Thanks for the link! Made me realize just how much I miss Joss Whedon. His songwriting skills haven't evolved much since Buffy's musical, but since I love that episode, they still work for me. Looking forward to the next two installments!
Seriously? The songs in this and Buffy may sound a little amateur because of quality of some of the singing and the orchestrations, but I think he musicalizes situations more intelligently than many to most people writing for the stage at the moment.
He also, to me, proves there's a way to film a musical without apologizing for it, without making a gimmick to explain the singing away.
These comments stem from both this episode and Buffy's "Once More With Feeling."
Wait, you say "without making a gimmick to explain the singing away", then cite the Buffy episode? LOL, frankly!
The thing that bothers me about this is an incredibly small and petty thing; once again, people are going to start crawling around the internet going "I love musicals, Joss Whedon is brilliant!". And I can't stop myself wanting to die a little more every day whenever someone says that. Which they constantly do whenever he churns out a mere forty-odd minutes of musical every few years.
(Which is probably the same speed Adam Guettel works at, now I think of it. Good job he's a better composer...)
"Which is probably the same speed Adam Guettel works at, now I think of it. Good job he's a better composer..."
Oh God, would that he were a better composer. I just can't believe he sprang from the loins of anyone related to Richard Rodgers. I find his stuff boring, tedious and pretentious.
Weedon may be no Rodgers but he gives Hammerstein and Hart a run for their money. His songs can be very clever (and yes, some can be very flat but H 2.0 had some clinkers too).
Has anyone been able to get this onto their ipod? I bought a "season pass" on iTunes, and it downloaded onto my laptop but doesn't seem to have synced to my ipod. (I was just wondering if there was a reason for that, other than my faulty technological skills.)
For what it was -- three webisodes rather than a full-blown musical or television episode -- Dr. Horrible worked very well for me. The songs aren't stuck in my head the way the songs from Once More With Feeling were, but they worked. I'll be interested in seeing what extras surface where.