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[Nilocy]

This is, a very good show. I lvoe the cast, i love Whedon. I love hte story! Its everyone/thing i ever wanted. And i love the ending, raises a few questions.

[Areyar]

About equine ethics?

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I knew a dwarf like Moist once...

This is one spoiled thread.

[Nilocy]

Oh and Cthulhu, do you really know Nathan Fillian? Or is this just a rumour you've made to make your life seem all that amazing bit better?

[a1s]

the movie was great, but the ending was kind of weird... it feels like there's supposed to be more there...

[Cthulhu]

Uhh.  Um, uh, y-yeah, I know Nathan Fillian.  We go way back.

[Ioric Kittencuddler]

the movie was great, but the ending was kind of weird... it feels like there's supposed to be more there...

Well they are thinking about a sequel.  Though I'm not really sure what you mean by weird.  It was supposed to be kind of weird.  The whole movie was.

[Dasleah]

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Huh?  Cheap emotional response?  Did you see the rest of the movie?  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaXBu5unFCQ 

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I'm not denying it was an emotional ending - you have to feel for poor ol' Dr Horrible - but I'm just saying that it's so Joss Whedon, and I saw it coming a mile away. He has certain things he always falls back on, again and again as a writer. Supernatural Girls That Kick Ass (which he didn't use, but a sequel would definitely have it - I'm thinking Penny coming back from the dead as a superhero) and Killing Characters Because I Can't Think Of A Better Way To End This are just two of his fallbacks.

Also, Bad Horse? Best damn villain ever.

[Ioric Kittencuddler]

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Huh?  Cheap emotional response?  Did you see the rest of the movie?  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaXBu5unFCQ 

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I'm not denying it was an emotional ending - you have to feel for poor ol' Dr Horrible - but I'm just saying that it's so Joss Whedon, and I saw it coming a mile away. He has certain things he always falls back on, again and again as a writer. Supernatural Girls That Kick Ass (which he didn't use, but a sequel would definitely have it - I'm thinking Penny coming back from the dead as a superhero) and Killing Characters Because I Can't Think Of A Better Way To End This are just two of his fallbacks.

Also, Bad Horse? Best damn villain ever.

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If Penny hadn't died then Dr. Horrible would have been killed by Bad Horse, apparently.  Also, he wouldn't have gotten into the evil league of evil.  If that thing about their being blood that might be his was just to scare him he probably would have given up on being evil and ended up with Penny since she realized what a jerk Captain Hammer was.

Bad Horse... yes.  Those dark eyes... like portals to oblivion.

[Zako]

Dr. Horrible?

I honestly thought, when I first saw the title, that it was about a doctor treating you wrongly or in a bad way or soemthing...

"Rectal thermometer? What rectal thermometer? Oh, you mean this one?"
*jab*
"...Help me..."

[Ioric Kittencuddler]

This time he's not a MD.  He's got a PhD in horribleness.

[Sappho]

For those of you upset about the way the movie ended and trying to make sense of it:

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The plot actually follows the model of a classical Greek tragedy almost perfectly, which is something that hasn't been done in a long time.  I'm planning on writing an essay analyzing this using Aristotle's Poetics as a guideline.  If I finish it before I move to my internet-deprived village next week, I'll post it here for you guys to tear apart. 

Y'know, cause that's what all the cool kids do with their spare time.

[a1s]

here's an interesting theroy I stumbled upon:

(My Interpretation of Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog)

When Billy said "a thing" at the end I noticed it was off tune... (Notice how Dr. Horrible is in tune compared to Billy at the end.)

What I got from the ending is that Billy is a socially awkward loner who isn't very popular and is in need of an "edge." Dr. Horrible is a character that Billy concocts in his head to seem cool/powerful/confident/...traits that Billy lacks.

Billy wants to be with Penny but in his mind he feels that Penny would never go for him.

Captain Hammer is a metaphor for the typical egotistical conceited jock that girls stereotypically go for. In this case the girl of Billy's dreams falls for a Johnny Snow much akin to Captain Hammer.

Penny sees Billy as a "buddy" much to Billy's dismay.

I took Penny's death as a metaphor for Billy letting go of Penny to move on...(In the end Billy realizes that he could never be with Penny).

Billy lies to himself...in thinking that Penny's departure meant nothing.

Billy shows his true self as a loner...hence the pie reference. On the suface there's the crust Billy's loner side. In the center there's Dr. Horrible--- the "edge" that no one sees which makes Billy cool in his own eyes, and the third layer is the crust again.

Dr. Horrible is simply what's inside of Billy...an angry side that wants to burst free and be respected.

[Sappho]

That's an interesting theory, but I don't think it quite works.  First off, the last note is not off-key, it's just minor, which I think is appropriate given the tone of the song.  Second, though Billy is dressed in street clothes at the end, if you look in the background there is still all the Dr. Horrible lab equipment behind him, which wouldn't be there if it were all some kind of imagined world.

I think this idea sounds like it comes from a student (or professor) of literary theory, who is in the habit of making things wayyyy more complex than they are intended to be.  (I had to take a lot of theory in college and never liked it.)  It's certainly possible, but I don't think it's really very likely what Whedon intended the meaning to be.

[Ioric Kittencuddler]

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here's an interesting theroy I stumbled upon:

(My Interpretation of Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog)

When Billy said "a thing" at the end I noticed it was off tune... (Notice how Dr. Horrible is in tune compared to Billy at the end.)

What I got from the ending is that Billy is a socially awkward loner who isn't very popular and is in need of an "edge." Dr. Horrible is a character that Billy concocts in his head to seem cool/powerful/confident/...traits that Billy lacks.

Billy wants to be with Penny but in his mind he feels that Penny would never go for him.

Captain Hammer is a metaphor for the typical egotistical conceited jock that girls stereotypically go for. In this case the girl of Billy's dreams falls for a Johnny Snow much akin to Captain Hammer.

Penny sees Billy as a "buddy" much to Billy's dismay.

I took Penny's death as a metaphor for Billy letting go of Penny to move on...(In the end Billy realizes that he could never be with Penny).

Billy lies to himself...in thinking that Penny's departure meant nothing.

Billy shows his true self as a loner...hence the pie reference. On the suface there's the crust Billy's loner side. In the center there's Dr. Horrible--- the "edge" that no one sees which makes Billy cool in his own eyes, and the third layer is the crust again.

Dr. Horrible is simply what's inside of Billy...an angry side that wants to burst free and be respected.

Wow, talk about an overactive imagination...  I mean the guy who wrote this, not Billy.  There are a few things that might make someone think this, but there are considerably more that indicate that it's simply meant to be real.  Two off the top of my head are that if this was all a metaphor then there was no point at which it showed the reality of things.  Secondly, if he imagined Dr. Horrible as an alter ego, then he would have been considerably more badass, and that whole thing about getting into the evil league of evil would have been totally meaningless.

[LASD]

About the ending:

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To me it seemed like the league was meaningless to Billy because Penny died. I thought that he only wanted to be a part of it because then he would be cool and powerful enough to get Penny to like him. Now it seemed like he went there only because he didn't have anything else worth doing anymore.

In other news, I loved this show. It is so different from other series and most things on TV. Especially the characters that are non-stereotypic by being stereotypic is something I really much enjoyed. Also the show had the best joke I have ever heard in the "a-joke-so-bad-it's-great"-category. You all should know what it is, but if you're not sure, click below.

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"The hammer is my penis."

P.S. Anyone else felt like watching Sweeney Todd again after seeing this?