The Good

This week marks a new frontier in entertainment. From the mind that brought you Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly, and coming soon to a canceled list near you The Doll house; Joss Whedon has created Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog. Doogie Howser's Neil Patrick Harris ( or most affectionately NPH) plays Dr. Horrible a sort of super villan tired of being beat up by Nathan Fillion's super character Captain Hammer. He also longs to be with or at least talk to laundromat girl Penny played by Felica Day of BTVS season 6 and the award winning The Guild. (more about that later)

Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog shows you what a motivated artist, his famous actor friends, and a computer can do. It also by-passes those jerk bags at the networks who wouldn't know a good show if it was sitting on their faces. ( AHEM! Fox I'm looking at you) Dr. Horrible premiers this week July 15th on doctorhorrible.com The remaining two acts will go up the 17th and then end on the 19th. Now here's where it gets kind of cool. It's totally free. It'll be up till the 20th and the just as quickly as it showed up, it vanishes. ( cue OOOOOOOOO sound) You may ask yourself a couple of questions: Why free? And Free why?. Well to answer that I'll let Joss himself tell how the Doc came to be.

*Segment provided by doctorhorrible.net

Once upon a time, all the writers in the forest got very mad with the Forest Kings and declared a work-stoppage. The forest creatures were all sad; the mushrooms did not dance, the elderberries gave no juice for the festival wines, and the Teamsters were kinda pissed. (They were very polite about it, though.) During this work-stoppage, many writers tried to form partnerships for outside funding to create new work that circumvented the Forest King system.

Frustrated with the lack of movement on that front, I finally decided to do something very ambitious, very exciting, very mid-life-crisisy. Aided only by everyone I had worked with, was related to or had ever met, I single-handedly created this unique little epic. A supervillain musical, of which, as we all know, there are far too few.

The idea was to make it on the fly, on the cheap – but to make it. To turn out a really thrilling, professionalish piece of entertainment specifically for the internet. To show how much could be done with very little. To show the world there is another way. To give the public (and in particular you guys) something for all your support and patience. And to make a lot of silly jokes. Actually, that sentence probably should have come first.

So make sure you check it out. I know I will