Whatever your views of Dr. Horrible, the end is still incredibly
horrific.
Even if
Penny was just some ideal non-person to Billy/Dr. Horrible, in the end, despite his full embrace of the Evil League of Evil, in the end, there he is at his blog, totally undone. And a part of me thinks that's even more awful than if she'd been a non-non-person to him. Maybe that's messed up, but if she was just some object, some ideal to be won/captured/obtained, and the loss of that ideal object devestated him, then I don't see anything/anyone else ever being capable of replacing her. In her non-specificness, she was everything, if that makes sense (it almost does in my head, so I'm running with it), whereas if he'd loved her for her, then her loss was a singularity, and there is still hope and love in the rest of humanity. But it was all wrapped up in this Penny person, and now that's/she's gone.
Juliebird, I think that
if she was just an object to him, he wouldn't be so sad, he'd just find a new object. I get the feeling that he was trying to power through on the high of beating his enemy and the accolades and success, but found that it wasn't enough.
But, that could totally be my romantic take on it.
Maybe
she wasn't just an object to him, but he decided he loved her before they even spoke. That's pretty unrealistic.
I like Juliebird's take
in that Penny was larger than life to him. In actuality they had very little in common, and it may never have worked out. But in his mind, she was his end-all, be-all, and now the real Penny is no longer around to correct his way overblown idealistic portrait of her.
Penny's the cheerleader at the beginning of the movie that the scrawny nerd would give his right eyetooth to date. Then he finds out all she cares about is shopping and hair products, and he'd much rather canoodle with his bespectacled, overall wearing lab partner, who also likes D & D and fixing old cars. Only in this movie, the cheerleader dies in the first scene.
Chat with NPH on the Post's website - [link]
Just when I thought I couldn't love NPH more.
There's a WhedonTube?
It's a Whedon.info née Buffy.nu spinoff site.
Dr. Horrible got a plug in Daily Candy today.
Nerd alert: I'm sitting waiting for the Dr. Horrible panel while wearing my Dr. Horrible t-shirt.
