About - Why we made this site
From Glenn:
I felt so strongly about Joss Whedon and Eliza Dushku's creation Dollhouse that I decided to create this site. They created an amazing show to tell amazing stories and we are just getting to the good bits. It would be a travesty for it not to continue.
It took a lot of effort (programming, debugging, design) and there were costs incurred with web hosting and placing google ads. I also had a great creative partner in Dana Sweeney who edited the site and contributed her thoughts below. This was a labor of love and in the end it will probably cost me even more than it already has. Such is life.
So please contribute anyway you can... You could write a letter to Kevin Reilly, you can pre-order Dollhouse on DVD or you can send a symbol of the show either on your own or by pooling our resources here on savethedollhouse.com.
From Dana:
Like so many fans, I used to lie there and take it when a show I loved was getting cancelled. And it happens oh so often, particularly, it seems, on certain networks.
We lost Firefly, Drive, The Inside, Wonderfalls, personal favorite Tru Calling, and other great and innovative shows all the way back to Profit and Alien Nation. Sometimes they get a full season, more often they get the obligatory 13 episodes, and most often, not even all 13 see the light of day (before the DVD anyway).
And then Jericho happened. And some nut decided to throw nuts. And so did thousands of others, including yours truly, because it was worth a try to save something we loved.
And it worked. In the long run, the show still got cancelled again, but we did the impossible, and that made us mighty! We brought it back from the dead and compelled a huge, faceless, impersonal corporate entity to give us what we wanted--at the very least, closure and a satisfying ending.
When Dollhouse first got announced, legions of Joss Whedon, Eliza Dushku, and Tim Minear fans groaned collectively: Fox? They're doing another show only to let Fox kill it? Haven't they learned not to trust that network by now? It was like watching Charlie Brown go running headlong at that football, knowing it would not end well.
But we wanted it to go well, because we're fans.
Then it came out that the pilot had been scrapped on orders from the network, and every Browncoat in existence had a conniption fit. It's The Train Job all over again! How could they?
But we went into it with (somewhat guarded, perhaps) optimism, because we're fans.
Then the schedule was finalized, and Dollhouse was in the Friday night death slot. Another echo of Firefly (hehe, Echo of Firefly--I didn't even mean to do that), and a seriously bad sign that the network was not showing great confidence in the show we were already so invested in.
But we hunkered down on Friday nights to watch it and harangued everyone we knew about the importance of supporting the show...because we're, you know.
And it was good. It was so good. The pilot that aired was generally considered to be a bit rough, but we saw that coming after the well-publicized interference, so we took it in stride and waited for next week to really shine.
Which it did. It knocked our socks off. Steven S. DeKnight's episode was the perfect and glorious and exciting show we were looking forward to, and it gave us a taste of what we'd been missing with no Mutant Enemy series on the air.
It's so very clear to all of us that Fox doesn't know what it has. We need to make them understand and appreciate it. Maybe Dollhouse isn't the show for everyone who's watching CSI: Wherever. But there are enough shows for those people. And those people will watch whatever is on, but we will only bother tuning in for very specific things, and we are a very underserved audience. More than that, we are a very passionate audience. We threw nuts at CBS to hang onto some of the only sociological science fiction on TV. Now, we can send dolls. Barbies, kewpies, Cabbage Patch, whatever works for you. This site is focussing mostly on the dolls that have been created in the image of three of the great stars of Dollhouse, to remind Fox what kind of star power they've got and what loyal fanbases these people bring with them.
Ratings are far from the only measure these days. Let's bombard the network with reminders of how many people are desperate to keep spending an hour a week with the inspired creation of Joss Whedon, the brilliant writing of a truly all-star creative team, and the compelling performances of Eliza Dushku, Harry Lennix, Tahmoh Penikett, Olivia Williams, Fran Kranz, Miracle Laurie, Reed Diamond, Dichen Lachman, Amy Acker, and the beyond impressive Enver Gjokaj, who is a pure chameleon and steals scenes everywhere he goes.
Sincerely,
Dana & Glenn - savethedollhouse.com
Contact Info:
Glenn Wehmeyer
c/o Straylight Labs LLC
1547 NW 59th St, Suite A
Seattle, WA 98107
email: info@savethedollhouse.com
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