On November 12, I wrote:

Dollhouse Cancelled [Jonah Goldberg]
Well it’s apparently official, Joss Whedon’s worst show — by far — has finally been put out of our misery. The good news is that they’ll at least let the second season play out. This of course means that it will suddenly get mega-super-duper-awesome.

And, of course, I was right!

I got to watch a couple of the episodes that have come out since then on iTunes and, yes, alas, alack, and for shame, they are supercalifragilisticexpialidociously excellent. I’ll admit, my judgment is skewed. I have a lot of conflicting emotions about the fact that the show is good now. But one of them is anger toward Whedon. For a long time I thought that the very premise of the show precluded the possibility of it being a good show (who wants to cheer the sex-slave pimps simply because they feel slightly guilty about what they do?). Now, it’s clear it can be a good show, so the question is: what took Whedon so long? He knows better than anyone that Fox is not famous for its patience. If a show doesn’t do well early on, Fox will cancel it long before it gets good. That Dollhouse even lasted this long is bizarre.

Anyway, now the show is doomed. Efforts to save it will surely fail, they nearly always do and the time lag between the cancellation announcement and its improvement would make it only harder. Such a waste.