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.

I can't believe that no one commented that Dr. Horrble was named BILLY! Like every other male person Joss Whedon has named!

WRT feminist rage issues, I think it is interesting that Joss Whedon started out wanting to tell the story of a girl with agency, and has moved on to men-- I felt that Mal was the "Buffy" of Firefly and this had no Buffy-- it was Angel?Riley and Spike- with, like, Chantarelle.

Oh Part 3, why'd you have to go there? Oh right, because JOSS HAS ISSUES WITH THIS SORT OF THING AND DOES IT ALL THE FUCKING TIME.

Plei speaks for me on this, pretty much, up to and including the massive NPH lurve that made it all worth it regardless of things which may or may not be in shouty capslock whitefont above.

Huh.

That took a little while to digest but I'm definitely going with two thumbs up. Things that I was annoyed by, I think were on purpose. After the second act, I wanted to watch the whole thing many times. The third act took a little of that joy and enthusiasm away. Although it was nice seeing all the cameos.

All told, it was all worth it for the NPH.

So much THIS.