Oh happy days (sing it with me y’all) OH HAPPY DAYYYYS

it got renewed. thank the heavens for this amazing miracle. More goodies to come.

The actives’ jobs go deeper as the season progresses, from “simple” escorts or thieves jobs, we enter a deeper mystic realm with resurrection, morality, the human soul, and the action is there too, it was a good show if you ask me (which you don’t :p), from an intellectual and artistic point of vue, i’d renew it but i’m in no position to tell anything, and the numbers have been utterly catastrophic

This of course applies to TSCC as well, what a great show

The survivors of humanity leave in a fleet of spaceships for a distant solar system with terraformable planets. They mournfully call their old home “Earth-That-Was”.

A scientist working for the newly formed Chinese American Alliance finds a damaged Dollhouse imprinter and decides to reverse engineer it, then begins looking through school rosters for suitable test subjects.

Peter Liguori, the chairman of Fox Entertainment, thinks Eliza Dushku still will be a star. Liguori told THR, “This is a business of instincts, and she’s proved she can do it in two projects for us.”

The two projects with Eliza Dushku that Liguori refers to are Tru Calling and a pilot that was in development last season called Nurses, which Dushku stepped in and tried to keep afloat after it changed creative direction. Both of those projects happened before Kevin Reilly stepped in as the new Fox entertainment president, but he’s very much behind the new deal with Eliza Dushku, according to Liguori, who told THR, “Kevin and I think she’s awesome. She’s absolutely charismatic onscreen; she is riveting, she is fresh, she is smart, (and) she is unbelievably feminine while also having that toughness to her. She’s a TV star, but most definitely we know she’s a Fox star.”

The chairman of 20th Century TV, Dana Walden, told THR that Eliza Dushku was at the top of the list of the actresses that they wanted a development deal with. Walden told THR, “First and foremost, she is a remarkably beautiful person inside and out. She is smart and thoughtful, there is soulfulness to her that shines from a mile away, and she is a pleasure to work with. She is also tremendously versatile – she has a great comedic talent and can handle deeply emotional material.” this article is about 2 years ago.
They REALLY want Eliza Dushku to work on some Fox’s project. They love her. a phisical love. they would do everything to keep her on fox. the deal is over in july. the only way they may keep eliza is renuwing dollhouse and let her to sign an other deal. i dont understand ‘nielsen’ ‘rating’ ’share’. but i know dollhouse is a good show, with good actors and plotline. it’s enough to renew a show for a second season, isnt it?

I think that Joss should take his projects to cable networks, the fact that he hasnt done so already given his bad history with FOX shuggests he just wants his shows to have larger audiences/budgets and will compromise his show to do so.

The idea was great and had great potential, it was maybe not done in the best way possible, but had it been perfect, it would still be a hard one to sell to the audience, people like to relax watching TV.

Whatever the issue, it’s nice of Fox to have taken the risk to air it, it was not an easy one

I hope it gets a second shot, even a sort of deus ex machine would fit, or along with TSCC, i’ll be mourning two nice shows in 9 days

If this wasn’t a Whedon show, would people be so passionate in wanting it to return? I don’t think so.

Which “same”? The season started with a woman who appeared to be waking up and wanting to escape from the Dollhouse, midway through she became someone whose newfound sentience was sympathetic and protective of the Dollhouse, and has now, at the end, had the effect of a massive number of simultaneous personality imprints whose consequences have yet to be explored.

I think Whedon has enough talent, and has demonstrated it in this season, to move the show in all kinds of directions. Supposedly the story arc for several years was planned well in advance too, I don’t think we’ve seen anything other than the tip of the iceberg as far as where the show goes.

(And yeah, I’m depressed about that, given the likely low audience figures and thus high cancellation prospects.)

maybe it’ll be clearer when we get the chance to see the real post-apocalyptic finale that won’t be aired. I’m sure it would’ve set up season 2 nicely.

The only part I’m not entirely clear about is why Alpha didn’t simply shoot Echo when he had the gun rather than running from her. Aside from that, most things were cleared up – except for the basic issue of why the Dolls occasionally “go bad” (to use the Terminator phrase for reprogrammed Terminators who revert). It’s clear Echo is still reverting since she said “Caroline” as she went to sleep, not to mention patting Topher (what was that about?).

Also, Ballard isn’t actually working for them, he’s merely made a deal to free “Mellie” in exchange for tracking down Alpha. Since Mark Shepherd blew him off, I guess he feels he has no other option but to continue to function alone. I did think that scene was pretty lame, however. You would have thought Shepherd’s character would have at least wanted a look at Ballard’s Dollhouse. But maybe Ballard figured he would be too egotistical to do so.

It isn’t clear to me where they can take the show from there, other than more of the same. There’s no sign of the overall story arc preceding from the finale. Although Joss Whedon said he didn’t mind burning off his ammo early on since the premise was so rich he could “always reload”. So I suspect he doesn’t have any idea when a season two would go.

One obvious approach would be to concentrate on the corporate motivations of developing this technology and the Dollhouses elsewhere in the world as a conspiracy, as well as continuing the hunt for Alpha. It would be interesting to see if they could do any further character exploration or development of the main characters.

Well, we’ll see tomorrow hopefully whether the finale did decently in the demo. If not, a season 2 is highly unlikely anyway.

In any event, it was nice seeing Eliza in her cleavage and Amy Adams without scars for a change. Dichen had the best lines, though.