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They could drop the background music from shows to lower the budget.

A good day for unconventional television: 'Dollhouse' renewed | The Watcher

I like "Grrr Arrrgh!" and "Bad Robot!" the most.

She's not so bad that she has to be cut from the show. As long as the show remains an ensemble, she'll be fine.

I think Ballard, as Echo's new handler, would eventually figure out what else the Dollhouse is doing -- and it would be dramatic enough that the LA branch would decide to turn against the national organization -- perhaps covertly. Or at least, some of them would.

They didn't show his face until the last two episodes, but the flashbacks of the mayhem he caused at the Dollhouse was spread throughout the series in a few episodes (the dead bodies, the slowly-healing Dr. Saunders), and they were often talking about him even when they didn't show the visuals.

The question was about why the dollhouse allowed the designer - the real designer - to live after having designed the dollhouse. Answer was that the real designer had no idea where in the world his design had been built. Yes, Alpha knew where it was, but he wanted a partner to help him...

He designed it but had no idea where in the world it was built. Alpha, pretending to be the designer, made that point to Ballard.

I appreciate that some folks say that we should not use excuses when the ratings fluctuate, but, where I live at least, it is "finals week" for college students (indeed in CO, they take their finals on Saturday after cramming all night Friday). And in any case Dollhouse's ratings were higher...

Alan was great. But aside from knowing that Alpha was the bad guy, I didn't know who to root for. So when Ballard and Alpha's handler were fighting, I couldn't really care about which way the fight was going.

I'm gonna be ok if it gets canceled, because I realize that as much as I like some of the characters - Topher especially, Adelle somewhat - the fact is that I thought Eliza Dushu was better in Tru Calling than in Dollhouse. So if this show ends, there's a chance she'll wind up back on tv, albeit...

They failed to do that in this episode!

Nope, just that it was Topher's birthday, and that Echo's handler has just started to be head of security. And that one Dollhouse is in New York. And Topher's lingo for the dolls includes "sleepies". Oh, and that the FBI agent is apparently a fan of a particular "love scene" in Blade Runner.

Nope. They never addressed the question of the soul at all. I kept expecting someone to bring it up (in the episode), but no one did. As someone else on Whedonesque put it: "I wanted to see that giving this lady's memories to someone was not the same as bringing back their soul. That was the...

This was a tough episode, because Eliza didn't really pull off the mannerisms of an older person. She just looked kind of befuddled and twitchy. Risky storyline. Alias made sure to always get someone into a latex dress when ratings were at stake.

Was Dollhouse on yesterday? I don't see it around...

Source:Paley Fest 2009: Whedon's 'Dollhouse' Goes Post Apocalyptic Horror? - FEARNet

mattCR seems to like it, and that's on this page alone. Looking back one more page, rvanward, Derek, John Swarce, Josh Steinberg. Should I go back three pages or have I demonstrated that you're exaggerating enough? Yes, we have criticisms about each episode, but that doesn't mean we don't like it.

Oh please, you expect anyone to believe that? Read the fans on its Facebook page, if you want a national sampling of fans enjoying the show. You're at best talking about people who were defending the show during the filler episodes, who were saying that the premise was good, and just stick with...

I'm sick of people who say that fans defending a show is a bad thing. That is bull. You have to look at the points one by one: 1)Wait til episode 6, when Joss writes an episode: True or False? True. The previous episodes dictated by Fox were bad, proving that suits should stay out of the...

No, it isn't typical of his shows at all. Buffy, in the course of seven seasons, had two well-known stinkers ("Beer Bad" was one of them -- when evil beer made a campus really obnoxious) and I can't think of the other episode. Also, the last season of Buffy is considered poor, but Whedon was not...

Let's just all agree that people invented the tv show.

But wouldn't the staff of the Dollhouse want to correct the "flaws" as they appear? If they were oblivious to them, they'd be stupid. Instead, they're aware, and the Dollhouse is starting to fall apart because of it. New thought: Joss has done this sort of before... in the later seasons of...

Too bad for you then, because that's not just the idea for a couple episodes, that's the entire long arc of the series. When is a doll not a doll.

I don't think there's a flaw. The characters are wiped after each assignment, and if that actually worked, then yes, there would be a flaw in that viewers would not attach to the characters. But since the show's narrative is explicit in showing that the wiping does NOT work as it is supposed to...

Buffy was special since birth, but Angel wasn't special until he'd become a vampire AND been cursed by gypseys. Riven Tam was a genius, but wasn't a whack-a-mole until she was experimented upon by the Alliance. John Locke, well he grew into his destiny, even though he failed the childhood...

I disagree with the claim of bad writing. The come-uppance of the uptight Dollhouse agent by Topher having implanted an active with a higher security level (NSA) was wonderful. As was Topher and Adelle's devolution. As was all the dolls eventually glitching. The only weak part was the...

Yeah, everyone on every forum got a laugh out of that. I expect that was supposed to be two scenes, and involve some jogging in between to make the set feel like it was more than 5 steps deep. People also noticed the way that Echo did not have to get off her bike since she was magically already...

What is this "Naked Time" everyone is referring to?

Agreed. The whole series has characters to appeal to different age sets -- Adelle for us in our upper 30s or even 40s, Eliza for the twenties, that alien Sierra for the kids...And on other forums people have been pleased that the FBI agent's next door neighbor love interest was heavier than is...