Dollhouse: 7 Reasons Why I Can’t Wait for Friday Night

1. Joss Whedon created it. Anybody who reads this site knows that I’m a massive Whedon fan. I’ve loved pretty much every show he’s worked on, and as much as I loved Doctor Horrible, it’s going to be fantastic having a Joss Whedon show back on our screens on a regular basis (assuming Fox doesn’t royally screw things up).

2. It’s got some great actors involved in it. I’m of course psyched that Eliza Dushku is involved. She really kicked things up a notch in season 3 of Buffy and it’d be nice to see her doing some quality material again. But amongst the Dollhouse cast is BSG’s Tahmoh Penikett. Amy Acker and even Mark Sheppard will be making appearances. And with Joss Whedon, you know we’ll get to see some more familiar faces.

3. It’s got some excellent Buffy alum on the writing team. Amongst the writers I’m excited to hear from again are Tim Minear and Jane Espenson, although I don’t know how much she’ll be doing since she’s showrunner for Caprica.

4. There’ll be fewer commercials. Now of course, I usually just fast forward through commercials anyway, but Dollhouse, like Fringe, will be part of Fox’s Remote Free TV program which means few, and shorter advertising.

5. I can watch a genre show I’ll probably enjoy. Okay, let me elaborate here. Basically, the three genre shows I’m following right now are Heroes, Lost and BSG. Two of them rely on dragging out plot points and stringing along viewers while the other has yet to prove itself after a debacle of a second season. Joss Whedon has never manipulated his audience the way the creators of Lost and BSG have, and as for Heroes’ floundering, you only have to watch season 5 of Angel to realize that his shows just get better and better.

6. Even if it gets cancelled (and I know a lot of people are concerned about that) we’ll at least get to see what happened via comics. There’s a lot of shows out there I wish hadn’t been cancelled like Veronica Mars or Wonderfalls, where we don’t get to find out what happens next. But Joss Whedon is so heavily involved in comics that you know we’ll still get to find out what Echo’s up to.

7. I can’t wait to see a kickass Dollhouse movie. Let’s see, it’s made by Fox, the pilot’s been re-shot and it’s on a Friday night… If history continues to repeat itself, we should see a truly excellent movie (perhaps titled Echo?) in three years or so.