I thought the whole thing was totally Sondheim.

So I read the last couple hundred posts, a third of which were technical issues, so a quick read. I saw each part at 6:30am EDT without any problem.

1. Totally worth it for the joy of reading a Nilly review.

2. Just fun and playful and silly. Didn't look for or find any deep message. Wasn't offended by any tropes. This is how I choose to watch musicals.

3. Fury and Marti! That was a fun surprise.

4. Grr Arg! Should have been sung.

5. Delightful taggable lines.

6. Talented pretty actors.

7. With song.

I'm satisfied.

Is that even a spoiler, victor? Given Joss' enthusiasms.

I have this image in my mind of Nathan Fillion as Captain Hammer singing "Hard to be humble"

Which for some reason now has me imagining him singing "It's hard out here for a pimp." Verra odd.

I think if it had been more opera and less musical, the ending wouldn't have bothered me at all. As it was, it was well worth it for the apotheosis of Dr. Horrible.

Perhaps not, but I didn't want to hint at the ending.

Point taken - I edited my last post slightly in light of it.

Well from where I'm sitting, in a fairly shiny (it's raining at the moment) but somewhat used Australia , it has been satisfying in that for the first time we can actually watch (and post) a new Joss show at the same time as the rest of you, AND it has brought a return of Nillyanalysis.

moonlit, you are right. I love the fact that we all can watch at the same time.

Are we going all blackfont tomorrow?

(I need to know when to unsubscribe so I don't get spoiled.)

They went to a lot of effort for all those costumes and characters in the montage at the end, I think it was the most visually impressive thing in the series. But I think making a show for the Internet, you ought to put that at the beginning. It establishes what kind of world you're in, and it shows that you have a budget and aren't just Doogie Howser talking to the camera.

So what does it mean that the very end of the last line returns to the blog framing device? Because it seems like the import of the montage is that he's big time evil now, and his blog persona is squashed.

How did that gun blow up in Hammer's hand, and not even hurt him? I kind of liked how Horrible was ready to show some mercy even without Perfect Nice Girl pleading with his better nature (that would have been more cliche still), I liked how the lower key he sang "time for no mercy" in showed he was considering showing mercy, and I like how there was karma in that if he hadn't, his gun would have exploded on him. But it takes away from the karma that the gun, even if it had blown up in his hand, was magically attuned to harm only Penny anyway.