I didn't love the first part. Hammer perfunctorily knocking her into the garbage while "saving" her was funny, as was Horrible's line commenting on it. But the rest really felt like half an episode. Introducing a character in the last five minutes? It didn't arc right. If it were a series, I'd just say "good, the pilot and all the introductions are out of the way, now let's see what it's really gonna be like," but it's just three parts.

I didn't enjoy any of the songs except for the singing telegram , which was super. Maybe if I were a musical connoisseur I'd be all, "Wow, look how he bent down to that minor key," but I wasn't nearly tempted to sing along like with the Buffy musical.

I do like Felicia Day, wouldn't even have recognized her if someone hadn't linked me to The Guild just this month. The best episode of that that I saw (#5) was a lot funnier and in some ways more Jossy than this Dr. Horrible thing.

okay, so when can we start using quotes as taglines?

Dibs on "the hammer is my penis"!

I am LOVING this show! Who knew that watching Andrew and Riley fight over Anne could be this entertaining?

About that make your voice sound on key thing a ma jij-

you have to have a pretty voice to start with, right. That is, if you sing on key but the tone of your voice is not the best, it won't really help?

Is it just me or one of Penny's dresses in act 2 looks like Snow White's dress?

Also, I enjoyed act 2 more than act 1. And also listened to it on repeat for the better part of the morning.

Hey, when's the soundtrack will be released (there will be one, right?)? Because apparently I can't sing 2 voices at the same time. Not fair.

I've got another thoughts, but I have to work...

Edit: didn't know if that counts as spoiler or not, better white than sorry.

I liked Act II better than Act I. So. Much. Fun. He sporked himself!

Suddenly, I can't wait for the DVD. From the Master Plan:

And somewhat later, we will put the complete short epic out on DVD – with the finest and bravest extras in all the land. We’ll go into greater detail about that at Comiccon, but we’re changing the face of Show Friendliness a second time with that crazy DVD.

Remember when Cindy posted Jeff Pruitt's allegory about the kingdom and the knight? I wonder if Joss had that in mind when he was writing his Master Plan for this series:

1) Why, Joss? Why? Why now, why free, why us?

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.

There's a entry in Matt Roush's TV Guide blog about Dr. Horrible (warning: spoils some casting) [link]

On the DVDs: We're actually going to do, in addition to the commentary, what we refer to as ‘commentary with an exclamation point'! A musical commentary that is a completely original musical, that is all commentary songs, and we're writing that now." As I gasped at that audacious notion, he continued: "We're just piling it on. We're like, we're going to make more fun of the idea of extras than anything else."

HA!

I am all over sparkly pink hearts for this show! And I kind of want to claim "hand her the keys to a shiny new Australia" as my tagline.

Do we know when the dvd will be out?