News broke this weekend that Fox has given Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles a full second season despite lack-luster ratings and the face that we still haven’t watched on second of the show when broadcast. The only parts of the Connor Chronicles we’ve ever watched have been clips ready-for-mocking over at YouTube and Best Week Ever.

The problem being that Sarah Connor was in so much ratings trouble at the end of last season that Terminator was not included in the winter/spring schedule for FOX, making those who are paying attention question what gets bumped in favor of more Terminator.

Our greatest FOX-based fear right now is that they will assume Terminator can still do well in it’s Monday time slot and move Joss Whedon’s mid-season replacement Dollhouse to the Friday spot-o-death, a similar time-slot that killed Whedon’s Firefly for FOX…

We know that Whedon has already filmed a second Dollhouse pilot for FOX (second pilots ar just something that guy does), but relegating Dollhouse to a Friday night time slot has frightening echoes of FOX’s mis-handling of Firefly, Joss Whedon’s short-lived space western that cruelly never saw it’s entire first season broadcast.

The Onion AV Club summed it up well in their 2004 review of the Complete Series DVD:

The science-fiction/Western TV series Firefly was admittedly crowded, pretentious, and too innovative to be a guaranteed success, but Fox bears much of the blame for its failure. By airing the episodes out of order, withholding the pilot until months after the series launched, sticking the show with a difficult time slot, limiting network advertising support, and canceling the show partway through its initial run, Fox publicly declared that Firefly was a risk not worth taking. That seemed bizarre at the time, given that it was the highly anticipated new project of two-time winner Joss Whedon, creator-writer-director-producer of the highly marketable hits Buffy The Vampire Slayer and Angel.

All we can do now is hope that FOX finds something else to boot so Dollhouse can take it’s rightful place on Mondays with the new Season of 24.