Between the opening song about his crush on Penny, to the concluding introduction of his arch-nemesis Captain Hammer, the songs keep things zipping along. The numbers to this point have been simply but smartly staged. The first Act really shines when it turns to song, and sometimes its dialogue gets a bit bogged down (You could say soggy) by comparison. The hook, a video blog of sorts, seems kind of strange to me (Wouldn’t he get caught? Or are we just going to ignore that logic?), but Neil Patrick Harris pulls it off with just the right level of sincerity.Īnd he can sing, too, something that I knew at least to a certain degree. Neil Patrick Harris is fantastic as the eponymous Doctor, an evil genius whose motivations are like Batman Begins: humanity sucks, so he should rule them instead and fix the problem through his evil villainy. Horrible, and as a result the musical numbers feel less poignant and more introductory. This is a more traditional setup, in that sense: the first Act is designed to introduce the character of Dr.
It made it feel like, well, actually what it was: people who couldn’t stop singing and dancing, forced to live their lives through song. The songs were not just manifestations of that episode’s emotions, but rather of multiple seasons of plot and character development which led into the songs themselves. Horrible can’t possibly live up to the standard set by the musical Buffy episode is because there was characters and story development leading up to those events. And while I don’t quite think Act One of this experiment lives up to that standard (And I’ll explain why below), it does everything you expect it to do: it carefully integrates musical numbers into a charming story featuring actors who, considering the fun nature of this story, are clearly enjoying themselves immensely.Īnd for a “Free” (Well, not quite) internet event of this nature? I’d say that this is damn entertaining stuff. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog is not Whedon’s first entry into the television musical of sorts, considering that Buffy the Vampire Slayer’s “Once More…with Feeling” is considered one of the show’s best episodes.
And when you find out that it will be streaming live online for free, a true test of the online medium for distribution of this nature, a television blogger like myself gets even more enthused about it all. When you learn that Neil Patrick Harris and Nathan Fillion are set to star, you get hyped. When Joss Whedon announces during the WGA Writers’ Strike that he was writing a musical, you get excited.
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