Two words;
Doctor Horrible.My 'Beatle Mania' over all things Joss Whedo
n has taken on a whole new level. I've transcended into some higher plane of existence.
What is Dr. Horrible? Well, from the Facebook page it is, " 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."
It stars Doogie Howser (uh Neil Patrik Harris) as Dr. Horrible and Nathan Fillion (aka my Captain) as The Hammer. Oh and it's a "Sing-A-Long Blog".
This all started thanks to the WGA Strike. Here's Joss's answer (from the Dr. Horrible site) as to how it came to pass; "Once upon a time, all the writers in the forest got very mad with the Forest Kings and declared a work-stoppage. The forest creatures were all sad; the mushrooms did not dance, the elderberries gave no juice for the festival wines, and the Teamsters were kinda pissed. (They were very polite about it, though.) During this work-stoppage, many writers tried to form partnerships for outside funding to create new work that circumvented the Forest King system.
Frustrated with the lack of movement on that front, I finally decided to do something very ambitious, very exciting, very mid-life-crisisy. Aided only by everyone I had worked with, was related to or had ever met, I single-handedly created this unique little epic. A supervillain musical, of which, as we all know, there are far too few.
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. "
