Damn you Fox!
Dollhouse got renewed?! WTF? I love Joss. I own the “Joss Whedon is my master now” t-shirt. I stalked him at two consecutive Comic-Con’s to get his autograph, but I don’t get it. Elisha Dusku is not that good an actress to carry off this show. She does fine as the ass kicking, bad girl, but ask her to get vulnerable and it all goes to crap. When you add Topher being a douche, erratic writing, Helo not being naked nearly enough and the fact that they have kind of worked themselves into a corner, why renew it now? Firefly was 100 times the show that this one is. Why Fox, why? The only way to redeem yourselves at this time is to give Amy Acker more screen time, have Helo be naked ALWAYS and bring back Wash, because he was a hoot.
They what does Fox do as an encore? They cancel Sarah Conner. Bastards! I loved that show. As much as I was meh about Dollhouse I raved about Terminator. Sure John was a wimpy sap, and the girlfriend plot dragged on way too long (RIP Ripley, I won’t miss you), but the performance that BAG turned in every week knocked my socks off, and there were some tightly written scripts. (We will have to forgive them for the Sarah goes to the sleep clinic episode, because my God, did that suck, but overall it had much better quality than the Dolls week to week.)
I guess I can take some consolation from Better off Ted getting a pick up, because I found the show charming. I’m thrilled about Chuck (even though it is only for 13 episodes). Adam Baldwin looks like he is having a great time and it is so nice to have him on my TV regularly. Plus, I love the show and always found it smart, involving TV.
I also am happy about Castle’s pick up. The first episode I didn’t think Nathan and the girl had much chemistry, but they worked that out (I mean, who couldn’t spark with Nathan? It’s not even possible) and I love his relationship with his daughter. The cast is uniformly good and even though the mysteries are paper thin, Nathan is wonderful fun to watch chew up the scenery. And rounding out the Joss alumni who had a good day, congrats to David B for a two season pick up of Bones. Wee!! Just think of the fun they will have dragging out Angela and Jack and finding ways to torment the revolving assistants. I, for one, can’t wait. However, there had better be mea culpa’s for yet another weak season finale. Christ, what a cop out.
So anyway, mostly I am happy about the new slates. I wish Terminator at least had gotten a 6 hour movie wrap up, that we could trade in Dollhouse for another season of Firefly and that my Without a Trace hangs in there. What? A girl can dream.
They what does Fox do as an encore? They cancel Sarah Conner. Bastards! I loved that show. As much as I was meh about Dollhouse I raved about Terminator. Sure John was a wimpy sap, and the girlfriend plot dragged on way too long (RIP Ripley, I won’t miss you), but the performance that BAG turned in every week knocked my socks off, and there were some tightly written scripts. (We will have to forgive them for the Sarah goes to the sleep clinic episode, because my God, did that suck, but overall it had much better quality than the Dolls week to week.)
I guess I can take some consolation from Better off Ted getting a pick up, because I found the show charming. I’m thrilled about Chuck (even though it is only for 13 episodes). Adam Baldwin looks like he is having a great time and it is so nice to have him on my TV regularly. Plus, I love the show and always found it smart, involving TV.
I also am happy about Castle’s pick up. The first episode I didn’t think Nathan and the girl had much chemistry, but they worked that out (I mean, who couldn’t spark with Nathan? It’s not even possible) and I love his relationship with his daughter. The cast is uniformly good and even though the mysteries are paper thin, Nathan is wonderful fun to watch chew up the scenery. And rounding out the Joss alumni who had a good day, congrats to David B for a two season pick up of Bones. Wee!! Just think of the fun they will have dragging out Angela and Jack and finding ways to torment the revolving assistants. I, for one, can’t wait. However, there had better be mea culpa’s for yet another weak season finale. Christ, what a cop out.
So anyway, mostly I am happy about the new slates. I wish Terminator at least had gotten a 6 hour movie wrap up, that we could trade in Dollhouse for another season of Firefly and that my Without a Trace hangs in there. What? A girl can dream.