Dr. Horrible = Not Horrible at All
Posted at 11:56 AM Jul 16, 2008
About to take your lunch break? You could do a lot worse than heating up your Hot Pocket and coming right back to your computer to watch Act I of Joss Whedon's Dr. Horrible's Sing-a-long Blog, which finally became available yesterday. It's got Neil Patrick Harris as the rather reasonably evil scientist Dr. Horrible (who has a video blog) and Nathan Fillion as the heroic and heroically smug Captain Hammer, in one of the most entertaining performances I hope to see all year. There's "Once More With Feeling"-esque singing, a song about an evil horse, women being tossed into the garbage—look, just go watch the damn thing.
Comments
That was freaking awesome. Joss always delivers. Very OMWF-esque.
Posted 07/16/2008 at 10:31:11 AMOnly a true Whedonite would use the abbreviation for the title of the musical episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and expect everyone to know what they're talking about.
But yeah, that was amazing.
Posted 07/16/2008 at 12:15:54 PMSo awesome.
Posted 07/16/2008 at 12:38:17 PMAll that AND Neil Patrick Harris. Nothing could ever be so right.
Posted 07/16/2008 at 12:52:55 PMThe only Whedon I can get behind is his affiliation with the Alien series. Otherwise, he can suck my nose until my head caves in.
Posted 07/16/2008 at 03:19:16 PMNot too impressed. Joss music writing skills were enough to pull off a single novelty episode of a poorly rated TV show (sorry, Buffy's ratings always sucked, as much as we all thought it was cute) at the tail end of a dying trend of musical episodes (when Drew Carey beats you to the punch, you know it's played out) but this, like a lot of his recent work shows he's really out of ideas and running out of steam. I genuinely worry for Joss, and how willing he is to keep going to the same old bag of tricks, and dull-as-toast cast. Kudos for Neil Patrick Harris, though, who lends this a *little* bit of interest.
Posted 07/20/2008 at 11:19:55 AMIt's hilarious that there are still anti-Whedonites.
Posted 08/17/2008 at 06:28:54 AMDon't you see? If you don't get Whedon, you don't get him.
That's a personal deficiency.
I'm always the first to toe the art-is-in-the-eye-of-the-beholder line, but if you don't like Joss Whedon you're actually incorrect.
We who appreciate the good and eschew the suck forgive you.
When you're done hating comedy, sex, tragedy, skill, and life in general, you may join us at the table of goodness.
I sit happily at the table of goodness! You can't honestly still be an Anti-Whedonite after seeing Dr. Horrible.
Naughty corner! NOW! Maybe if you're good I'll give you the keys to a shiny new Australia!
Posted 08/24/2008 at 10:59:15 AM