I watched that Dr. Horrible web show (I’d link to it, but they’re going to pull it in about 8 hours, so there isn’t a lot of point. drhorrible.com )
It was better than I expected since it was a Joss Whedon thing and starring that Wesley Crusher wannabe. I know there are a lot of people who like Joss Whedon, but his projects really spiraled out of control when he takes his eye off the ball. Buffy disintegrated into a morass of ridiculousness when he started up Angel. And both of them tanked when he started Firefly preparations. I tend to think it doesn’t matter if I like something Whedon does, he’ll let it destroy itself through his distraction and greed. I ended up liking Dr. Horrible though. Maybe a one-hour thing is within Whedon’s preschool attention span.
The singing was pretty good. I especially liked the duet.
I loved the story idea. Where there is a supervillain origin. That’s very creative. And it demonstrated one of my current theories that we are conditioned to believe the story centers on the hero and sympathize with the focal character regardless of factual evidence. Many stories fail completely if you break free from that assumption, so having the standard story inverted and focusing on the villain was really interesting and effective.
Worth watching despite my expectations.
I was unaware that anyone wanted to be Wesley Crusher.
Comment by 28bytes — July 31, 2008 @ 9:19 pm
There’s that state of wanting to be someone and acting like you are already. That is what Wesley Crusher was always doing. But that would imply a level of success not evident.
Comment by freakolio — August 2, 2008 @ 11:28 am