Dollhouse of cards

There is so much wrong with this Sci-Fi Wire article that it’s not even funny. Are they seriously quoting anonymous and random YouTube users as a credible source of information? But that sort of thing is pretty much par for the course with Sci-Fi Wire lately. What used to be a halfway decent (if not exactly cutting-edge) source for genre news is turning into another annoying io9-like blog. Which is not to rag unduly on io9, which has its share of good points and good posts. I just think Neil Gaiman wasn’t wrong when he said that each of its articles read “like someone was assigned it, and sort of blogged it out in a bit of a hurry without any research or real thought.” That might be the popular model right now, but it’s not really a good model to use.

I also think it’s maybe worth noting that the last Whedon project to be hyped as much as Dollhouse was Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, and that succeeded like gangbusters. And before that, Wonder Woman — which Joss had in development for a long while, and which internet hype had pegged as the second coming — fizzled out.

So don’t believe the hype. I don’t know if the new show will succeed, or even if it will deserve to. But it’s better to wait and see than trust to the judgment of anonymous YouTube users. (Who saw the same trailer as the rest of us.) Whedon and company have earned that much, don’t you think?