Yeah, we just finished watching it too. Ow. The thing that got me was, Penny dies thinking that Captain Hammer will save the day. And there's no way that Dr. Horrible can change that.
We thought that it was all really very well done, with the acting by the Dr. Horrible actor being particularly good. Also the music was surprisingly good, especially in Act 3 - the contrast between the (I assume deliberately) bad/trite "Everyone's a Hero" by Captain Hammer and the almost Sondheimesque "Slipping" really showed how complex and excellent the latter song was.
This is, I will somewhat abashedly admit, the first thing either of us has ever seen by Joss Whedon (except for the first seven minutes of Serenity, but I don't think that counts). I'm curious: how typical of his work is it?
(Funny. I was just thinking about blogging on Dr. Horrible, with the same thought about the abrupt genre change.)
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We thought that it was all really very well done, with the acting by the Dr. Horrible actor being particularly good. Also the music was surprisingly good, especially in Act 3 - the contrast between the (I assume deliberately) bad/trite "Everyone's a Hero" by Captain Hammer and the almost Sondheimesque "Slipping" really showed how complex and excellent the latter song was.
This is, I will somewhat abashedly admit, the first thing either of us has ever seen by Joss Whedon (except for the first seven minutes of Serenity, but I don't think that counts). I'm curious: how typical of his work is it?
(Funny. I was just thinking about blogging on Dr. Horrible, with the same thought about the abrupt genre change.)