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Oh Noes! Joss Whedon is onto my plans…

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I know, I know I’m late to the party and almost missed it.

I love Joss Whedon, I like Nathan Fillion and I have a schoolboy crush on Felicia Day (She’s Codex from The Guild).

Add that Dougie Howser guy (Neil Patrick Harris) and you got the weirdest, geekiest thing ever created (yeah I’m in the middle of a geekout… I’ll go watch some Baseball after that to calm down)

Just go see Dr. Horrible Sing-Along Blog. It’s up until tomorrow night.

As Joss puts it:

A supervillain musical, of which, as we all know, there are far too few.

I love me an Evil Overlord Musical love Story…

By the Way.. I’m supporting this 100% and bought it on iTunes. Not because I want to see it after it’s gone from the official site (though I certainly will), but because I want to support a different distribution model of visual medial.

This 45 minutes of bliss is easily worth 6$ to me.

Comments

  1. The true joy in this, for me, was not simply seeing another gem from Joss or from Nathan… No, it was because about a year back I ran a two part M&M game.

    In part one, my players played the villains. For part two, they played the heroes. One of my player’s created a mad scientist villain who had a relationship with the hero not unlike the one seen here. Heck, Dr. Horrible dresses, talks, and sounds like the villain character… we didn’t sing though.

    The running gag was that the hero could never remember his name. But not us players, long will we remember the machinations of DOCTOR DAMNATION(tm)!

  2. Coolness squared Ish!

    I really, really have to get M&M a read over.

    Anyone running a M&M game at Gen Con on Saturday PM?

  4. I heard about this on friday and watched it all over saturday night/sunday morning. It is by far the best thing I’ve seen in a while (and I just watched hellboy 2 last week). I love the fact that this is going out in a different form of distribution and that it is something put together for the love of the story as opposed to the profitability. I’m definitely supporting ventures like this in any way I can.

  6. Act III is up as well. They are getting pulled tomorrow. My buddy and I bought shirts (Dr. Horrible Fan club) that we are going to wear to Gencon.

  9. Hey Chatty,

    If you want to give M&M a tryout, you can find games for it in PbP at http://plothook.net. Heck, you can find most games here. I just joined a BASIC D&D game! Also playing nWoD, 3.5 (several), and 4th. Its a good place to hang out and get in some games that don’t take up a lot of time all at once. Though if you need immediate satisfaction, this isn’t for you.

  11. I watched it online, but will buy it so my partner (who is in Japan at the moment, without broadband) can watch it when she gets here. It was very funny.

    I still object to Joss Whedon’s focus on musicals though. To me a minute of musical(ness) is a minute of decent film/tv/breath wasted. That episode of Buffy with the singing was good, but only because it was buffy. I just hate musicals.

    flashhearts last blog post..The world of “Compromise and Conceit”

  12. One word: wow! That was so cool… A very enjoyable show. I hope that there will be more work of that kind from them soon. So much tropes….. i’m still crying from laughing 😉

  13. “…Because the status is NOT quo…the world is a mess and I just need to rule it.”

    Just fantastic…worth every penny of that $4 on iTunes…

  14. You know if you’re late to the party that means I technically missed it. The last thing that had me this blown away was CWs Reaper. Great show. Got my husband to watch this with me though and now he won’t stop singing.

    God in heaven help me, I’m a villain ho, and this was villain ho heaven.

  16. well, ah, at least I’m not an appliancist! I don’t know how I hate musicals, I think it’s genetic. I just really hate them, they make me cringe. Maybe I was forced to watch too many as a kid (my Dad likes Gilbert and Sullivan). They just make me cringe, even in the undoubtedly skilled care of Joss Whedon.

    flashhearts last blog post..The world of “Compromise and Conceit”

  17. I nominally hate musicals but Dr. Horrible was just too awesome.

    That final was so unforeseen… and yet so right that I’d have taken at least 2 more Tim Ricish songs and loved it!

  18. Those were awesome. And the songs were fantastic. I enjoyed musicals well enough, but I was shocked when I liked Moulin Rouge so much and since then I’ll always give them a chance. (Check out Flight of the Conchords…hehe)

    Then again, since Firefly I’d give anything Whedon(only one E!) does a chance.

  19. I dunno that I’d call FotC a “muscial” thing really… it’s a comedy that uses music. Or perhaps that is to fine a line. In general, I don’t like musicals. The musical Buffy episode… eh *Shrug*. This however. This I loved.

    It amused me to no end that his middle plot was foiled because “Captain Hammer and the LAPD are subscribers”. Hehe.

  20. I’m so glad I caught this! Somehow I have been oblivious to it until I saw the post here.

    I watched the whole thing about three times. I wanted to make sure I got my fill before it was pulled. Now I am eagerly waiting for the future DVD release. (Which will apparently have a commentary track done all in song.)

  21. I was a bit worried that it would have been too old hat for you guys. I’m glad a few caught it just in time.

    I will watch again tonight and will definitively transfer this to my ipod!

  22. Flight of the Conchords is a folk-comedy duo that also happens to have a TV show…not sure it you can quite consider it a musical since they kind of jam their songs into the show, in sometimes irrelevant ways…they find excuses for them, but they’re still pretty out-of-place sometimes…(i.e. Rhymenoceros meets Hiphopopatomus)…

  23. I’ve never seen FotC, however I am aparently the only person in North America who loved Eagle versus Shark which, as I understand it, is by the same guys.

    I’m also a big musical fan, by way of being a absolutle lover of live theater in general. Heck, I’m watching My Fair Lady right now….

  24. Dr. Horrible rocked. 🙂 I would have totally missed it except they bought up some banner adds in a few places I frequent. And I saw Felicia Day mention the project when I was hunting up episodes of The Guild awhile back so I clicked on the link on Saturday and saw it all at once.

    Musicals are… odd. I never thought I would like one. Describe something as “a musical” and I usually cringe. Then in high school I saw Miss Saigon performed and that was confusingly awesome. But I didn’t really see another musical until the Buffy musical episode. Somehow I don’t see too many of them so I keep resetting to the cringing before I see another but every one I’ve seen so far has been pretty amazing. I’d guess they’re rarer because they just end up asking more of the author, cast and crew than a normal performance.

  25. Rent, Spam-A-Lot, Wicked, Rocky Horror Show, Sweeny Todd, and many others should be enough to dispell the notion that every musical is The Sound of Music.

    My personally theory on why people hate musicals is because the only ones they’ve ever been exposed to are the bloody Von Trappe family, those dang Disney flicks, and whatever their sixth grade chorus director forced them to suffer through.

    Heck, I’m willing to bet a pretty GP or two that I could make just about anyone enjoy opera, if I got them tickets tot he right show.

  26. @Ish –

    I doubt the opera part, at least with any sort of traditional opera.

    I personally don’t enjoy shows I can’t understand, whether that is because of muffled voices and bad microphones, or due to it being a foreign language.

    Sure, the music might be alright (I’m not a huge fan), but I’d be going for the show, not a concert.

    Additionally, vibrado in the higher registers tends to grate on my nerves if not done pretty much perfectly (actual, physical pain if it’s loud enough and bad enough), so I’ve avoided opera shows thus far.

    Some of the more modern, english operas might be alright, but even then many are closer to musicals anyways.

    Still think you could get me to enjoy (traditional) opera?

    EDIT: Also, what’s wrong with Disney movies? I loved those cartoons.

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