Tom: agreed. I applaud the venture, but I imagine some hard-up creatives are whistling through their teeth and saying “Wow, you’ve certainly showed us all what someone with a lot of money, fame and connections can do!” In a lot of ways Felicia’s thing, The Guild, is a more inspiring template: it’s more professional than we’ve come to expect from the web, and now funded solely through fan donations. Once the DVD goes on sale, she might actually be able to pay the cast.

Tom: agreed. They’re selling it over iTunes right now, then the DVD comes later. I suspect iTunes is the way to go, but I also think that route’s probably more efficient if you’re starting a series that can build a following and reuse assets and equipment. Which this is not intended to be.

Anyway:

“And sometimes there’s a third, even deeper layer, and that one’s the same as the surface one.”

“Apparently the LAPD and Captain Hammer are among our viewers.”

“There will be blood! It might be yours!
So go kill someone! Signed Bad Horse!”

“The thoroughbred of sin?”
“I meant Gandhi.”

Act II definitely where it’s at.

Right, spoilers for Dr. Horrible’s Sing Along blog coming up:

* Act II was the best.
* My, but the Whedons love to kill their characters, eh? This wasn’t Dr. Horrible’s redemption arc, it was his origin story. Syke!
* The construction of the thing isn’t sturdy enough to support an ongoing series, methinks, especially if it would be a musical throughout. But then I don’t think that was ever the intention.
* More of this sort of thing! Although how’d you monetise something like this? Just DVD sales?

Spoiling things: really surprised by the ending, kind of typical Whedon, but so untypical of anyone else. I liked it. Also: “the hammer is my penis”, kudos. Not sure how easy that would be to follow (Jed’s plan seems to be to open up the world to new possibilities) because not everyone is Joss Whedon (high geek cred + links with plenty of talent), but I guess it did show that with good writers and actors you don’t need a big budget to make your own take on Iron Man / Heroes.

Tom – yes, but be aware that the first 50 characters of your post will come up in the “Latest Comment” box for a while, so try to avoid starting with “omg cpt hamer = dr horobel lol”. Tell us about your day, first.

DBB: […] you had intended for it to be available internationally from the start, is that right?

JW: We don’t like people who aren’t American [Joking] we were trying to think of everything and that was the one question we didn’t ask when we were talking to Hulu about the actual hosting of the video, we didn’t even think to ask it but as soon as we launched and the first blogs were “why can’t I see it” and we went into panic mode and the people of Hulu were up that night re-writing the code and getting it in order and it opened up some time in the night but no it definitely wasn’t planned and we were extremely sad that the launch was tainted by sadness and disappointment…

I miss Buffy and to a ever-so-slighly-lesser extent, Firefly. Dr. Horrible reminds me soo much of both of those shows. Of course it helps that it shares cast members from both and of course Joss Whedon.

Sad face.

Anecdote fail. :(

Originality is not necessary for excellence, and thank goodness.

Seriously, any month now I was about to write the first line.

Of course, my story didn’t revolve around your sister getting framed, because that’s lame. Yes, Rhianna Pratchett, I said it!

Also my guy could fly.

I guess I missed a trick there.