Doctor Horrible's Sing-along Blog
Monday, March 25, 2013
Sunday, March 24, 2013
Introduction
Here's
a nice introduction... thank you, Ted Z. (IMDB)
Dr. Horrible, an aspiring supervillain with his own video blog, is attempting to join the prestigious Evil League of Evil (led by the legendary "thoroughbred of sin", Bad Horse), but his plans are usually foiled by the egotistical superhero Captain Hammer. Horrible's life is thrown for a loop when he falls in love with Penny, a beautiful and optimistic advocate for the homeless he meets at the laundromat, a situation which complicates itself even further when Penny begins dating the boorish, oafish Hammer after he apparently saves her life. Faced with the task of impressing the League, can Horrible overcome his own incompetence to ruin the day, kill the hero, and still get the girl?
And here's the wikipedia article:
Dr.
Horrible's Sing-Along Blog is
a 2008 musical
tragicomedy
miniseries in
three acts,
produced exclusively for Internet
distribution.
Filmed and set in Los
Angeles,
the show tells the story of Dr. Horrible (played by Neil
Patrick Harris),
an aspiring supervillain;
Captain Hammer (Nathan
Fillion),
his nemesis; and Penny (Felicia
Day),
their shared love interest.
The
movie was written by writer/director Joss
Whedon,
his brothers Zack
Whedon (a
television writer) and Jed
Whedon (a
composer), and writer/actress Maurissa
Tancharoen.
The team wrote the musical during the 2007–2008
Writers Guild of America strike.
The idea was to create something small and inexpensive, yet
professionally done, in a way that would circumvent the issues that
were being protested during the strike. On October 31, 2008, Time
magazine
named it #15 inTime's
Top 50 Inventions of 2008.
It
also won the People's
Choice Award for
"Favorite Online Sensation", and the 2009 Hugo
Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form.
In
the inaugural 2009 Streamy
Awards for
web television, Dr.
Horrible won
seven awards: Audience Choice Award for Best Web Series, Best
Directing for a Comedy Web Series, Best Writing for a Comedy Web
Series, Best Male Actor in a Comedy Web Series (Harris), Best
Editing, Best Cinematography, and Best Original Music.
It
also won a 2009 Creative
Arts Emmy Award for
Outstanding Special Class – Short-format Live-Action Entertainment
Programs.
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