Originally posted by Eagles#5: Friday should be interesting on this unlucky Valentine's Eve day.
Either you're watching one of four things: Getting your ass to the theater to see Jason return on Friday the 13th.
Seeing T:SCC and the highly anticipated Dollhouse with Eliza Dushku.
Seeing Jeff Hardy return on Smackdown!
Or watching Gus on Tuesday the 13th on Psych.
I think Fox shouldn't be premiering Dollhouse tonight, exactly because of Jason! Genre fans will be out in the theaters! I know I will. And who besides genre fans are interested in Dollhouse?
Originally posted by mushu_jj: You're old enough to remember it.
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Originally posted by TV-aholic: New Coke?
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Originally posted by metal: I think Fox shouldn't be premiering Dollhouse tonight, exactly because of Jason! Genre fans will be out in the theaters! I know I will. And who besides genre fans are interested in Dollhouse?
Sci-Fi and horror are not the same genre, despite what the Sci-Fi channel would have you believe with all their lame monster movies.
My internet is finally back on for over an hour after going out every 10 minutes since yesterday!
Great episode of Survivor last night! ER was pretty good too.
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I expected Survivor to be "Down but far from out," and I expected Marc to not like last night's 30 Rock. I always love the show, but last night's was probably my least favorite episode. I only laughed when the bathroom door swung open. I also felt The Office was below average and one of the most uncomfortable episodes ever, though I enjoyed Angela's cat story line. I haven't seen the GA/PP crossover yet because I was not in the mood for 3 hours of tv last night. How was it?
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Originally posted by metal: I think Fox shouldn't be premiering Dollhouse tonight, exactly because of Jason! Genre fans will be out in the theaters! I know I will. And who besides genre fans are interested in Dollhouse?
Sci-Fi and horror are not the same genre, despite what the Sci-Fi channel would have you believe with all their lame monster movies.
Well, I'm not sure I buy that the sure-to-be-crappy remake of an already crappy slasher-pic is that much of a threat--I think as with Firefly, Dollhouse is threatened primarily by Dollhouse.
But the reason we use the word 'genre' as shorthand for 'SciFiFantasyHorrorWhatever' is that those forms have been bleeding into each other for a long time now. You see all of them represented at so-called science fiction conventions.
Whedon has probably been more influenced by horror than any other genre--he's even working on a horror movie now (somebody else is directing it). So while Dollhouse has a premise right out of Philip K. Dick, it's going to end up being a mish-mash of different genres, like everything else Whedon does.
He hasn't gotten the mix right in a long time, and I'm seeing some familiar warning signs, but we'll find out soon enough.
Hey, KR's real problem is people who don't even care enough to make fun of it. Personally, I'd go back to watching it if they'd go back to having him sleep with a different hottie every week.
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Castle and The Unusuals both look great, but the Unusuals is going to steal the show because of amber tamblyn. Castle looks better than life on mars.
Nothing with Nathan Fillion in it looks good. But anything with Amber Tamblyn in it is worth a look.
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cupid is the one that i can't stomach. only good thing about cupid is that dude from third watch is in it.
I fell hard for the original, mourned it, got over it, and could never watch a copy of it.
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cupid is another eli stone, pushing daises, and ugly betty all rolled into one. meaning epic fail!
Yeah, and but at least those shows aren't remakes. Oh wait, UB is a remake. Never mind.
Originally posted by metal: I think Fox shouldn't be premiering Dollhouse tonight, exactly because of Jason! Genre fans will be out in the theaters! I know I will. And who besides genre fans are interested in Dollhouse?
Sci-Fi and horror are not the same genre, despite what the Sci-Fi channel would have you believe with all their lame monster movies.
There's a huge cross audience between those genres, and Friday the 13th will for sure hurt Dollhouse's ratings, i'm predicting they'll be low, and they'd be low anyway without F13. If even Fringe isn't a hit following AI, there's no hope for Dollhouse to be one. But i'm curious to see how it does. And i'll be tivoing it.
Sorry for the O.T. question but any info on the ratings/demos for Burn Notice and The Beast !! Sorry Beast is doing poorly since it has got very good but know it will not last However BN seems to be coming along nicely and hope its ratings/demos stay in an upward swing - now if Carla would be history that would be better yet and a nice WhoDunIt murder mystery surrounding Carla would be awesome too
Originally posted by pisher: Well, I'm not sure I buy that the sure-to-be-crappy remake of an already crappy slasher-pic is that much of a threat.
Friday the 13th is a huge franshise, even if it's crappy, people will go see it, at least today, cause it's fun watching it on a Friday the 13th, and before the word of mouth begins, though the word of mouth could be good too. The reviews i've read have been positive. It's been promoted nonstop, and everyone's talking about it. My roomate went to see it at last night's midnight screening and she said there were lots of people wearing masks and fake blood and bikinis and that everybody clapped at the end. You shouldn't underestimate the power of Jason!
