Heroes Are Over With
Here’s something so insanely great I have to blabber about it again even if I’ve already featured this in my other blog.
If you haven’t heard of Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog by now, then let me introduce the lovelorn videoblogger and aspiring supervillain with a Ph.D. in “horribleness”:
“Any dolt with half a brain can see that humankind has gone insane” -Dr. Horrible (Neil Patrick Harris)
It’s #15 in TIME‘s Best Inventions of 2008 and listed among Washington Post‘s Best Viral Videos of ’08.
Apparently, the webisodes were created during the writer’s strike in America. Quoting the WP, “the video was enough to make us consider the types of things we might all be watching when we’re no longer watching TV.” And here’s something from the master himself:
The idea was to make it on the fly, on the cheap – but to make it. To turn out a really thrilling, professionalish piece of entertainment specifically for the internet. To show how much could be done with very little. To show the world there is another way. To give the public (and in particular you guys) something for all your support and patience. And to make a lot of silly jokes. Actually, that sentence probably should have come first. – Joss Whedon
So, it’s a musical about a guy whose grand ambition is not to have a high-profile job, wearing nice suits or silk ties, but to become a supervillain who will rule the world with his “evilness.” With the girl of his dreams, Penny, and his arch nemesis, Captain Hammer (a “smarmy superhero who thinks he’s all that”), they are featured in a 43-minute, three-act Internet phenomenon that is refreshing both for its silliness and awesome music. Keeping Sondheim songs in his iPod really did wonders for Joss Whedon.
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napanod ko na to hehe,
im currently listening to the songs nga eh!
love et! panodin ko din serenity and firefly hehehe
Hah! Did you notice that Penny is one of the Potentials in Buffy season 7? I think her name was Vi. [And Captain Hammer is the evil Caleb in Buffy and the lead actor in Firefly.] Many of the other extras are producers and writers of Whedon shows. I’ve read the cast was not paid to sing and act. They will just benefit from the DVD sales and stuff.