Dollhouse

My confidential source at Fox reveals that there are no longer any plans to film a holiday special in which Buffy The Vampire Slayer’s lovable but rakish anti-villain Spike shows up at the Dollhouse to teach Echo a lesson in taking the reins on one’s destiny.

Apparently, the original plan was for Spike to provide a key piece of insight to Echo, who would have recently escaped the dollhouse, but be unsure what to do next. At that point in the series, the newly self-aware Caroline/Echo will be asking herself a lot of questions, like “Who am I, really?” “Am I good or evil?” and “What is my purpose in life?”

Spike has already had to wrestle with all those questions and come out the other side a healthy being, so he was seen as the perfect catalyst to guide Echo through the changes. His appearance would also have been an experiment in viewer ratings: if he scored well, then Fox was to go ahead and fund the first season of the long-anticipated “Spike: The Hard Way.”

Apparently, though, Joss Whedon, creator of both franchises, decided that the appearance of the beloved platinum-haired vampire would be too much of a deus-ex-machina.

“Echo needs to get where she’s going on her own merits,” Whedon will say in a yet-to-be-released statement. “And Dollhouse, as a show, needs to do the same. “

Of Course it’s a spoof !