Doctor Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog

I thought this was a wonderful idea, three free episodes broadcast over a week making for some good entertainment.

Its a shame that Joss Whedon is a rare case that this could happen with very few of the people involved actrually getting paid.

The whole thing started off a bit slow but by the end of episode three I really cared about the characters and cried when slayer Vi died.

I wish more writee/auter types would play with the idea of free online content as Joss has been playing with the ideas for a while, doing a free online comic for dark horse called ‘Sugar Rush’ (i think) and the online comic that goes with Doctor Horrible.

I hope this isnt the last we hear of the Whedon brothers as I feel they make a good team.

My one gripe is that Joss used a trick that he has done many times now, when things are happyish and there is high emotion and loud noise and lots going on and then suddenly cuts to a silent one shot of some ones face, he did it twice in Buffy, i think he did it in Firefly and not too sure about Angel. Its effective but, seen it now, show us a new trick.

dang and blast my shitty computer

i got to see ep1, but dear lappy gave up and died whilst trying to stream ep2, and i didn’t even get chance to see ep3 - I, like you have a strange magentism towards free things, but seeing as Dr Horrible is no longer free as a tweeter i doubt i shall ever see the last 2/3 of this hilarious and visually exciting piece

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Personally, I didn’t think the third episode was very good, so please feel better in thinking you didn’t miss much. (Although … episode two was pretty darn good! So maybe you should be feeling half-bum?) Neil Patrick Harris said in an interview that they were working on a CD with lots of extras (groan), so it’ll probably all be uploaded on YouTube soon. I saw a snippet on TV and it really looked different. Unfortunately, Harris’s singing voice doesn’t translate so well onto a bigger screen with much better sound. Over here on my blog, I’m running a Dr. Horrible poll. If you’re feeling bored and feel like roaming, please come and vote at http://tvkitty.blogspot.com/2008_07_01_archive.html!

I think the extras sound awesome, a sing along commentary!!!!

You have a rather niffty blog, if you ever feel like writing a piece for us just send it over to [email protected] and we will link it up to your own blog too.

Thanks so much for the invite! If I see anything being done here on this side of the Atlantic that you all should be aware of, I’ll send something along. Unfortunately, I think Hollywood is having a very dry period at the moment. Too many strikes.

Only a dry period for now, you have the excitment of pilot season coming up over the next few weeks and then you get to do it all over again in January whilst we here in the UK just get the dregs of what you lot get to see. Would be awesome to have a first hand impression of Fringe and Heroes season 3 etc with out the taint of previews and reviews that we all get.

There’s no such thing as too many strikes. Blame the bosses, not the unions.

Heroes Season 3 will be on the BBC within a week of the US timetable.

But a week is like a million years in internet time, Aint it cool news will have at least 20 reviews after the first hour of its premier.

And darn tootin strikes are good and the writers needed to do it, I wish they had done it for longer to really fuck off the studios.

The height of real creativity in US TV happened about three, four years ago with shows like Lost, Battlestar Galactica, Deadwood, Weeds, etc. These shows really changed the way Hollywood told stories. Most of these shows aired on cable BTW, and couldn’t have happened without The Sopranos, Curb Your Enthusiasm, and Seinfeld. Now, most shows are just rehashes of rehashes. I mean, even Lost is a rehash of Lost, if you know what I mean. And I can’t tell you how many vampire shows there are now. Even HBO is doing one called True Blood, which they’ve promoted by putting up fake ads for blood drinks all over L.A. One of the executive producers of this one is Alan Ball, the guy behind Six Foot Under. The latest theme is people who can read other people’s minds. True Blood has both — vampires and mind-readers! I’m not looking forward to it.

It is interesting to me how the supernatural/sci fi genre has become even chic. Lasse Hallstrom actually directed the pilot episode of New Amsterdam, which is a rehash of Highlander. Hallstrom directed one of my favorite movies, My Life as a Dog. I suppose it’s not surprising Alan Ball is doing vampires. You write about people dying…next step people coming out of their coffins?

And as for strikes, I am for them and did my share of honking at “Honk if you’re for the writers’ strike” signs. BUT it does have a way of shutting down productions and killing projects that will never see the light of day again and people losing their jobs and having their homes foreclosed, which can have good results, like Dr. Horrible and The Guild, Felicia Day’s personal project (available on YouTube and “interesting” to watch).

Talking about rehashes, the US is rehashing other cultures to the hilt (they’ve always done it, but not with the current speed and voraciousness). Since the US Office did so well, now they’re doing a US Kath and Kim, which looks HORRIBLE, and I hear there are even plans for Gavin and Stacy. I suppose I should be grateful that they never got a US AbFab off the ground.

Am I talkin’ too much? Sorry!

Which is to say, I’m not looking forward to the pilot season!

My sister has recently gotten into Supernatural. It’s complete crap as far as I can tell. Basically a recruitment video for humourless Christian fundamentalists.