Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog Hits Primetime 95
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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!"
Mwahahahahahahahahahahaha! Ahaaahaaa! (Score:5, Funny)
Mwahahahahahahahahahahaha! Ahaaahaaa!
Re:Mwahahahahahahahahahahaha! Ahaaahaaa! (Score:4, Funny)
standards...
SEQUEL PLEASE (Score:2)
So, serious question: Is this a stunt? Is there going to be a sequel? Please let this be an excuse to announce a sequel.
Last I heard [wired.com] they were pretty far into it; could they have already filmed it? Does anyone know if it would have fit into the major players' schedules since March?
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I asked John Scalzi if he was going to be part of DH2; nope.
Bummer.
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Re:Yay, but ... (Score:4, Funny)
the CW? Really?
Well given that the current line up on any channel seems to be based on randomly drawing names out of a hat (wrestling on syfi, "paranormal" BS on history etc) I'd say that CW is an appropriate location for a Joss Whedon production.
Re:Yay, but ... (Score:4, Informative)
That said, Comedy Central would be slightly more appropriate for the Sing-Along Blog.
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What the heck is CW?
Uhh, Yay? (Score:2)
I'm not quite sure how to respond to this. This is good for Joss Whedon, I guess?
It just seems odd to air a 4 year old one-off production like this. Especially since the CW's primary demographics are essentially the under-18 female crowd. I don't see how the CW is a good fit for Dr. Horrible, especially since they're having to edit it.
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It just seems odd to air a 4 year old one-off production like this
... except that it's been hinted at for a long time that a sequel is in the works. Perhaps it's going prime time because the CW (or their parent company) is planning to give the Whedons the funding for a movie / TV series.
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Dunno about CW, but Joss did say at a ComiCon interview that his next project was going to be a Dr Horrible 2. Can't picture how that's going to work, but I've got faith in the guy.
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Re:Uhh, Yay? (Score:5, Funny)
And they'll bring back Felicia Day's character and then kill her over and over...
That was Eureka
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I thought that was South Park.
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There is a statute of limitations for spoiler alerts, you know?
http://www.dorktower.com/2012/05/23/puny-spoiler-dork-tower-23-05-12/ [dorktower.com]
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There's no statute of limitations on spoilers for cult movies.
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Don't let folks know that Eddie doesn't make it in Rocky Horror?
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Exactly. I didn't know that.
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.
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Having just watched Act 1, I agree wholeheartedly.. it looks like basically a quirky romantic comedy.
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Sometimes there's a third, even deeper, level and that one is the same as the top surface.
Like a pie!
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It's an American Broadcast Television Network... like ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, FOX... CW is the newest of them I believe, but it's been around a while. It's the network that Buffy moved to for the final two seasons. It features shows like "Smallville", "Vampire Diaries", and a bunch of other teen shows that I don't really watch.
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My daughter is 11 and she thinks Doctor Horrible is great.
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Especially since the CW's primary demographics are essentially the under-18 female crowd.
But NPH is so hot. Too bad he's taken.
Edited down? (Score:1)
The episodes will have any sections of exposition cut from them. ... and be shown in the wrong order.
Re:Edited down? (Score:5, Funny)
The episodes will have any sections of exposition cut from them. ... and be shown in the wrong order.
No, that's on Fox.
A letter of condemnation... (Score:5, Funny)
Can see that human kind has gone insane,
To the point where something free
Which is loved by you and me
Is filled with adverts most inane.
Listen close to Joss's bank account,
Hear that tinkling sound,
Cash and cheques are falling all about,
Whedon's profit bound!
(Seriously, they all deserve a little pay-back for what was a free project to start with, fair enough!)
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"I try to discover
A little something to make me sweeter,
Oh baby refrain...."
Sorry, couldn't be avoided.
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I hope that dumping your anger here makes you more pleasant to those around you in real life.
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*golf clap*
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.
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So that sort of conflicts with the notion of it being done, "for fun".
And, "given away free". Usually when something is given away, it is not charged for later. If I make a nice bookshelf "for fun" and "give it away free" to my aunt, it's not really great form to call her up later and tell her she owes me $10,000.
And I certainly cannot later say I "deserve" that $10,000.
Re:A letter of condemnation... (Score:4, Insightful)
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.
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I don't know what the Horrible Singing Blog is, and it may indeed turn out to be one of the canonical and transcendental works art in Western Civilization, but statistically 100% of artists (+ or - .1%) do their work for free every day. This Josh Whedon needs to be the exception? Really?
I assume the phrasing "they all deserve a little pay-back [sic]*" is referring to it being a good show. And it is a good show, and some of us would like to see more like it.
Disclaimer: I purchased both the DVD and music CD.
* pay-back has a negative connotation and should be phrased differently.
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Yup, I meant "they all deserve a little money for their efforts", you're right, clumsy use of "pay-back".
Pay-back is Hell.
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OK, this is the part I object to. "Deserve".
They did the project "for free" and "for fun" but now they "deserve" a "little money".
Deserving money for something you made for fun and gave away free seems to be a strange view of the entitlements of success.
And if you were a really big fan of Whedon, is him getting money for something he did years ago and gave away free the most effective way to encourage future good work?
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Doctor Horrible's Sing-Along Blog has been well received and in my humble opinion I see nothing wrong with them cashing in on it a bit.
If an artist makes something and no one enjoys it, they get no pay. But when they make something that people enjoy then they do typically receive monetary compensation
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Nor do I. My objection was to the word "deserve".
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If as you say it was "made for fun" and then "given away for free" then that should be no problem.
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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.
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Lighten up Frances.
Enlighten a poor non-USian... (Score:2)
... what is CW?
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One Google later ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_CW_Television_Network [wikipedia.org]
The "CW" name is derived from the first letter of the names of these corporations (CBS and Warner Bros.).
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Whats left of the WB
and UPN.
Re:Joss Whedon (Score:5, Funny)
Joss Whedon - He was the actor that played that kid from the new Star Wars, right?
Yes.
Coincidentally, his twin sister, Will, played Buffy in that Twilight movie.
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Will Whedon--didn't he play Wesley Crusher?
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You have absolutely no proof of that.
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Well if you did it correctly (Score:3)
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Hmm, trying to come up with a list of appropriate sponsors:
Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog presented by TCBY..
Stanley: For all your tool needs, including hammers.
Lotion and/or wet wipes commercials.
JCPenney announcing a new line of sweater vests.
PSA for the Second Harvest Food Bank or your local homeless shelter.
Does any toy company make an R/C van?
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I'm not impressed (Score:5, Funny)
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Really - I looked it up.
And the data was confusing, but the show wasn't bad - it even had a computer in it.
Re:in case youre curious (Score:4, Interesting)
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And lots of pretty average people hated things that you liked. Which also isn't exactly earth shattering news.
If you like that style of thing it's great, if you don't the unsurprisingly you won't like it.
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Of course it is. Joss Whedon is terrible.
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It's pretty awesome. I have no idea what you're even talking about. It's brilliant. Hilarious. Touching. Entertaining.
Good for the Interwebs. Maybe. (Score:2)
I don't watch CW and won't watch because Internet culture is on it. But it's probably a good thing, in the short term, for a quirky Web-only product (albeit with major names doing it) to become a feeder for big money entertainment. I think.
What TV should learn:
-- we should let creative people do things creatively without focus groups and demographic analysis
What TV will learn.
-- More goggles! We need more goggles!
A letter from the Evil League of Evil... (Score:4, Funny)
Bad Horse! Bad Horse!
Bad Horse! Bad Horse!
We saw the prime-time showing
Five minutes after eight
Our Tivo missed the ending since you started late!
It make me kick a fencepost,
and filled my heart with hate!
We have pics of Gossip Girl and we'll be in touch.
you suck,
Bad Horse!
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Whedon's Free Ride (Score:2)
So, with Avengers success, JW now has some freedom to make whatever he wants.After seeing DH musical, I wonder if there's a chance he'll do Bored of the Ring: The Musical?
Hopefully (Score:2)
CW won't fuck up the aspect ratio, unlike the Youtube video linked in TFA.
WTF (Score:1)
is this all about...
eh - who cares.