Lords of Kobol, hear my prayer...

So, the reaction to Friday's Dollhouse is quite simple: shit just got real, Joss did his amazing magnificent bastard effect, mindfrakking ensued and thus fans brains s'ploded everywhere. Coherent thoughts were inactive for some time after that. But now, having the chance to rewatch the episode, I have actually formulated a proper coherent review, with my own theories and thoughts and speculations for what happened.

( Relax, I'm not a thief...I'm a terrorist. )

It makes me sad that this show has been canceled. It's not a masterpiece by any means, but it has so much amazing potential and the possibilities are endless, and had FOX trusted Joss enough to allow him to take full control of this project we would've had this instead of what they started off with. That is just depressing, because it could have been amazing except for the network intervening, and this statement by them just pisses me off:

“We committed to thirteen episodes,” admits Reilly. “We told Joss going in, we’re going to air these. For whatever good moves we made in the fall. Friday isn’t the finest move of the night. Back to the drawing board on Friday’s. [DOLLHOUSE] is a good show, it had a run, but obviously, that’s that.” (Source)

"That's that", really? I want to believe that they trusted the project, and I am grateful to have had two seasons instead of a premature run, but when it comes right down to it the network seemed to not really care either way what happened. Promoting the show poorly, and rather incorrectly which is ironic in itself since the show is about the morality of exploitation behind massive corporations, and it just royally pisses me off that after everything FOX hasn't learned anything about their advertisement strategies and making room for at least attempting to get the show noticed by their audience. I understand that it's a business move, poor ratings means nobody is watching, but obviously to them, and most networks sometimes, quantity > quality. This is why you see long-running shows that are just so horrible and stupid and the more worthwhile, better quality shows are left out in the dirt to suffer unknown or doomed fates.

Obviously, with the exception of Fringe, science fiction is not the demographic for the FOX network. I kinda wished they had paired Dollhouse with that show, because it would have gotten more attention to those interested in such a genre. That would have been a smart move, but alas FOX isn't known for being smart.

My entire sleep schedule is all fucked up. For the last two days I've spent nearly the entire day, waking up just shy of a few hours before my regular bedtime would normally be. I'm not getting sick, that I know for sure, the only other indicator would be getting on my period but it doesn't usually call for sleeping hours of the day. So I have no idea what is going on with me. Or if it's just my body saying "HEY YOU GOTTA GET MORE SLEEP!" But I don't know.

ohbooth, trinaweena and fresleyforever, I received your Christmas cards! Awww, ilu guys, you're so sweet. ♥

By the way, I'm going to be sending cards out shortly. I haven't had time to because of some real life stuff and what I said above about my outta-whack sleep schedule which has placed me in this lethargic mode. But hopefully they'll be sent out and get to all those who gave me your addresses in time before Christmas. Don't worry!

I missed Dollhouse last night, mainly because I slept through it. But I downloaded the two episodes and here are my thoughts:

( UM EPIC SHIT JUST GOT EPIC, Y'ALL )

God, I love this show.

Also, does anyone else think that Alan Tudyk could have been an excellent Lucifer? It's the suit from the episode, for some reason I see him either being a very fashionable and slightly off-his-rocker demon or Lucifer. Hmmm. What about a Lucifer and Alpha confrontation? Oh, I like that idea. SOMEONE GIVE ME CROSSOVER FIC ASAP OF THIS! ;D

I really do miss doing these reviews, so frakking much. Oh summer hiatus, why must you be so slow?

( Kids playing with matches, and they burnt the house down. )

I love this show, seriously. While this episode was unaired it will be screened at this year's Comic Con, for all that are going to the Dollhouse panel. There has been some talk that FOX might also be airing it after all, though it's unclear about when and where or if this is actually true at all. Either way, this episode really adds more of the mythology into focus for all those that stopped watching way too earlier into the season. So if you haven't yet, download the episode and watch for yourself. Same with the unaired pilot, too. All I can say is, this is pure Joss Whedon, through and through.

( The Prince had finally rescued the Princess from the deep sleep... )

People need to start watching this show. Either start watching in real time or to Fox.com or Hulu or whatever, don't just download elsewhere because I think that's the main problem. Many people think that it's just their fan reactions but it's not, FOX is big on statistics and if the ratings aren't up to par with those expectations they will pull the plug regardless of a growing fanbase and positive critic responses. But the ratings systems fails in general, so heh.

I am now off to finish up some schoolwork that I need to get done with.

( We all have our needs, we all have our secrets )

Two weeks without Dollhouse? Blasphemy! Let's hope people will remember to watch it when it returns. That's the fear I have sometimes, that if there's a prolonged hiatus sometimes people won't pay attention to dates and times and will bypass it completely.

Must go watch TSCC because I accidentally missed it by over-napping this evening, as it's the season (and hopefully not series) finale.