Summer Glau joins the cast of 'Dollhouse'

Summer Glau (left) and Eliza Dushku do a promotional spot for Fox Friday night. Oh yeah, you want to stay home and watch them Friday night on "Dollhouse."  Don't you?

Yeah, I'm still mourning the death of the TV series "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles," but I'm not so bereft I can't celebrate fan favorite Summer Glau joining the cast of "Dollhouse."

Entertainment Weekly reported that Glau will join the cast as Bennett, "a Dollhouse employee who shares a past with Eliza Dushku's Echo."

I believe this casting move was as inevitable as the sun rising for two reasons: Glau is a Joss Whedon alum from the series "Firefly" and after a sexy promotional segment for Terminator and DollHouse ran promoting Fox's Friday night lineup, fanboy internet buzz probably reached a fever pitch.

Or this imaginary interchange happened between Joss and a FOX executive...

FOX EXECUTIVE: Joss? Can you add Summer Glau to "Dollhouse" and amp up the sexy?

JOSS WHEDON: --The what?

As it turned out, Fox canceled Connor and kept "Dollhouse." I wasn't looking forward to another season of the dolls but a second chance could be just the thing the show needs to capitalize on the good season ending episodes.

I think this is a great move for Glau and maybe the role of Bennett will give her another opportunity to showcase her acting chops.

On the canceled Fox series "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles" Glau played Cameron, a cyborg killing machine sent to the past to protect the future savior of humankind, John Connor. She, and the deft TSCC writers, managed to make this robot character seem very human at times. Mysteriously human (see the episode "Allison from Palmdale").

In its final weeks of airing this Terminator TV series suffered for Cameron being left out of the main storyline.  I suspect it wasn't an intentional move on the part of the Connor writers. However, the show managed to have a terrific season/series finale.

I've eulogized Sarah Connor enough.  It's out of my system now.

Anyway, welcome to "Dollhouse" Summer Glau, I hope you survive the experience.