New Dollhouse Trailer
Joss Whedon’s new show, Dollhouse, has been having a few small issues recently, namely reshooting the pilot and rearranging the air dates of episodes, but that hasn’t stopped them from releasing a new trailer for the show:
I wonder how much the show will focus on the ‘personality of the week’ aspect versus the ‘soul underlying it all’ aspect they touch on here. I like the premise here, sort of a Kiln People vibe, although with one ‘blank’ being overwritten continuously instead of a bunch of copies being made. Delving into the lives of the people who would make the conscious choice to become a ‘rewritable’ personality holds some interesting promise, but even more interesting, and what the show may be going as hinted in the trailer, is what happens if part of the personality makes through each wipe? What type of person would they become? How would they cope? Which actually sounds like My Own Worst Enemy, but probably written better. And I hope the SF elements are there from the start, and played up, so all the SF haters can see just how good SF can be (I’m looking at you, ‘SF in LOST?!’ haters).
I can’t say that I am psyched up for the show, but I am intrigued. And since it’s Fox pairing with Whedon again, who knows how much jerking around the show will have to endure. But set your DVRs for January when the show debuts.
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Let’s see…Fox? CHECK! Reshooting pilot? CHECK! Shuffling episodes? CHECK!
We’re gonna party like it’s Firefly all over again!
Fox has reshuffled its new year’s schedule to make room for its juggernaut American Idol. House will be moved to Monday nights at 8:00 p.m., and the ailing Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles will be moved out of that slot and into a last ditch 8:00 p.m. Friday night slot. And in the 9:00 p.m. Friday night slot following it will be: Dollhouse, premiering in February during sweeps. On the one hand, it makes a slight amount of sense to pair the two dystopia SF shows together, and House, a hit show for Fox, couldn’t be exiled to the weekend. But on the bigger hand, it shows that Fox’s commitment to Dollhouse is greatly lacking, as Whedon fans feared it would be despite lots of promises, and that Fox assumes — with the brilliantly stupid mentality of television that it must still be 1982 — that the audience for both shows is mainly young males who can’t get dates and so will happily spend Friday nights drooling over Summer Glau and Eliza Dashku. I am so tired of this, watching networks treat SF shows as necessary lepers that are only worth being on their schedules as jiggle t.v. Cheesecake photo shoots of the Battlestar Galactica actresses, the star of Fringe having to wear plunging V-neck hooker sweaters that show off her boobs while she pretends to be an F.B.I. agent, etc. Apparently they thought that Buffy was just Beverly Hills 90210 with vampires.
Dollhouse still has a shot, if it lives up to its promise, of doing well enough on lower pressure Friday nights to be moved to a better slot next season. But I don’t get why Fox is bothering to do sci-fi shows when they have no interest in launching them properly.