Since I'm home today, I finally watched Dr. Horrible, since it's on Hulu.com (which FUCKING ROCKS).
I heart Neil Patrick Harris. I heart the hell out of him.
Also, I'm beginning to see why women (and men, I'm sure) find Captain Tightpants Hammer to be attractive. (Although he was pretty much The Tick, sans the blue outfit, wasn't he? ["The hammer is my penis."])
Anyway, I went back and read the watch-and-post through Act III, but nothing after that. And w/r/t Penny's death (PLEASE tell me I don't need to spoiler-font), the only thing that bothered me about it was that Joss is turning into Pat Conroy -- he's got, like, 3 main themes that are the only things he can ever write about, and they all show up in ALL of his work, without fail. I have utterly no doubt that if Firefly had gone longer than less-than-a-season, Joss would have iced Kaylee.
So the utter lack of originality in killing YET another sweet female character just made me roll my eyes forever. Okay, Joss, we get it.
But I didn't mind, in a more general sense Penny getting killed, because (1) she bugged the SHIT out of me, and (2) she wasn't a character; she was a one-dimensional object to be attained. She was a frickking PLOT DEVICE. So kill her off, whatever.
Otherwise, the whole 3-act story gave me the giggles big time. And during the ending montage, right before Dr. H. puts on his Red Outfit Of Horrible Horribleness, I thought, "Damn, I really wanted to see Bad Horse," and then BOOM! Bad Horse!!!
And NPH kicks ass. I was rooting for him all the way, poor noodle.
Gallagher's injury is relatively minor - not career threatening. After his first start he's been very inconsistent.
As a non-follower of baseball. This makes me laugh and laugh.
As a non-follower of baseball. This makes me laugh and laugh.
Does it make you think of Gallagher the comic whacking himself inadvertently with a watermelon mallet?
Pretty much, yep.
More reviews of standup comedians ought to read like sports items.
"Carrot Top couldn't control the joke zone and his wildness effectively sank the show."
"Carlin's a crafty old lefty who can pitch to both sides of the plate."
"Pryor mowed through the audience with a breathtaking mix of power, speed and taboo-breaking stuff."
"Bruce was thrown out of the game for calling the umpire a c***sucker."
But I didn't mind, in a more general sense Penny getting killed, because (1) she bugged the SHIT out of me, and (2) she wasn't a character; she was a one-dimensional object to be attained. She was a frickking PLOT DEVICE. So kill her off, whatever.
Yeah but... that was the problem. She existed only to cause Green Lantern Dr. Horrible the Super Catalyst Man Pain. J Wee Wee went all Ron Marz. Which, oh Joss Whedon, NO.
But I didn't mind, in a more general sense Penny getting killed, because (1) she bugged the SHIT out of me, and (2) she wasn't a character; she was a one-dimensional object to be attained. She was a frickking PLOT DEVICE. So kill her off, whatever.
Yeah but... that was the problem. She existed only to cause Green Lantern Dr. Horrible the Super Catalyst Man Pain. J Wee Wee went all Ron Marz. Which, oh Joss Whedon, NO.
I know it should bother me more, but it really doesn't. Possibly that's because I was annoyed beyond belief by the character.
But also, in a less-than-45-minute story, titled "Dr Horrible's whatever," nobody's going to be as fully developed as Dr. H. Captain Hammer was one-dimensional. Moist Dude was one-dimensional (though I loved his date with Bait and Switch). Everything and everyone in the story was just a foil for Dr. Horrible. Everything got short shrift at the expense of being Dr. Horrible's supervillain origin story.
I wasn't even surprised when Penny got killed. Every "twist" ending like that makes me think of Lindsey in whatever episode it was where Dru re-vamped Darla, saying, "How did you THINK it was going to end?" Well, duh. It's Joss.
No, no one else is going to be as developed, but I cannot stand the WIR trope, and feel that if J Wee Wee wants us to think he's Enlightened Feminist Man, maybe he should avoid it. Or do something interesting with it, rather than just doing it by the four color textbooks.
If this were the only time he'd pulled that, I'd feel differently, but the soul-sucking lack of agency has happened in his other shows, and doesn't give me much hope for Dollhouse, to be frank.
