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.

I don't think a show can succeed without advertising and I haven't seen any for Dollhouse this fall.

I have been part of a successful show campaign, but I'm not sure if it counts as it was to HBO. But I got to call NY and use my Educated White Girl Voice...good times. Alas, I can't recommend my letter as a template, either, because I think I just wrote "My dog died and we lost the election and may I please, please, have my show back?" Begging-ass Bitch might work better for premium subscribers. I think I made up some bullshit Netflix rental statistics too, about how I had to wait weeks and weeks for The Wire season 2(who says you can't learn from TV? I learned to juke the stats. And to put bullet points in my letter...network executives, like commanders, like dots.)

I don't think a show can succeed without advertising and I haven't seen any for Dollhouse this fall.

See, I don't think that's entirely fair.

You can blame lack of advertising for people not showing up Week 1 because they didn't know it was there/back. But you can't blame lack of advertising for people watching one week and then not coming back the next. And, personally, I think it's that fact (that, every week, the show loses some of its audience) more than just overall numbers that hurts the show's chances of survival.