I disagree wholeheartedly. The tragedy of Penny's death coupled with her dying words ("Captain Hammer will save us") makes for the sort of ironic tragedy that makes a villain both more human and more believable. If Penny had joined up with him, he wouldn't have a particular reason to be villainous; now, he's tortured and heartbroken, ripe for a life of evildoings.
Penny joining up with him would've been a cheap, sappy ending.
Dr. Horrible isn't so much a villainous villain though. He's a guy who wants to change the world for the better, through means others see as evil. Which is the best sort of "villain."
Definitely agreed. Personally, I like having that extra bit of tragic irony that makes for a tortured villain character; he resigns himself to his bad deeds, to set the world right, for Penny's sake. Tragic and lamentable; that's the way I like it.
Of course, the story has been done before; so really, no matter what happened, it would've always felt at least a little predictable and hokey. There are only so many ways to tell the "supervillain vs. superhero" story.
Definitely agreed. Personally, I like having that extra bit of tragic irony that makes for a tortured villain character; he resigns himself to his bad deeds, to set the world right, for Penny's sake. Tragic and lamentable; that's the way I like it.
Of course, the story has been done before; so really, no matter what happened, it would've always felt at least a little predictable and hokey. There are only so many ways to tell the "supervillain vs. superhero" story.
Also, didn't he need to kill someone to be accepted into the evil horse club? I figured that someone would die for him to succeed, and it would be either Penny or Hammer.
What's wrong? It seems to work fine for me. If you can't get it, you may be able to get it on iTunes, or worst case scenario you find a torrent. Also, I heard that at the Comic-con panel Joss Whedon announced that he's working on making more of this.
After watching the whole series, I honestly wish he hadn't done this and instead done more Firefly episodes. That show is so awesome.
I think we would have all liked that, even him, but he doesn't have the backing to do that sort of thing. Although his is working on that a new show called Dollhouse which seems interesting.
Fair enough. The execs who scheduled it were actively trying to tank it.
It just bothers me when people who've missed the past four or five years worth of opportunities to watch this show finally get around to it, and they suddenly become so outraged that it got canceled.
It just bothers me when people who've missed the past four or five years worth of opportunities to watch this show finally get around to it, and they suddenly become so outraged that it got canceled.
If more people had watched the series when it was on television, that might have been possible.
Nothing is good enough to warrant my watching it on broadcast television. Even if Firefly picked right back up tomorrow, I wouldn't watch it on TV: I'd wait for the DVDs and buy a box set.
Firefly failed because it wasn't worth money within a business model that relies almost entirely on selling unreliable viewer eyeballs to advertisers. TV shows are not products: they are tools that exist solely to create viewer metrics which can justify ad sales. Firefly utterly failed in that regard, even though as a show it was a masterpiece.
Nothing is good enough to warrant my watching it on broadcast television. Even if Firefly picked right back up tomorrow, I wouldn't watch it on TV: I'd wait for the DVDs and buy a box set.
Would you watch it on Hulu? I've found myself catching more and more decent shows that way.
Sonic,Did you watch the Firefly movie Serenity also?
Yes, and it will remain on my hard drive for all of eternity so that I may share it with others should the occasion arise. Seriously, that movie kicked some gorram ass!
I downloaded the soundtrack and was surprised to find out that the song from the beginning of ACT II is called "My Eyes". I always thought of it as "On The Rise".
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Of course, the story has been done before; so really, no matter what happened, it would've always felt at least a little predictable and hokey. There are only so many ways to tell the "supervillain vs. superhero" story.
Did you watch the Firefly movie Serenity also?
It just bothers me when people who've missed the past four or five years worth of opportunities to watch this show finally get around to it, and they suddenly become so outraged that it got canceled.
Firefly failed because it wasn't worth money within a business model that relies almost entirely on selling unreliable viewer eyeballs to advertisers. TV shows are not products: they are tools that exist solely to create viewer metrics which can justify ad sales. Firefly utterly failed in that regard, even though as a show it was a masterpiece.
It was pretty awesome.