Epitaph One

So, what could possibly go wrong? Oh.
“Epitaph One”, the unaired, so-called “thirteenth” (it was really the fourteenth), “lost” (I think Joss pretty much knew where it was) episode of Dollhouse, has, you will be shocked and astounded to learn, been somewhat overhyped. In other words, not the greatest hour of television ever made by anyone [...]

DHDVD

So Amazon tells me the Dollhouse Season 1 DVDs I preordered are on their way. Excellent! I’m eagerly anticipating “Epitaph One”, the so-called 13th episode (really 14th, counting the scrapped pilot which also is on the DVD set) which was not broadcast. Apparently it really brought the house down at ComicCon.
Word to those who didn’t [...]

If only…

… I’d kept my mouth shut on 11 May and let my comments of 16 April stand, I’d be looking like a frakking genius right now. Oh well.
Word is the price of renewal is a drastically lowered budget. May be cause to worry there. Then again some of Whedon’s best work (“Out of Gas”, “Dr. [...]

Astonishing development

Fox fails to suck.
(Unofficially. According to unnamed sources.)
Alert the media.  Wait, never mind, they are the media.

Omegod

I watched “Omega” today, the season finale of “Dollhouse”. Nice. Alan Tudyk managed to be both creepy and amusing as Alpha. We get Saunders’s backstory, and the bitterness we’ve seen bits of comes out front and center. “Omega” wraps up the season well, while leaving some questions unanswered; no cliffhanger, but I want more. Ballard [...]

Crimson Dark

There was a time when I subscribed to both Syracuse newspapers (one of which has since folded) in part to get all the comic strips, but I don’t really read comic strips any more. I have in the past couple years read two, but only two, online comics, “xkcd” and “Questionable Content“; they’re the only [...]

I join the chorus

I may be coming in a few bars late, but I can sing along as well as the next man (with a little help from Zed).
You may, or may not, have liked Joss Whedon’s earlier work — “Buffy”, “Angel”, “Firefly”, “Doctor Horrible”. You may or may not have heard about his new series, “Dollhouse”. You [...]

More Known Space

Back during my science fiction formative years, the series that perhaps most enthralled me was Larry Niven’s “Known Space”. Something of a guilty pleasure: I’m well aware of Niven’s weaknesses as a writer and the holes in the Known Space scenario… but I’ve never stopped enjoying it.
It was a thrill when the first sequel to [...]