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From the creator of Firefly, another series cancelled before the first season's even aired! A FOX tradition.
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It seems like it's been doomed from the start with all the rewrites and reshoots the studio's asked for. Whedon tried to play it down, but it looks like Fox just doesn't have much faith in the series, or at the very least, they don't have the same vision of it that Whedon did. He must be fuming.
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Well, look on the plus side. It won't be in the death slot for long. They'll want to move it around without warning... maybe air the episodes out of order... you know, that sort of thing.
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quote:Originally posted by Aban Rune: Great... I may actually have to start reading.
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Welcome to my like- no television and loving it, baby! I recently visited my grandma for a few days and watched some tv at her house: I find I'm missing nothing.
I spend a lot on books though- my local library has a lot but there's just something about owning a book that's so much more appealing.
I'll watch the Dollhouse on DVD after the series is cancelled and fans lament loudly about what could have been....just like I did with Firefly.
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There's been a lot of back and forth on it. I think once he re-wrote it he was quite happy with it, but the studio weren't, so they ended up having to reshoot a lot and plonk in more action.
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Let's see... the Firefly pilot had Summer Glau in the buff, Morena Baccaran *bathing herself*, giant guns, cool ship FX, and a horse getting shot... and they still didn't air it.
I blame the network over Whedon. Forever. On everything.
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Aban, I think Johnny and Sol are referring to the Dollhouse pilot.
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But Aban's comment is still valid whichever show's pilot he thought you were talking about. "The Train Job" is a good contender for the worst episode of Firefly, but they still chose it to introduce the show in preference to the Pilot, which was much better. That should tell you a lot about either the network's critical faculties, or their sheer cynicism (if it was a calculated move to help kill off a show they had already decided they didn't want anymore), or both.
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Yah, my point was, no matter what Whedon does to legitimately make a show better, the network will always screw it up. He produced a brilliant episode in "Serenity" which they never aired even though it had all the stuff in it that you'd think networks would want to see. Explosions. Naked women. Dead horses... Then they made him write "Train Job" which he did the best he could with, but still wasn't as good and left some problems for the ongoing series.
I always wondered: how was anyone supposed to have ever found out how Simon, River and Book got on the ship? We got everyone else's back story in "Out of Gas". Did that not ever occur to the network? Or would they have eventually made him write a flashback ep. that essentially retold the pilot?
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