Failure Trifecta: Dollhouse, The Graysons, Bat-Family
Posted at 11:57 AM Nov 07, 2008
• Apparently I wasn't the only one who thought that the new trailer for Joss Whedon's Dollhouse looked lame. Fox is putting the show in Friday nights, where it generally premieres shows to die (Firefly got the same treatment). This ensures that Dollhouse will be incredibly awesome, will be prematurely canceled, and fans will freak the fuck out. Oh, and the Terminator show is moving to Friday's, too. Sayonara, Sarah Conner! (Via /Film)
• The CW has scrapped plans to make The Graysons, the show that was inexplicably going to focus on Robin before he became Robin and was just some stupid kid/circus acrobat. Whether the CW executives finally stopped shooting cocaine directly into their scrotal sacks to realize The Graysons was a terrible idea, or if there's just a merciful god who watches over us remains to be seen. (Via Newsarama)
• DC is canceling the Robin, Nightwing and Birds of Prey comics as soon as Batman R.I.P. ends. This would seem to lend credence to the rumor that Dick Grayson will be taking over the role of Batman, possibly with Batman's assassin son Damien as Robin (not making this up, non comic fans). It would also lend credence to that fact that they don't sell for crap, but I'm not here to judge. (Via AV Club)
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Sadly this is the first I've heard of Batman RIP. Batman plus Grant Morrison!?!! Gah! I need to start going to the comic shop again regularly.
Posted 11/07/2008 at 09:32:00 AMI see them rebooting at issue one with new characters, only to be reset within a few months to a year back to their regular stars.
Posted 11/07/2008 at 09:55:03 AMI don't know why any network hoping to bring in an 18-to-36-year-old demographic -- which MUST be what they want with Dollhouse -- would air the show on Friday night, when none of those people are home, except for maybe me. They've essentially canceled it already! Show some damn faith (no pun intended), for God's sake! As Shazam would say, "RAAAAAAAAGGGGE!"
Posted 11/07/2008 at 10:20:41 AMFrankly I'm vastly more concerned by the instant army of frothing obnoxious fans that Dollhouse will generate within the first minute of the first episode airing, cementing my fate of having to listen to them go on and on and on and on about how it's the greatest show ever and I should buy the DVDs and nothing will ever top it, and then there'll be petitions to keep the show on the air and campaigns to send some stupid tchochkies to the Fox executives and eventually they'll agree to do a movie and the movie will fail at the box office but the fans will still insist more should be made and they'll never shut up ever and it'll turn out in the end that the show wasn't very good in the first place and everyone talks like they work at the sarcastic bumpersticker and tee-shirt slogan factory and OH GOD NOT AGAIN
Posted 11/07/2008 at 11:39:52 AMI think Nightwing was selling 50+K a month, Robin was doing 30+K, and BoP was at about 20+K.
Doesn't matter since everything will eventually return to normal.
Posted 11/07/2008 at 12:53:09 PMthis is sort like what they did when they killed superman. they readjusted all of the superman books to other characters so readers would keep guessing about whether or not superman was actually going to come back.
but they didn't CANCEL the books.
which worries me.
because those are three of my favorite series.
Posted 11/07/2008 at 06:08:37 PMby the way grant morrison is kind of sucking at this.
by the way jason, jumping back into dc now when all this shit is going down would only give you a headache of biblical proportions
Posted 11/07/2008 at 06:11:13 PMI'm just gonna watch Brave and the Bold and call it a day.
Posted 11/07/2008 at 07:56:19 PMdollhouse, don't really care looked lame and not much of a whedon fan after what he did to runaways
the graysons being scrapped has made my day
Posted 11/07/2008 at 08:07:50 PMnightwing being cancelled has ruined my day (although it is 4am so it might get better)
Well if they are going to cancel Birds Of Prey -- at least give Lady Blackhawk her own series!!
Posted 11/14/2008 at 07:38:25 AM