Comments on: Fox takes down the Dollhouse, not Ballard and Caroline

By: sudobeer

sudobeer — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 00:37:52 +0000

oooh “lame brain” that hurts!! thats not name calling.

By: elizawhat

elizawhat — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 00:36:10 +0000

I completely agree with you that Eliza has a huge range, but please keep the namecalling out of this. sudobeer is my buddy. We’re all allowed to have our own opinions.

I hope that Time Warner does drop them. I love how they air those commercials saying, “Please help us,” yet ignore their viewers pleas to “please help” keep Dollhouse going. Fuckers. (Namecalling is cool if we’re mocking FOX. )

By: Katherine Galindo

Katherine Galindo — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 14:53:36 +0000

To the lame brain that said Eliza has no range… are you insane? She played so many different roles on Dollhouse, and she played many of them at once! She is one kick ass actress, and I almost wish Time Warner would drop Fox now that Dollhouse is gone… I mean what kind of network keeps a crap show like 24.. ooooh terrorists AGAIN! and kicks Dollhouse to the curb? Without Dollhouse, channel 5 is not in my line up. Silver lining.. at least they’re airing the finale.. unlike Tru Calling.. just when it’s getting good….slice goes the axe…

By: elizawhat

elizawhat — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:48:22 +0000

I disagree. I thought she’s very versatile, and I love that this show is giving her the opportunity to play roles other than wayward Slayer and punk ass cheerleader.

By: sudobeer

sudobeer — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:19:37 +0000

yeah i don’t think it’ll be picked up by another network. when the news broke, syfy said they had no intentions of picking it up.

it was a pretty ok show, but week after week, it really did showcase that eliza dushku doesn’t have any range as an actor. i loved the episodes that focused more on other characters

By: elizawhat

elizawhat — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:09:37 +0000

I’m trying to figure out where I fit in here: true geek, or mainstream geek. I’m gonna go with the first, because I code websites by hand. And Topher is one of my favorite characters.

And I must be a basement geek, because I thought CBS still was an old folks station…

By: Tad

Tad — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:39:31 +0000

The other thing, though, is that Friday night has been, for at least a decade, the designated slot for sci-fi and other geek stuff. Even Ghost Whisperer and Numbers fit that category– fantasy and math detectives. The networks figure that geeks and nerds and mouth breathers are the only ones who watch such stuff, and since they have no social lives, they can watch Friday prime time from their televisions in their mother’s basements.

The problem with such logic, however, is that a) mainstream tastes have, in the last five to ten years, gone MUCH geekier, and b) those who might actually fit the stereotype are FAR more likely to watch via HULU, torrents, iTunes, DVR, etc.

(Which relates to another gripe of mine– CBS has lost its old-folks demographic, but they still think like their audience is old. Seriously– The Big Bang Theory, one of the geekiest– and one of the best– sitcoms on television today, is unavailable in ANY legal digital form. Not on iTunes, not on Amazon, not via CBS.com. At that point, the show is losing numbers because real viewers can’t be counted, because they’re being forced to download illegally. DUMB.)