Oh mein Gott. Ich dachte ja so ARG-Dinger kriegen mich nie. Aber den Usernamen hier hab ich schon. Und jetzt kommt das Kribbeln. Hilfe.

Edit: Das Passwort wurde nun bei Fox selbst in den Comments schon veröffentlicht. Drin ist nur ne heutige Mail von Topher:

Adelle,

Website is gone as requested. Will relaunch once the design is good to go.

Topher

(mit Link zu southlandlabs.com bei "Website", natürlich)

Edit 2: Okay, seriously freaking out here. Der Passwort-Poster bei Fox war Kimi Lassek (Nachname ist uns Whedon-Fans natürlich bekannt), und look what I found. Sieht das Foto nicht heftig nach den bisherigen Set-Fotos aus?

Edit 3: Mein Comment wurde nach ca. 15 Minuten freigeschalten. It's Echtzeit, holy crap.

WD fasst einiges zusammen, was ich gerne so unterschreiben möchte:

I think I was right yesterday when I suggested that some of Whedon’s fans love him more than they love his shows - I just get the feeling that whether Dollhouse rocks or whether it sucks, there are already those who have made up their mind as to he quality of the show. I just think that we as fans of good television, should execute caution before we set up ’save our show’ campaigns, because doing things like this so early will only dilute our voice when a great show actually deserves to be saved. That show might be Dollhouse, it might be Fringe..but the point is, let’s actually watch the show first, let’s actually see whether or not we like it. Let’s also give JOSS WHEDON some credit, he didn’t have to go with FOX..do you think he would have teamed up with them again on a whim? This must surely say something about the current ethos as FOX - which is different from ‘the old days’. So yeah, let’s also give FOX some credit..especially for their great sense of humour this morning!

Womit sie natürlich das hier meinen. Auch auf whedonesque wird sehr gut beobachtet:

No wonder. The fan campaign became the number one Dollhouse story on the blogosphere over the last few days thanks to Wired and BoingBoing and us. People weren't talking about the trailer, they were talking about that instead.

In some Fox office, some exec was thinking "we need to get a response out sharpish". If you notice, the rebuttal was good natured, self-depreciating and joking. Fox managed to reclaim the news cycle without making it look like they were panicking. All in all, an effective PR spin campaign. I await the next big fan kerfuffle to see how Fox will handle it.

Dollhouse: 20,580
Fringe: 12,634

Fringe holt etwas auf, der Verhältnis ist nun statt 1,67 runter auf 1,63.

Future on Fox erwähnt "unauffällig" die gemunkelte Viral-Seite adelledewit.com.

That Gorram Fox (feat. süßem Comic, so you better click!):

We are a bit surprised that you are already starting a campaign to save a show before it’s even begun. But then again, we are idiots if we underestimate the Whedon fanbase. It’s not like you guys have any reason to think the worst of us.

"any reason" verlinkt tatsächlich auf ihre Firefly-Page. Wie sweet. Sie verlinken z.B. auf den Artikel, der eh auch die Negativität thematisiert:

Some worry the efforts are overkill and will become a sort of self-fulfilling prophecy. At fan site Whedonesque, several commenters suggest that such pre-emptive campaigning will negatively affect the show.

Wie ich dazu stehe, wisst ihr ja schon. Aber Fox hat natürlich Recht, wenn sie die Fans auffordern, Farbe zu bekennen und Promotion zu betreiben.