@avclub-6188d67c7355d4166b6d12db43485400:disqus: What @avclub-faaf2eb04638f2f0a77e0d1db2386c2d:disqus is describing is the current make-up of TV. Sure there's lots of crap, but there's also a decent amount of really good stuff. Just of stuff that I watch: Hannibal, Adventure Time, The Venture Bros, Mad Men, Key and…

My guess is the lack of direct Whedon writing credits on Dollhouse (especially in the second season) is similar to Milch taking so few credits in Deadwood. I mean, I doubt he dominated the show quite like Milch did his, but higher level TV writers/showrunners sometimes like to let their staffs take the credits because…

From Joss himself on Dollhouse, from Whedonesque:

…Sort of? I've only seen the first season, but it had a somewhat similar flashback structure (called fairybacks which showed the characters before the evil witch banished them to the real world). It also had mysteries (of a sort?) and a good vs. evil plot-thing.

His best shot was probably 2007, but he ran into There Will Be Blood.

I'm another defender of the ending. And it makes sense within the film's internal logic, dammit.

Yep, it is part of the public domain, actually.

Yeah, pretty much?

So, yeah, not a fan. Too aggressively slick and competent to make it as enjoyably bad TV, and not nearly good enough to be actually good TV.

So a guy from the revolutionary war wakes up in the present, and we're going to use this premise to make a joke about how many Starbucks there are now. That's why they pay Kurtzman and Orci the big bucks!

Point against Fringe and the X-Files being a shared fictional universe: in the episode where they talk about the "previous X-designation" they also show someone watching an episode of the X-Files.

So, are Kurtzman and Orci going to have minimal input going forward? If the answer is yes, I might actually watch this.

Okay, that makes more sense.

The same way that someone could know that any other television program is going to air? Television is scheduled and listed ahead of time and stuff.

I do agree that the commenters here tend to gang up on Dowd, oftentimes without good reason. But as @LurkyMcLurkerson:disqus brings up, the issue is less him ragging on stuff we haven't seen yet, but rather the glib dismissals of other works already beloved by the commentariat. If he could explain this opinions better…

I might like Howl more than Spirited, but I'll admit it's a much more flawed movie. I just love the characters in Howl.

@avclub-b327ac90601ec5904ca8e539cba62638:disqus: Are you talking about D'Angelo? Because I actually tend to like him. When he doesn't like something I can usually wrap my head around why, and he can also be really perceptive in places.

D'Angelo hates everything, though, so it's more understandable.

Yeah… that's something you might want to keep to yourself.

I remembering reading somewhere that it was so they didn't have to give everyone their contractual raises for a new season (though I don't have a source for that right now).