Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog (link, FFXI)

[thistlechaser]

Edit: It's been brought to my attention that Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog is being taken off the net on July 20th at midnight -- in about 24 hours as of this editing! Do not delay watching it! You don't want to miss it. :D

Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog is just... wow. I laughed more during the three 15 minute eps than I do in a month's worth of TV, and the quality of it was higher than any movie I've seen in the last year.

I love musicals. I even loved Cop Rock (raise your hand if you remember that show). The musical ep of Buffy was my favorite one of the series, so it should be no surprise that I'd love another musical done by Joss Whedon.

Neil Patrick Harris plays the main character of the story, Dr. Horrible. He's easily the cutest, nerdiest bad guy I've ever seen. I never really realized what a good actor he is. He could crack me up with a simple look, a little change in his expression, a lifting of his eyebrows. And did I mention he's sooooo cute in this?

Nathan Fillion was the hero of the story, so amazingly clueless, so stereotypical, so so so so so so funny. I think I laughed every moment he was on the screen. Felicia Day was the love-interest, and she was quite cute as well. :)

But as good as the actors were, the songs were what made it for me. They weren't just forced in, everything flowed -- it was totally believable that the characters just suddenly started singing.

So if you haven't seen it yet, go check it out! Three ~15 minute eps. I should have probably expected the ending, but I totally didn't. I'm glad I hadn't guessed, because it hit me nice and hard. :D

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In FFXI land, I campaigned enough for two more merits. Add them to the one I got yesterday, and I got my three for Dark Seal for Thursday. I also bought the most horrible looking scythe in the land (Perdu Sickle), god that looks like some BLM's little toy weapon. :/ I just have to find out what food DRK Mal used last week, then I'll be all set for the next run!

Tomorrow my stupid little racing bird turns into a teen, so we'll see if he's colored or not.

Catlove is still down. >< I'll reply to comments as soon as I can.

No clue what I'll be doing tomorrow, other than not Campaigning. </3 Campaign so much. Edit: Ha ha ha Catlove just came back up! Yay! Maybe I'll post again later with the screenshots I've been sitting on!

Comments

[kelen.livejournal.com]

I loved Dr Horrible too! Mark prodded me until I watched it today. <3 Shame they are taking it down. u.u Hope someone saved it somewhere.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Ack, they are? Why? There are tools around to save videos that you can't just right-click, save-as, I should hunt one down tomorrow. I've rewatched it a bunch of times today, I know I'll want to again in the future.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

*reads the Plan page* Bah. :/

[kelen.livejournal.com]

Yeah. u.u Man, I wish I could get the music. The end song.. <3

[firebyrd.livejournal.com]

The hammer is my penis!

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Yay, I found a way to copy it! SnagIt (http://www.techsmith.com/screen-capture.asp) is free for 30 days. The quality is about 90% of what it is on the website, but still! Better than nothing!

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Heehee. I loved how the good guy was actually rather bad (horrible, even!) and the bad guy wasn't all that bad until the good guy acted so badly to him. And the ending! The last couple seconds! Eee.

[barahir-ffxi.livejournal.com]

"So many guys forget the evil laugh. But, it's about standards."

Loved it... hated the ending at first... but after watching it a few more times.. it was right on, and made the most sense. Already bought it off iTunes. Joss definitely deserves my $3.99 for that. May buy the DVD too when it comes out just to support it and encourage more things like this happening.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Oh man, I loved the ending so much! Especially the last couple seconds! He got just what he wanted... but he had to lose what he wanted to get it. So bittersweet! And those last couple seconds where you could see how much he was hurting? And the fact that he didn't even turn into that bad of a guy until the so-called hero was enough of an ass to drive him to it? :D

Loved the whole thing so much. :D I saved it off the website, but I'm going to buy the DVD or download once it becomes available. If we do, maybe they'll make more stuff like this!

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

*laughs* The more times I watched the series, the more I came to hate him. Hero? Try bully!

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Oops! I hadn't deleted your comment email so you got two replies across a couple days!

[firebyrd.livejournal.com]

*grins* He was pretty bad, all right. So egotistical!

[firebyrd.livejournal.com]

I never got the notification from the first one, so no worries!