Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog Hits Primetime

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Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog Hits Primetime

Posted by Unknown on Monday July 30, 2012 @10:02PM from the that's-what-you-get-for-having-bad-taste dept.

First time accepted submitter Goat_Cheese_Pizza writes "Word on the Intertubes (I picked the Washington Post) is Joss Whedon's musical masterpiece, Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, will air on CW's primetime lineup on October 9th. I've always wanted to watch Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog with commercials! Thanks, CW!"

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Mwahahahahahahahahahahaha! Ahaaahaaa! by Anonymous Coward · 2012-07-30 22:12 · Score: 5, Funny

Mwahahahahahahahahahahaha! Ahaaahaaa!
Re:Mwahahahahahahahahahahaha! Ahaaahaaa! by aztec1430 · 2012-07-30 22:13 · Score: 4, Funny

standards...
A letter of condemnation... by History's+Coming+To · 2012-07-30 22:24 · Score: 5, Funny

Any dolt with half a brain,
Can see that human kind has gone insane,
To the point where something free
Which is loved by you and me
Is filled with adverts most inane.
Listen close to Joss's bank account,
Hear that tinkling sound,
Cash and cheques are falling all about,
Whedon's profit bound!

(Seriously, they all deserve a little pay-back for what was a free project to start with, fair enough!)

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1. Re:A letter of condemnation... by History's+Coming+To · 2012-07-31 01:11 · Score: 2
  
  Your joke is bound to bomb, Your trolling is oh so wrong, Don't you see? The meaning of irony.... mycleanpc.cooooooooooommm......
  
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2. Re:A letter of condemnation... by History's+Coming+To · 2012-07-31 01:27 · Score: 5, Insightful
  
  No, my point was this:
  
  The project was done during the downtime caused by the writers strike. All of the money came from Whedon and the goodwill of the various people who got involved, it was all done for fun and was released, entirely for free and without adverts. It's a superb example of something being made for free, given away, and then becoming profitable later because of its sheer popularity. It's precisely the same as a bedroom musician, entertaining blogger or a stick-figure webcomic becoming popular and suddenly pulling in some money for the artist/s.
  
  Yes, I'd imagine that Whedon is reasonably wealthy already, but that doesn't change my enjoyment at seeing a free product earning some money a few years down the line. It's nice to see the "watch the adverts and maybe we'll include something you like" model being flipped on its head.
  
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3. Re:A letter of condemnation... by VGPowerlord · 2012-07-31 01:35 · Score: 4, Insightful
  
  I hate to say it... the lyric timing is wrong in one section.
  "is filled with adverts most inane" vs. "if I throw poison in the water main"
  "is filled with" matches to "if I throw" and "most inane" matches to "the water main"
  Which means that "adverts" (2 syllables) has to match "poison in the" (4 syllables).
  TL;DR "adverts" needs to be "advertisements" to match the cadence of the original lyrics.
  
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4. Re:A letter of condemnation... by anyGould · 2012-07-31 07:27 · Score: 3, Insightful
  
  It's worth noting that by all rumors, Whedon (and the cast) came out quite nicely already from Dr. Horrible. Remember that it was only available online for free for a short time. Then it was sold on iTunes, then it was sold on DVD (with all sorts of quite-awesome extras). Joss made his investment back on that job.
  So getting it on CW is just extra icing on the cake - especially if it's part of a larger setup for DH2 or whatever Joss' next project will be.
5. Re:A letter of condemnation... by History's+Coming+To · 2012-07-31 07:58 · Score: 3, Insightful
  
  If she wants to give you $10k then that's fine. And if you've made bookcase that someone loves enough to give you $10k, then yes, you deserve it. Well done, I hope it makes you a little happier.
  
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Re:Uhh, Yay? by The+Rizz · 2012-07-30 22:59 · Score: 2

It just seems odd to air a 4 year old one-off production like this
... except that it's been hinted at for a long time that a sequel is in the works. Perhaps it's going prime time because the CW (or their parent company) is planning to give the Whedons the funding for a movie / TV series.
Re:Uhh, Yay? by Rei · 2012-07-30 23:06 · Score: 5, Insightful

What makes you think that Dr. Horrible would be a bad fit with the under-18 female crowd? Since when are romantic musicals starring guys like Nathan Fillion and Neil Patrick Harris not a good fit for under-18 female viewers? Anyway, CW's prime demographic is ostensibly 18-34-old women.

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Re:Enlighten a poor non-USian... by RivenAleem · 2012-07-30 23:32 · Score: 2

One Google later ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_CW_Television_Network

The "CW" name is derived from the first letter of the names of these corporations (CBS and Warner Bros.).
Re:Yay, but ... by OzPeter · 2012-07-30 23:50 · Score: 3, Funny

the CW? Really?
Well given that the current line up on any channel seems to be based on randomly drawing names out of a hat (wrestling on syfi, "paranormal" BS on history etc) I'd say that CW is an appropriate location for a Joss Whedon production.

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Re:Uhh, Yay? by will_die · 2012-07-30 23:51 · Score: 2

article I saw on it mentioned that this gave CW the rights to the first try to get the sequel.
Well if you did it correctly by Greyfox · 2012-07-31 00:12 · Score: 2

And had all the commercials themed with the show, it would probably be even more awesome. Hell I might even just sit down and watch the whole thing through.

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Re:Uhh, Yay? by JackieBrown · 2012-07-31 00:15 · Score: 4, Funny

And they'll bring back Felicia Day's character and then kill her over and over...
That was Eureka
Re:Joss Whedon by Anonymous Coward · 2012-07-31 00:41 · Score: 5, Funny

Joss Whedon - He was the actor that played that kid from the new Star Wars, right?
Yes.
Coincidentally, his twin sister, Will, played Buffy in that Twilight movie.
I'm not impressed by rjejr · 2012-07-31 00:53 · Score: 5, Funny

So the CW is willing to show a 1 night presentation of a movie starring the stars of "How I Met Your Mother" and "Castle" produced and directed by the guy who directed the mega-blockbuster "Avengers" movie on some random Tuesday nigth in Oct? Which is during the baseball playoffs. Wow, really going out on a limb there.
Re:in case youre curious by History's+Coming+To · 2012-07-31 01:16 · Score: 3, Interesting

It's a romantic evil comedy geek musical, hey, it's not for everyone. Personally, I love it, mostly because of the "hey, there's a writers strike, want to do something just for fun?" element.

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Re:Edited down? by egamma · 2012-07-31 01:26 · Score: 5, Funny

The episodes will have any sections of exposition cut from them. ... and be shown in the wrong order.
No, that's on Fox.

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Re:Uhh, Yay? by Abreu · 2012-07-31 02:11 · Score: 2

There is a statute of limitations for spoiler alerts, you know?
http://www.dorktower.com/2012/05/23/puny-spoiler-dork-tower-23-05-12/

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Re:Uhh, Yay? by Culture20 · 2012-07-31 02:51 · Score: 2

Unless you watched the last two seconds. Sometimes there's a third, even deeper, level and that one is the same as the top surface. It's Billy's sing along blog. Dr. Horrible was just a means to an unrealized end.
Re:Yay, but ... by Transkaren · 2012-07-31 02:54 · Score: 4, Informative

The CW actually has a lot of decent scifi/fantasy shows. True, they're more aimed at a teen audience, but Supernatural's probably one of the best shows on television period, Smallville was a pretty decent take on Superman (Michael Rosenbaum is an incredible Lex Luthor in that show!), Nikita's a pretty decent spy/action show, and they usually add at least one scifi/fantasy show a year (I think they're showing "Arrow" this year - a show about the Green Arrow.)

That said, Comedy Central would be slightly more appropriate for the Sing-Along Blog.

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A letter from the Evil League of Evil... by Picass0 · 2012-07-31 03:14 · Score: 3, Funny

Bad Horse! Bad Horse!
Bad Horse! Bad Horse!
We saw the prime-time showing
Five minutes after eight
Our Tivo missed the ending since you started late!
It make me kick a fencepost,
and filled my heart with hate!
We have pics of Gossip Girl and we'll be in touch.
you suck,
Bad Horse!
Re:Uhh, Yay? by guises · 2012-07-31 04:01 · Score: 2

Thanks. According to Wikipedia, CW stands for CBS Warner Brothers and it's the successor to "The WB" and the United Paramount Network, both of which I was familiar with, but not the new thing. Maybe I'm just getting old.
Re:Uhh, Yay? by mianne · 2012-07-31 04:56 · Score: 2

I thought that was South Park.

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