Also, that was a crosspost with beth- I didn't mean to sound like I was disagreeing with you so vehemently.

No worries Sophia, I don't feel beaten on. I just was trying to explain why there was no ping for me. But I am wondering if I just don't ping easily. From your example of wall-e. I see exactly what you are saying , however -- I felt that the people on the ship were manipulated into ' being comfortable' and honestly it isn't hard to appeal to most people's lazy side. And it also helps that the concept of giant smoothies is one of those things that is an evil in the food industry. And I have a lot of guilt about food that get thrown out. But I see exactly what you are saying- but it hits annoyance level, not rage

t running into thread with my hand over my eyes

Y'all, I'm not ignoring what you wrote or anything - it's just that I didn't get to watch the 3rd part, and can't have a way to watch it now (as far as I know, the ways to pay for it now are for UnUnAmericans only, at least for now, and I'm the prude-who-wouldn't-ahem), so in order to not be spoiled, I just have to not enter this thread at all until after I watched.

Sigh.

Nilly, I haven't watched part three, and I'm betting it will be on you tube, or somewhere.

I was thinking about that yesterday, when I realized that I wasn't going to make it to work to watch it, and then I started thinking about the whole GD II incident, and how life would have been so much easier had youtube been around.

it's just that I didn't get to watch the 3rd part, and can't have a way to watch it now

Why not? It's still online at drhorrible.com.

Sophia, WRT your Wall-E reading, I had read that one of the things they were trying to get "right" is to demonstrate the long term effects of weighlessness, which leads to loss of bone structure and increased weight. For me, that explanation woulda been more compelling if the inhabitants of the ship actually experienced weightlessness.

So far the biggest takeaway from Dr. Horrible that I have is that after it finally drove me to make my first purchase on iTunes, I come to find out that my computer is a complete piece of shit and I need to buy a new one. sob

Joss answers questions: [link]

From the chat:

Arlington, VA: Does The Tick live near Dr. Horrible? Moist totally gives it away.

Joss Whedon: The Tick lives IN Dr Horrible. Ben Edlund was going to do the piece with us but had to drop out. "Bad Horse" was a character he'd pitched incessantly on Angel ("How could he make a radioactive device using only HOOVES?!?!?!?") so I wanted that in, and the first thing Ben pitched for this was Moist. But he had to bail right at the beginning. Much sadness, as he's also a great song-writer. (And has an amazing singing voice. On the serious. Get him to do an album.)

Bad Horse was totally going to be leader of the Senior Partners, I think.