The LA Times has a follow up on the success of Joss Whedon’s Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog. We got to watch it early yesterday morning and found it rather charming. Anyway, lots of people ended up wanting to watch it and Whedon didn’t have enough bandwidth to cover the amount of traffic the short generated. Hopefully, before part two they address those issues. “The things that have hit on the Internet have almost all had that quality,” Whedon wrote to me. “From ‘Star Wars’ kid, to ‘The Landlord,’ to 1,500 prisoners doing ‘Thriller.’ Not just the I-made-it-myself aesthetic, but the truly, transcendently goofy. The absurd (which is important to me, as an Absurdist) is part of the Internet’s identity.” And Dr. Horrible is absurdly goofy and def. worth your time.
Finally! Joss Whedon’s internet only musical, Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, starring Neil Patrick Harris, Nathan Fillion and some other people (who cares about them right?) has finally gone live. Well, part one anyways. So far we’re enjoying the hell out of it. Look for Part II and III to go live on July 17 and 19, respectively. Head here for part one, you won’t be sorry.
For those few readers that stick it out around here day to day, you probably have an inkling about my anticipation for anything and everything Joss Whedon. And when you throw in Neil Patrick Harris and Nathan Fillion into the mix for a superhero musical, well, my anticipation gasket just about blew.
We finally have a trailer for Joss’s Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog. If you remember, “It’s the story of a low-rent super-villain, the hero who keeps beating him up, and the cute girl from the laundromat he’s too shy to talk to,” Whedon says.
The goggles on NPR are perfect and as someone who has been to one of those Buffy “Once More With Feeling” sing-along musical episodes held at a theater (yes, dear internet you’ve taken my last shred of dignity), I can attest that Joss knows his musicals.
Look for this to hit the internet sometime this summer, broken up into three ten-minute chapters.
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