Joss Whedon’s Dr. Horrible

18Jul08

First, an admission: I love Firefly.

It was canceled after one season, but I can’t get enough. I keep looking for signs that there’ll be a sequel. I’m really not a fan of Joss Whedon’s other works (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel), but Toy Story was pretty amazing.

Anyways, Whedon has recently released his latest project, Dr. Horrible, online for free viewing until July 20. A USA Today story described it as such:

The musical stars How I Met Your Mother actor Neil Patrick Harris as tongue-tied super-villain Horrible, who hopes his freeze-ray gun will gain him standing with the Evil League of Evil and win him the girl of his dreams. Nathan Fillion (Desperate Housewives) co-stars as self-absorbed hero Captain Hammer. Felicia Day’s Laundromat girl captures both their hearts.

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Joss Whedon set out on the low-budget project during the writers’ strike as a lark and a labor of love — and to show the industry an out-of-the-box project could find an audience. But the overwhelming response has caught him by surprise.

“We had this home-baked idea that we love and we’re proud of,” Whedon says. “We made this on the understanding that we’d never make a dime. But it’s blown up beyond our expectations.”

So, cool. Some people have talked about possibly hosting new Firefly episodes online, but the medium was never tested or proven. Now, Dr. Horrible, which is quaint but not exactly a magnum opus, ranks as iTunes’ top video download and might just pave the way for other innovations in presenting media to an audience.

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