I figured that since she isn't really his wife, and the neighbors might, like, notice the strange brunette hanging around, she needed a "friend" who was a plant. Otherwise she'd start talking to people who might have known the real wife and start asking awkward questions.

Okay - I sent out the emails and such today as I might as well mention it here. Dollhouse may be about to get pulled off air.

I don't like fan campaigns, but I'm running one for this for various reasons. I want this show to survive. If anybody has any ideas, post. Also, I owe Allyson a personal apology. After Drive got canned, I posted somewhere saying Tim probably wouldn't care 'cos of his pay. I have some of kind of personal connection to Dollhouse, and I now know - years too late - that was a SHITTY thing to do.

Dollhouse may be about to get pulled off air.

But you still think they'll get to film all the episodes for the DVDs?

If anybody has any ideas, post.

Make someone else the main character.

I've no idea. I hope so! And you made me laugh.

Good luck, Kevin. This isn't my show, so I don't have a stake in it, but I always feel for fans (and the crew) when a show is teetering. I do get fatigue on behalf of the troops, every time someone tries to rally them/us, though.

I doubt the effectiveness of a fan campaign. Ssorry, Kevin. I know how much it hurts when a show you love gets cancelled but I think I'd be happy if Dollhouse went off the air because I'd like to see Joss do something else now.

Right? Because where's the emotional resonance?

I guess I'd rather see Joss do what makes him happy than what makes me happy, so if this is where he finds his resonance, so be it. I don't feel any urge to help him. I don't know what it would take to get me to raise another finger--just too disillusioned with the whole deal.

I think, if one is contemplating a campaign, the first question should be, "Does anyone working on this show want it to continue?"

If the answer is yes, I would ask myself, "Are they bullshitting me?"

At which point I'd find a new hobby.

I got myself good and burnt out on save-our-show efforts early, back in '94 with My So-Called Life (ah, those weird days of practically no internet, when you had to try to save a show by surreptitiously xeroxing flyers at work [with the actual phone numbers and physical addresses of all the people to contact] and then spend a whole weekend running around posting them on every coffee house bulletin board in the city. Good times, good times!).

I'm just weirdly sad at how not-surprised I am. Unlike a lot of Buffistas, I really found last Friday's episode emotionally engaging and dark and messy and I loved Echo's affirmation at the end that she wants to hold onto the pain all her other selves are made to feel, doesn't want their experiences erased even if it's a sorrowful burden, that even a sorrowful burden is infinitely preferable to perfect blankness. Loved it, and have been wanting to rewatch that last scene, and I swear that the instant the credits rolled my very first thought was, Well, that was really thoughtful and interesting and the whole show is now headed someplace complex and rich. I bet it gets canceled in two weeks.