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by Alex
I’ve always wondered what terrible, secret price Joss Whedon had to pay to Alan Tudyk in order to get him to acquiesce to being killed off on a movie _explicitly designed to keep a franchise going_. And now I know.
I imagine that Dollhouse is going to be canceled after the season finale, since it has gotten so good. It is a pity — Joss is really warming up to using the chair. We’ve seen dead people, children meeting different versions of themselves, attic’d employees put back in the bodies of dolls, and now we know Tudyk has been on a steady diet of egg whites, toast, and exercise in order to fit snugly into his probably-organic-cotton doll jammies.
Maybe it’s Joss’s fault for making shows that don’t get really going until people have already given up on them, or maybe people who like to watch good TV just do it over the Internet now. Even if they do cancel Dollhouse, at least the Tudyk-reveal last night gave me a ‘wtfbbqsauce’ moment the likes of which I haven’t had in _years_. Literally.
I believe you are mistaken and that “Serenity” was intentionally terminal. It possesses that definitive element of narrative, closure. (NOT how the word is most commonly used) It is the one and only thing of Whedon’s that has any balls, as it is not assuming that essential purpose of commercial television productions, the marketing of the next episode, to not please and to not satisfy. Nothing else of his even comes near it.
Full disclosure: my experience does not include “Dollhouse.”