Dr. Horrible's Sing A-Long Blog

[donutsweeper]

Part three is up. I'm curious what you all thought of it. 

Joss has reaffirmed my opinion of him with the ending, which is not a good thing.  Sigh.

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[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

Neil Patrick Harris was truly incredible. Some of the looks he gives when he's doing his blog- that vague confusion and steely determination- were just great!

[joonscribble.livejournal.com]

Thanks to the general humor and acting, it's a movie that's ridiculously icon-worthy.

I sort of want Whedon to continue with a series of this, but I'm also incredibly wary that he'll take whatever is left sunny and break it into a billion traumatized pieces.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

it's very icon-worthy *nods*

yeah- Whedon's very good at taking your hope and expectation and desires and building them up before attaching them all to a big ol' bomb and nuking them out of existence.

[joonscribble.livejournal.com]

The man has PROBLEMS.

No, not really. I think he maybe just enjoyed snorting the Angst Coke so much that he's now addicted to it beyond a healthy level.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

Seriously- it's like he figures out what would make the fans most happy and then, just when it looks like he's going to deliver it, jerks the rug out from under us all with a "Ha!"

I think Toy Story might be the only time he didn't do that, but he certainly made it almost seem like he did. But Buffy, Angel, Serenity, and now Dr. Horrible? Angst city

[joonscribble.livejournal.com]

I didn't know he wrote Toy Story! Well...that certainly explains the angst-ish quality I started to feel when everyone talked about how they were the forgotten toys. But yeah, at least that had a happy ending. Had he written that now, Woody and the gang probably would have gotten sold off in some lawn sale and separated for the rest of their toy lives.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

I just looked it up again to be sure and yes, he did the screenplay for it. One would hope, that as a kids movie, he'd have been able to stick to the happy ending, but we all know he wouldn't have if tptb let him get away with it.

His stuff's getting a little silly now. There is nothing wrong with a 'they all lived happily ever after' ending. Really

[joonscribble.livejournal.com]

I feel like for awhile Whedon was the guy whose work you wanted to watch b/c he did angst very well. But then somewhere in the middle of Buffy and toward the end of Angel, it got to be like Angst Porn. I wouldn't say it started to get boring, but it was more like I started to wonder if Whedon secretly had begun to hate all his characters and wanted to make them suffer.

And you're right. A simple "Happily Ever After" wouldn't go unappreciated at this point.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

Angst Porn That's perfect. It describes his stuff to a T.

I also wonder if it's his evil way of messing with fanfic writers. Altering canon and messing with things just so we pull our hair out

[joonscribble.livejournal.com]

I also wonder if it's his evil way of messing with fanfic writers. Altering canon and messing with things just so we pull our hair out.

Hell, I object to that as a viewer, never mind a fic writer.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

true, true. But there is a reason we now have the term "Jossed" isn't there? *grumbles* frustrating little so-and-so