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There have been some pretty strange reboot ideas floating around TV land of late, but this one just takes the cake: Warner Brothers and Atlas Entertainment are firming up plans to give ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ a 21st century update – without auteur Joss Whedon. Wait … what?!

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When I sat down on Saturday morning to watch the series finale of “Dollhouse,” I really had only one question on my mind: “Who’s going to die in this episode?” It was sort of the inverse to my thought at the end of the third-to-last episode, “Getting Closer”: “Oh, yeah. This is a Joss Whedon show.”

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Days before “Dollhouse” signs off for good comes news of the resurrection of yet another short-lived late, lamented Fox genre series: the one-season wonder “Firefly.” Well … kind of, anyway.

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“Dollhouse” has been having a lot of fun with little inside jokes and winks to the audience of late — think Victor’s stay at the Hyperion Hotel and Bennett’s desire to probe Caroline’s amygdala — but the most interesting Easter egg in last week’s episode came from what seemed like a throwaway line at the end of the hour.

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Maybe it’s because yesterday morning, my co-workers kept insisting that it was absolutely vital that I watch Sunday’s season finale of “Dexter” as soon as possible. Maybe it’s because I can’t turn off my editor brain while watching TV, so I pick apart the patterns in just about every show I watch. Or maybe it’s because I expected things to go far, far worse than they did. Regardless of the reason, I wasn’t really shocked by the ending that Entertainment Weekly, New York Daily News and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and plenty of other publications have all called “shocking.” Find out why (and read massive spoilers) post-jump.

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It’s a good news/bad news kind of announcement: Fox is canceling “Dollhouse.” In spite of storytelling that picked up in the last half of season one, the show’s ratings have been poor, even with DVR results factored in. This probably doesn’t come as a surprise to anyone. As if reports that Joss Whedon would be treating the season finale as a series finale weren’t enough, the show went on hiatus during November sweeps — presumably so it wouldn’t pull down Fox’s average. The good news (if you’re a “Dollhouse” fan) is that the network plans to air all 13 episodes of the second season after the show returns from its hiatus.

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Along with the Nebula Awards, the Hugo Awards are some of the best-known and most prestigious honors in the realms of science fiction and fantasy. The most recent batch of Hugo trophies was handed out last night at Anticipation, the 67th Worldcon. I usually wind up hearing about who won what after the fact, but since announcements this year went out via Twitter, I kept up with who was walking away with a retro rocket-shaped trophy in real time.

Last year, I watched and read (and loved) some stuff that wound up being honored at the ceremony. And, even more awesome, a lot of that is stuff you can experience right now, for free (or almost free). So if, for example, you’re currently laid up with a broken leg, you can get award-winning goodness delivered to you in the comfort of your own home instantly and on the cheap.

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The first season of “Dollhouse” is out on DVD today, and included in the set is the unaired 13th episode, “Epitaph One,” along with other goodies. I’d been anxious to see “Epitaph One” for a couple of reasons. One was simple curiosity. After hearing that the episode was quite different from the rest of the season and was made on a fraction of a regular episode’s budget, I really wanted to see whether “new direction” and “less money” combined to make something amazing or something lame.

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I’ve read a lot of discussion in the blogosphere about “Dollhouse” over the last few months. Posts at The Angry Black Woman and This Ain’t Livin’ refer to the show’s events as rape. Then there are the 25+ pages of comments at the Television Without Pity forums discussing whether the show is feminist. And now that the first season has ended, I’m finding the show’s events, which deal with a corporation that imprints human bodies with new personalities before selling their services to wealthy clients, hard to classify.

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