The Writers Guild of America strike of 2008 might have caused the death of some tv series, fragmented others while they went on a forced hiatus, but there was some good that came out of it (and I am not just talking of increased revenue for writers). Joss Whedon (with his brothers and friends) created an online musical during the void that is now on DVD.
Dr Horrible/Billy (Neil Patrick Harris from Starship Troopers) is a supervillain (but really very evil) who lives with his side-kick Moist (Simon Helberg from Big Bang Theory), is secretly in love with Penny (Felicia Day from Buffy The Vampire Slayer) from the Laundromat, publicly at war with his arch-nemesis Captain Hammer (Nathan Fillion from Serenity, who has a great smarmy smile), and doing his best to be accepted in to the Evil League of Evil (led by Bad Horse, who is a horse).
And Penny will see the evil me
Not a joke not a dork not a failure
And she may cry but her tears will dry
When I hand her the keys to a shiny new Australia
Most people like music but, quite legitimately hate musicals. Dr Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog may be the one that changes their mind. It is better than I thought a musical could be. Much better. I think it is far supperior to Joss’ musical episode of Buffy The Vampire Slayer. This is a funny, corny, tragic, dramatic, and quite revealing study of the motives of heroes and villains. The DVD extras include a whole new song track about the writer’s strike.
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