Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog Hits Primetime 95
First time accepted submitter Goat_Cheese_Pizza writes "Word on the Intertubes (I picked the Washington Post) is Joss Whedon's musical masterpiece, Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, will air on CW's primetime lineup on October 9th. I've always wanted to watch Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog with commercials! Thanks, CW!"
Re:Uhh, Yay? (Score:5, Insightful)
What makes you think that Dr. Horrible would be a bad fit with the under-18 female crowd? Since when are romantic musicals starring guys like Nathan Fillion and Neil Patrick Harris not a good fit for under-18 female viewers? Anyway, CW's prime demographic is ostensibly 18-34-old women.
Re:A letter of condemnation... (Score:5, Insightful)
The project was done during the downtime caused by the writers strike. All of the money came from Whedon and the goodwill of the various people who got involved, it was all done for fun and was released, entirely for free and without adverts. It's a superb example of something being made for free, given away, and then becoming profitable later because of its sheer popularity. It's precisely the same as a bedroom musician, entertaining blogger or a stick-figure webcomic becoming popular and suddenly pulling in some money for the artist/s.
Yes, I'd imagine that Whedon is reasonably wealthy already, but that doesn't change my enjoyment at seeing a free product earning some money a few years down the line. It's nice to see the "watch the adverts and maybe we'll include something you like" model being flipped on its head.
Re:A letter of condemnation... (Score:5, Insightful)
I hate to say it... the lyric timing is wrong in one section.
"is filled with adverts most inane" vs. "if I throw poison in the water main"
"is filled with" matches to "if I throw" and "most inane" matches to "the water main"
Which means that "adverts" (2 syllables) has to match "poison in the" (4 syllables).
TL;DR "adverts" needs to be "advertisements" to match the cadence of the original lyrics.
Re:A letter of condemnation... (Score:4, Insightful)
It's worth noting that by all rumors, Whedon (and the cast) came out quite nicely already from Dr. Horrible. Remember that it was only available online for free for a short time. Then it was sold on iTunes, then it was sold on DVD (with all sorts of quite-awesome extras). Joss made his investment back on that job.
So getting it on CW is just extra icing on the cake - especially if it's part of a larger setup for DH2 or whatever Joss' next project will be.
Re:A letter of condemnation... (Score:4, Insightful)