We've watched the first two acts of Dr. Horrible's Sing-a-long Blog and are totally in love with Joss all over again. In some ways Joss is in familiar territory, here. Dr. Horrible is half Jonathan (geeky supervillain wanna be) and half Mal (decent person made into a bad guy because the existing moral order is corrupt). But there's singing! And funny! The letters Dr. Horrible receives after applying to be in a supervillain group are hysterical. They're like the letters you get when you apply to college, except they're sung. By cowboys. And they exhort you to murder. Oh yeah, and the cowboys are poking their heads in from the edge of the camera frame. Great stuff.
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I would gladly have Joss's two-headed love child. Or Mal's....mmm, capt. Mal....
But the ending was so sad. Also, I find myself now cranky about NPH's sexual preference; gay men should have the courtesy to be unappealing to me.
The ending made me really sad and, but it was really well done. SPOILERS I liked the way it rounded out the play of genres. We knew we were watching a musical, a superhero show, and a romantic comedy, but with the last sequence, we realize that we are watching a very specific superhero show: the origin story for a supervillain.
The one thing that bothered me is that it fits Joss's general pattern of mostly killing off female characters to get the audience crying. I know why he uses the general strategy of making you fall in love with a character and then killing them. But in every show but the Serenity movie, he has done this exclusively to female characters.
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