{"id":1483,"date":"2009-10-27T14:13:56","date_gmt":"2009-10-27T20:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nerdflood.com\/?p=1483"},"modified":"2009-10-27T14:13:56","modified_gmt":"2009-10-27T20:13:56","slug":"hulu-viewlu-stargate-and-dollhouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/hulu-viewlu-stargate-and-dollhouse\/","title":{"rendered":"Hulu Viewlu: Stargate and Dollhouse"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been on a bit of a Hulu<\/a> bender recently, attempting to slog my way through the deluge of queued-up television shows that need to be watched before they expire, like a bad piece of fruit. I’ve probably got roughly 372 videos in my queue. Last night I calculated my total remaining watch-time and it’s somewhere in the neighborhood of twelve years<\/em>. So, you know, I have to get through some of that before my oldest graduates high school.<\/p>\n

In an epiphany likely sparked by my algebraic formulations, I realized that I’m simply following too much television. So I decided to cut some shows from my subscription list that I really don’t need anymore. I’ll keep favorites like Castle<\/em>, The Office<\/em>, Community<\/em>, and Flash Forward<\/em>. But there’s some things that just don’t need to be there anymore. I missed season one of Fringe<\/em>, so I’ll drop season 2. Warehouse 13<\/em> got boring, so it’s gone. I was interested in Modern Family<\/em> due to Ed O’Neill, but I really don’t know a whole lot about it, so I guess I don’t need to watch it. The Dresden Files<\/em>? Maybe I’ll pick it up on Netflix.<\/p>\n

Then I came down to Dollhouse<\/em>. I was a fan of this show through season one and I was initially one of the seven people disappointed when news came out that it had been canceled. Then it came back for a miraculous second season. I knew that the show (and Joss Whedon in particular) enjoy a somewhat rocky relationship with Fox, so I assumed from the get-go that it wouldn’t survive another season. This is likely the case, as the show’s ratings have apparently been so bad, the show is being temporarily pulled from the November line-up<\/a> and then brought back in December to conclude. Those are not the signs of a healthy production.<\/p>\n

So, I considered dropping the show. But then, last night, as my cursor hovered over the “remove” button, I decided to go ahead and watch the first episode of season two. That was a bad idea. It was, in a word: disappointing. After such a hail-mary last-second rescue of the show by dedicated fans (and a miserly Fox network looking for potential cost savings) I fully expected the first epsidoe of the second season — which by all accounts simply should not exist<\/em> — to absolutely blow me away. It didn’t. It was bland and flat. I learned some things, but not the things I wanted to learn in order to continue to be interested in the show. I aired my distaste<\/a> on Twitter and received some good feedback. Most people were telling me that I should give it another chance. That it starts slow, and builds from there. But honestly, builds to what<\/em>? I feel very strongly that this show will not survive to see a season three, regardless of my feelings on the issue. I’ve decided to keep watching through the Summer Glau guest-star episodes and see how I feel after that. If it can’t capture me after five episodes, it has no business being on television (or my Hulu queue) at all.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, Stargate Universe<\/em> has absolutely enraptured me. After just the opening pilot. I was never a big SG fan. I’ve seen the movie and watched a handful of SG-1 episodes. I completely missed SG: Atlantis, but when John Scalzi<\/a> talked up the show (he’s a creative consultant for the production) I felt the need to at least check out the pilot. Out of courtesy, of course. And I’m immensely glad that I did. I love the premise and how it’s tied into the SG universe as a whole (pun unintended). I’m hoping beyond hope that the show doesn’t end up going straight downhill after the pilot, but I have faith in SyFy’s ability to create quality productions.<\/p>\n

On a somewhat-related sidenote, isn’t Hulu just the greatest thing ever created? For viewing television shows on the internet, I mean.<\/p>\n

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