves; Buffy was really supposed to end at S5, and was brought back to jump-start UPN, so it wasn't really thought out that well going into it, and they covered pretty nicely; The West Wing ditched creator Aaron Sorkin after his marijuana arrest, and only brought him back for the final season, and the writing clearly lost much of its snap without him there; and The Shield suffered, like so many other shows, because of the writers' strike). All of them seemed to rebound for the final seasons, though.

I can definitely see Supernatural wrapping things up, and if they decide to do made-for-TV movies or direct-to-DVD movies, I'll be interested. Supernatural, in many ways, just feels to me like a kind of continuation of the Buffyverse. I'm hoping for a really bang-up final season, and I have no doubts they'll deliver.

Let's hope Fringe, Chuck, and Dollhouse get the same longevity.

Mike

Build a man a fire and he'll be warm for a day...
Set a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.

WHOZIT

Saturday, May 16, 2009 6:12 PM

"SCRUBS" has been renewed also, which is fine with me but I thought this was it's final season ever? Zack Braff was suppose to become a Producer/Director.

CUDA77

Monday, May 18, 2009 1:35 AM

So damn happy to hear it got renewed.

SHINYGOODGUY

Monday, May 18, 2009 4:53 AM

I said from the beginning that you needed patience when it came to Dollhouse. But, to be fair, I thought most of the early eps could have been better.

Renewed, whoopdeedoo!

Personally I think Fox really didn't want to make the same mistake they made with Firefly, that is prematurely cancellation (ooops, I hate when that happens). From all indications, I believe it was the DVR and Hulu numbers that saved the show - uptick of 40% is nothing to sneeze at. Somehow a deal was struck to give it another season, so we need strong numbers in the fall for future seasons.

In order to get our Firefly back, or another BDM, Joss needs to kick ass in the ratings dept. So here's to a great season of Dollhouse.

I know, I'm dreaming, but stranger things have happened.

The ever hopeful SGG

Tawabawho?

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