"That's the plan/Rule the world/You and me/Any day!"
You can't possibly be hearing about Doctor Horrible's Sing-Along Blog for the first time via this website, but I'll pretend you are, and link to it anyway. Go there, because I pretty much guarantee a good time.
It's Joss Whedon's internet-only musical about a supervillain and his frustrating life and unsatisfactory relationships, with his laundromat crush and nemesis. It stars Whedon stalwarts Nathan Fillion and my internet crush Felicia Day (from Buffy Season 7, duh), and Neil Patrick Harris as Doctor Horrible himself.
It was being compared to Soon I Will Be Invincible before I even got there, so I don't feel bad saying I felt a lovely frisson from NPH's brilliant performance. And the way the role is written, that intense close-up address to the camera, that tight zoom at the end of Act II. I've always thought of NPH as a supervillain ever since I saw his incandescent performance as a defiant law-student villain in a long-ago episode of Homicide (I think it was? I don't even watch that show), something of which made it into the DNA of Doctor Impossible.
Joss Whedon's writing isn't mine - it's a little broader and he doesn't overthink the way I do and um I didn't write a musical - but let's just say I can get behind the sentiment - the love triangle, the isolated loser-mastermind, all the performances, and a couple of JoCo-caliber lyrics.
"And Penny will see, the evil me
Not a joke, Not a dork, Not a failure
And she may cry
But her tears will dry
When I hand her the keys
To a shiny new Australia"
I didn't really mean this post to be a review or a fanboy rant. He's just in the Whedonesque mode here, genre fix and actual emotion just melted together into Ben&Jerry style deliciousness. I rewatched several times, but each time it all went by in a blur of pleasurable awesome. Go watch!
5 comments:
Yeah, it's great stuff. The comparisons are obvious, of course, since Dr. Horrible and Dr. Impossible are both would-be world-conquering mad scientists. Dr. Horrible, though, just can't seem to get any traction, poor guy.
Dr DreadFul makes a YouTube Riposte to Dr Horrible -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hP_6Dlvk0Xs
Wow, Joss Whedon said in New York Magazine that Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog was probably influenced by the title of your book, Austin. Now that's darn cool. I wonder if he could be tricked into reading it.
Holy cow, thanks J-WISB! I guess if I see him at the con, I'll ask him to read it. Shouting, as security guards drag me from the room.
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