I really don't know how much it blows because as far as I can tell that first episode had somebody else's fingerprints all over it.

But but...the network can give a note. Joss has to write it. The same way an editor gives you notes, and you work with it. You can take a note and write the shit out of it. Or, and this happens, if you really believe the note is ass, you can make a case for yourself, and sometimes the note goes away.

I'm seriously boggled that you want to go to bat for Fox.

If I think they're in the right, sure. Joss can be wrong. I'd rather have an awesome new Joss show to watch, believe me. I'd rather be dancing myself silly that Joss and Jane and Tim were all working together on really great television.

On this, I think they put up an assload of money. And then gave him an assload more to fix it. Really. Hand over fist.

I do think that in this case, FOX's mistake was buying it in the first place. Somewhere in Joss' noggin, there's a great show, I'm sure. This isn't. Initially, the network was stoked about Joss' great return to television, but it turned into a fantastic trip into the guac.

They care about money.

And this show isn't going to make any. Unless I'm on crack and it turns into a giant hit. Hey, I thought we could save Firefly with a fan campaign. I've hit the pipe before.

And frankly, nobody in Hollywood cares about handbiting.

There's handbiting, and then there's a flamethrower, a tanker full of kerosene, and 200 sacks of salt. Eventually, you'll run out of fertile land.

And frankly, nobody in Hollywood cares about handbiting.

I'd always been told that the industry runs on relationships.

In other, more awesome, news, I have finally gathered together all of the Strange World episodes on my DVR. There very well may be a one-woman watch and post coming to a thread near you soon.

I caught a bunch of them on Chiller a month back. I finally saw the season finale. That Tim Minear...

That's where I got all of the episodes. I love Chiller.

Once I'm done with Strange World, I'm going to start working my way through Millennium, which Allyson says is my kind of show.

I'm back and forth on Millenium. Sometimes it's just gross.

I watched the run of All Souls on Chiller, and it was a show sorely in need of an arc, but they did a really good job on the creepy.

I will be interested to see where it falls on my spectrum of gross acceptability.

Dollhouse is #5 in iTunes top tv episodes. If that means anything.

The first two seasons of Millennium were better than X-Files, imho. Yes it was gross sometimes and way dark, but really focused. The third season was interesting but really not the same show.

Someday, I need to finish X-Files. I think I was close to the end of S4 when I overloaded.