Oh, Dollhouse, beleaguered Dollhouse.  Your premise is interesting—I think so, at least—but you're getting all these blows that sometimes I wonder if the effort is futile or not.  You've been placed on Friday night, which traditionally is the time slot where shows being killed off, or at least have low expectations, are placed.  You've lost your pilot episode, since Fox figured the money's better off placed on that elaborate dollhouse set—it's something I understand, since the show's called Dollhouse, after all, but it's just a weird decision.   Now you're going to lose your webisodes?

Then again, that isn't exactly a sure thing. Joss Whedon, the show's creator, previously mentioned his plans to release a significantly huge amount of webisodes.  It won't be something like what The Office does, if he had his way; instead, there will be “literally a full season of them.”  For each one of the 13 episodes of Dollhouse, there will be one webisode, and although there's still no word on whether those clips will be tied into the story, or be an entirely different beast altogether, it's just proof of how much time and effort Whedon is willing to commit to get the series off the ground.

But with the news that Fox has scrapped the original series pilot to tweak the way the show will eventually look like, there's been some noise from the rumor mills suggesting that the plan to have webisodes have been dropped.  Representatives from Fox told website Pie Spoilers that the production will focus on ‘[just] the actual show for the first season,” and also added that they “do not believe that there will be supplemental webisodes.”

Now, there's no actual word on whether this is true.  The website itself suggests that it could probably be a case of Fox not knowing what Whedon is up to, or the other way around.  Maybe it means webisodes will be out only when the show has settled—a season season, perhaps?  But with fans and observers already heavily speculating that Dollhouse's first season, which will kick off in February, will be its last, it seems to have raised quite a howl, both from fans and from those who think Whedon is better off elsewhere.  Which leaves me to this: oh, Dollhouse, beleaguered Dollhouse…


-Henrik Batallones, BuddyTV Staff Columnist
Source: Pie Spoilers
(Image courtesy of Fox)