Joss Whedon's Dollhouse Deathwatch: Day One

[james_davis_nicoll]

The Dollhouse series premiere airs tonight on Global at 9.00 et/pt.

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[rimrunner.livejournal.com]

The subject line of this post just made my day.

(Not because I want the show to fail or anything, it just seems kind of inevitable.)

[le-trombone.livejournal.com]

Now now. Just because the other your mind is ours show failed doesn't mean that this one will.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Well. It does feel like a countdown, doesn't it?

I've never been less excited about a show I think might be good.

[seawasp]

What little I've heard about it didn't encourage me to want to see it. I liked Buffy (for the first few seasons) and Firefly, but I'm not sure about this one at all.

[thebitterguy]

Amusingly enough, I had a poll about this last month.

Four weeks, they give it.

[ross-teneyck.livejournal.com]

I note that Fox, true to form, is promoting the back-to-back "Terminator: the Sarah Conner Chronicles" and "Dollhouse" on Friday as: "Hey! Look! Smokin' hot SF babes!"

I still consider myself to be watching T:SCC, where "watching" means "all the episodes from this season are on my Tivo and I really will watch them eventually." I plan to watch "Dollhouse" until Fox kills it or it sucks enough for me to lose interest. I'm betting on Column A.

[fsandow.livejournal.com]

I don't understand why Whedon is going this route again when the results seem so obviously foreordained. Ah well.

Riddle me this: Whedon's style seems to me to be a much better match for HBO and its kin than for the networks. Why isn't he developing his concepts as intensively-plotted 6- or 13-episode series and pitching them to HBO?

[sleary.livejournal.com]

Day 1? You are way behind, my friend. People started the deathwatch the day it was announced that Joss had a new show, started the campaign to save it the day it was announced that Fox would air it, and kicked said campaign into high gear when it was announced that it would air on Friday nights.

I wish I were kidding.

I also wish my DVR had not died during Tuesday night's thunderstorm, so I could watch this tonight instead of waiting for Hulu tomorrow.

[mjlayman.livejournal.com]

The WashPost slammed it.

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

Hmm, pretty much what I expected.

It was well-executed in spots, but so squirm-inducingly unpleasant in several different ways that I don't think it convinced me to watch any more. And the bumpers and promo spots just made it worse.