November 16
2009
Dushku Face-palm.
Sadly, this seems to show why Eliza's other show was canceled.
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CZGoldEdition | November 16, 23:49 CET
gossi | November 17, 00:00 CET
CrazyKidBen | November 17, 00:03 CET
dispatch | November 17, 00:30 CET
But that was HILARIOUS!
missb | November 17, 00:41 CET
Arison | November 17, 00:47 CET
The audience gets questions wrong a lot.
jfhlbuffy | November 17, 01:15 CET
Yeah, that sucks, but it's not the first time the audience has been wrong on that show (watched it a fair bit when Regis was the host, when it was still new-ish). Also, I know it ain't Jeopardy, but you really shouldn't apply to go on unless you at least know your pop culture shit. And from there, history, geography, sciences, etc.
Kris | November 17, 01:21 CET
Saje | November 17, 02:09 CET
But yeah, was it a TV theme episode or is the American version more pop culture-centric than the UK one?
Ashley | November 17, 02:38 CET
sumogrip | November 17, 02:55 CET
OldSwede | November 17, 02:57 CET
I didn't know anything about Tru Calling until a few months before it was cancelled in the US. It aired in Australia on Channel Seven to fairly bad ratings at 9.30 Friday night, and then got shifted to 11pm Tuesdays [I think]. I was an avid viewer, despite knowing it had been canned. The only thing I hated about the show was the theme song. ;)
[ edited by Braeden Fireheart on 2009-11-17 12:05 ]
Braeden Fireheart | November 17, 03:02 CET
Simon | November 17, 03:09 CET
I guess this says a lot about Fox's advertising campaign.
Ricardo L. | November 17, 03:16 CET
Sucks for that guy, though. He probably went straight home and got the box set.
Jaymii | November 17, 03:34 CET
It had a likable main cast (besides Eliza also Zach Galifianakis, who became more famous this year thanks to the success of "The Hangover" and Shawn Reaves, who I would love to see reunite again with Eliza as a guest star in the remaining episodes of Dollhouse), in guest roles featured various known faces from other shows (Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Cobie Smulders, the actor who played Forrest on Buffy, that Bellick guy from Prison Break), Doug Petrie and Jane Espenson were co-executive producers, David Solomon directed 2 episodes and Robert Duncan (from Buffy Season 7) did the score.
All in all, as I said, it was a solid show that was prematurely canceled just when it was really starting to hit it's stride, which is a shame, because the planned plot arc for Season 2, which was later revealed by one of the show's staff writers and consulting producer Doris Egan, looked very interesting.
The only bad thing associated with Tru Calling is, that Eliza gave it priority over the suggested Faith spin-off helmed by Tim Minear.
Anuris | November 17, 04:09 CET
As for "Dollhouse", my bat fingers are posed on the remote for the finishing deluge this December. Double episode shots, who could want more?
Madhatter | November 17, 04:44 CET
Pointy | November 17, 05:06 CET
rehabber | November 17, 05:22 CET
As to 'Tru Calling' itself, it got much better when the evil leaper arrived but by that point it had already burned off a lot of its credit with me. When I heard it had a season 2 I figured i'd tune back in, when I heard it'd been cancelled after 6 episodes I figured I wouldn't bother.
(and the insulting end of act "flashbacks" aside, it says something about a show when even i'm getting sick of watching Eliza Dushku run around. OK, Tru was a track-star, we frikkin' get it)
Saje | November 17, 05:36 CET
Is the point of Echo really that she is a different character this week? I've always seen it as yes, she's imprinted with different personalities, but throughout the series she retains more and more of HERSELF (in this case, that being the developing 'Echo' personality, not Caroline).
So to me, the similarity between her roles is representative of that.
manreaction | November 17, 05:52 CET
I actually thought Eliza seemed miserable and bored while doing Tru Calling and wasn't too disappointed when that show was canceled since she clearly wasn't satisfied with the results (something her mom confirmed at a conference), but I thought she really shined in Dollhouse and Echo's journey of self discovery was interesting to me. I know I'm in the minority, but hey. Someone's gotta be! I've always been able to catch the subtle and not-so-subtle differences Eliza brought to each character on Dollhouse. I often saw a completely different Eliza than the one that I was used to when I watched Dollhouse, and she definitely impressed me with her range and ability to transform. Could someone else have done better? Who knows. For as much as other people might wish another actress was Echo, we haven't seen anyone else perform the same exact roles with the same amount of frequency and under the same conditions as Eliza has, so nobody can really know that another actress could have done better unless we're talking Meryl Streep here. Maybe the role of Echo and the actress playing her would have been criticized and found unlikable by the majority no matter who played her because of the way Echo is written and because everyone has their favorite actress that they would have rather seen in the role than the person playing it.
Aphrodite | November 17, 08:02 CET
OneTeV | November 17, 09:08 CET
CrazyKidBen | November 17, 10:09 CET
Saje | November 17, 10:19 CET
XanMan | November 17, 12:21 CET
Saje | November 17, 12:34 CET
It was a quirky show that definitely had a run of a few eps that weren't very good that also was not helped by the fact that it was on Thursday nights, which is when most networks but their big guns. But it really got going when Priestly showed up.
E-Rawk | November 17, 14:12 CET
XanMan | November 17, 17:08 CET
Side note: I may be the minority here but I loathe pun names and "Tru Calling" makes me cringe, not surprised the audience went with "Tru Colors".
[ edited by silent knight on 2009-11-18 02:21 ]
silent knight | November 17, 17:23 CET
Saje - There was also a short-lived show called "Journeyman" where an actress whose name was, I wanna say, Moon Bloodgood, basically also played the evil leaper.
I was just talking about 'Journeyman' in another thread XanMan. And yep, it was indeed the very lovely Moon Bloodgood (who was also in "Terminator: Salvation" BTW) that could have been that show's evil leaper but by the end, really, really wasn't (in some ways she was more like that show's Al in fact ;).
Saje | November 17, 23:06 CET
DaddyCatALSO | November 18, 17:25 CET