It appears that Fox doesn't think its "patience" with Dollhouse is going to save it from fan blowback.
And last week, Fox chucked Joss Whedon's Dollhouse on the scrap heap. Though the network has promised to air all 13 of the show's commissioned episodes, loyal Dollhouse fans aren't likely to go gently into that good night. “I'll still get hate mail and death threats,” says Preston Beckman, executive VP of strategic program planning at Fox.
And in a bit of Dollhouse blowback imagining, Ben Grossman of Broadcasting & Cable has some "What They Said, What They Wanted To Say" :
What They Said: “Dollhouse got cancelled. F-ck you, Fox. F-ck you so hard—YET AGAIN for doing this to Joss and all of us!!!”—One of America's great thinkers (and the show's dozens of devoted fans), on Twitter.
What They Wanted to Say: “Hey ma! Can we get some meatloaf? The meatloaf! We want it now! The meatloaf! F-ck!”
via Broadcasting & Cable.
Sorry …my impression is that someone want to create a “fan blowback ” where it does not exist
But I could be wrong 
. However the idiots are everywhere and in opposite parties
People actually use Safari? Firefox on my Mac all the way!
Fan’s really have no reason to be angry, with the exception of the timeslot Fox have done absolutely nothing wrong.
They gave it a second season despite low ratings, they have been decent enough to let Joss finish this season and they plan to air it’s final episodes.
What more could we possibly/realistically ask for?
Ratings were low. Any fan who blames fox really doesn’t have a leg to stand on in my opinion.
Brad, I prefer a browser that doesn’t hog all my RAM.
(And I have an add-on which fixes all the things that I don’t love about Safari.)
Fox messed significantly with the original concept of the show which may have contributed to the low ratings. Yes, it’s time to pull out the Fan Excuse Bingo cards again.
Is there no low you will go to get hits from fans of tv shows? This site was actually highly regarded at one time for its analysis. Now it just seems like LCD material.
safari is amazing way better than internet explorer and firefox
How many people would even know who Preston Beckman IS in relation to Dollhouse had he not been quoted in this article? He’s getting death threats because the mailroom and switchboard are forwarding him generic death threats?
I think it’s more likely his quote was provided to B&C in (humorous?) anticipation of conventional wisdom behavior instead of recounting specific events. It’s even in the *future* tense.
Safari? Safari? What the… Firefox for the win
firefox sucks it doesn’t give you the convenience of opening your top sites with just a click of button no wait time safari is way faster firefox is definitely better than internet explorer but it is no safari
Opera beats all.
What the hell started the Firefox vs Safari discussion? I don’t see anything in what Bill posted.
The 1337 – meh, the only thing Fox asked for that the Dollhouse team didn’t want to do, so far as I can see, is ask for the first few episodes to be standalones. In all honesty, saying “Oh no, we can’t write standalones, we don’t know how to do it and/or it would somehow be impossible to fit into our vision” means being unfit to run a TV series.
Now, I don’t think Whedon is unfit to run a TV series, far from it, but I’m amazed he and his team did such a poor job for S1E1-S1E5. You can’t blame Fox for that.
Robert – that was my question too. Never heard of the guy, why would he receive hate mail?
Anyway, I don’t think he would. Dollhouse’s end wasn’t exactly unanticipated. And just as this usually-cold-on-Whedon viewer rather liked the show, the show seemed unusually unpopular – well, at least, non-enthusiasm-inspiring – amongst Whedon’s usual fans. So the people most likely to be rabid aren’t actually going to be… about this show itself.
Sure it does, Carl, if you add a very small and fast addon. And Firefox is much better and that whole rendering websites thing that is pretty important for a web browser.
What is this site going to do when us DH fans leave? lol
Wayne – that’s what Fringe fans are for, duh!
talk about V, Heroes, Fringe, Smallville, Castle, Law & Order, Numb3rs, The Big Bang Theory, CSI, The Jay Leno Show, Lost, Stargate Universe, SpongeBob, Burn Notice. I could go on with dozens of shows which would likely be punctuated with one word: CHUCK!
For those interested in discussing browsers and operating systems I did a post with the browser/OS combos for site visits over the last 30 days:
http://tvbythenumbers.com/2009/11/14/tvbythenumbers-by-the-numbers-top-browseroperating-system-combos-for-accessing-the-site/33671
Joss needs to go back to what he did best, and thats the Buffyverse. The fans and television is crying out for it to return in some form, so why not just do it ??
I was quite impressed with Fox’s commitment to the show. It lasted about 20 episodes longer than I expected. Thank you Fox. I wished you’d given the show a chance on another night, but what can you do?
Also I wish Terminator had been given the extra season as it was a much stronger show creatively and as you were enduring low ratings anyway, but I know that Dollhouse was produced in house.
uh oh fox better be worried the 17 dollhouse fans are gonna get them, mabye throw ken and barbie action figures at them from the streets as a symbol of their badassness haha