{"id":528,"date":"2007-11-06T08:36:43","date_gmt":"2007-11-06T12:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=528"},"modified":"2007-11-02T09:36:57","modified_gmt":"2007-11-02T13:36:57","slug":"lets-just-cancel-it-now-and-avoid-the-rush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=528","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s Just Cancel it Now and Avoid the Rush"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First, the good news: Joss Whedon, of <I>Firefly<\/I> fame, is coming back to television with a new SF series called <I>Dollhouse<\/I>.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the bad news: It&#8217;s been bought by Fox, who seems to make a hobby out of canceling promising SFTV.<\/p>\n<p>The premise is kind of neat: The ultra-rich can buy a perfect fantasy, whatever they want, which is fulfilled by a group of men and women who can be imprinted with personality packages, including memories, skills, language and even muscle memory.  After their role in the fantasy is complete, the &#8220;players&#8221; have their memories of the experience wiped.  The series stars Eliza Dushku, whose character stops forgetting.<\/p>\n<p>Any bets on how long it&#8217;ll last?<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.sfsignal.com\/archives\/005825.html\">SF Signal<\/A> has more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First, the good news: Joss Whedon, of Firefly fame, is coming back to television with a new SF series called Dollhouse. Now, the bad news: It&#8217;s been bought by Fox, who seems to make a hobby out of canceling promising SFTV. The premise is kind of neat: The ultra-rich can buy a perfect fantasy, whatever [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}