# Just closed a gap in my geek cred: I watched Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 19, 2011, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-closed-a-gap-in-my-geek-cred-i-watched-dr-horribles-sing-along-blog/593275 "2011-08-19T03:54:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Chef\_Troy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85f322/32.png) [@Chef\_Troy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chef_Troy)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-closed-a-gap-in-my-geek-cred-i-watched-dr-horribles-sing-along-blog/593275/1 "2011-08-19T03:54:21Z")
I’ve been meaning to watch it forever but kept forgetting. Then I was picking over the bones of my local Borders Books with the rest of the vultures and found it on Blu-Ray, so I picked it up. WOW. I could NOT believe how awesome it was. Funny, great tunes, spot-on casting, pathos, and a third-act development I was NOT expecting: I was shocked when Penny died. I heard someone say in a making-of featurette that in that moment, you see a switch thrown inside Dr. Horrible… but it wasn’t turned ON, it was turned OFF. Well said. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-closed-a-gap-in-my-geek-cred-i-watched-dr-horribles-sing-along-blog/593275/2 "2011-08-19T03:57:32Z")
Listen to the audio commentary. It’s its own musical and is funny, too. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-closed-a-gap-in-my-geek-cred-i-watched-dr-horribles-sing-along-blog/593275/3 "2011-08-19T04:00:07Z")
It’s amazing what creative people can do when they aren’t saddled with suits and networks and studios to satisfy. According to Nathan Fillion his dick actually looks like a hammer. [A great big hammer](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ru2HxIZtd3o). ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-closed-a-gap-in-my-geek-cred-i-watched-dr-horribles-sing-along-blog/593275/4 "2011-08-19T08:20:32Z")
I caught it on netflix last summer, and thought it was fantastic. I clicked on it by accident and was in enough pain that I didn’t want to gimp over to my desktop to go back for what I did want to watch, and mrAru had already left the room - and am very glad I didnt. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 9:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-closed-a-gap-in-my-geek-cred-i-watched-dr-horribles-sing-along-blog/593275/5 "2011-08-19T09:28:30Z")
> [@Chef\_Troy](#): > > WOW. I could NOT believe how awesome it was. Funny, great tunes, spot-on casting, pathos, and a third-act development I was NOT expecting: > > I was shocked when Penny died. > > I heard someone say in a making-of featurette that in that moment, you see a switch thrown inside Dr. Horrible… but it wasn’t turned ON, it was turned OFF. Well said. I was shocked by the thing in your spoiler, too. And I can’t figure out _why_. It’s a Joss Whedon film! I should have been expecting that from the first frame! But the fucker blindsides me every. Single. Time. Did you check out Commentary! The Musical? Also well worth your time. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 10:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-closed-a-gap-in-my-geek-cred-i-watched-dr-horribles-sing-along-blog/593275/6 "2011-08-19T10:04:41Z")
Some of the easter eggs on the DVD are worth searching out too (I love the “gag reel”, particularly NPH’s finger tricks). Don’t bother following Whedon’s long trail of breadcrumbs to find them, though - just look up the list on the internet like sensible people do. Oh, and the ELE application videos contain some moments of sheer genius, including the one from Lord Viscount Genghis Napoleon Stabbington III, who waited to kill his own father until “the moment when he would least expect it — his death bed.” ---
**Author:** ![Tanbarkie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a698b9/32.png) [@Tanbarkie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tanbarkie)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-closed-a-gap-in-my-geek-cred-i-watched-dr-horribles-sing-along-blog/593275/7 "2011-08-19T14:26:44Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Oh, and the ELE application videos contain some moments of sheer genius, including the one from Lord Viscount Genghis Napoleon Stabbington III, who waited to kill his own father until “the moment when he would least expect it — his death bed.” Tur Mohel was my favorite. And I’m not even Jewish! ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-closed-a-gap-in-my-geek-cred-i-watched-dr-horribles-sing-along-blog/593275/8 "2011-08-19T14:27:28Z")
I didn’t care for it at all, though I liked Neil Patrick Harris and Nathan Fillion’s performances. I also don’t get the appeal of Felicia Day. It’s the only Joss Whedon production I don’t like. ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-closed-a-gap-in-my-geek-cred-i-watched-dr-horribles-sing-along-blog/593275/9 "2011-08-19T14:40:16Z")
Chiming in to drive-by brag that I got to meet **Felicia Day** last weekend at the Chicago Comic Con and she was super sweet and adorable. ---
**Author:** ![Hello\_Again](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/85e7bf/32.png) [@Hello\_Again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hello_Again)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-closed-a-gap-in-my-geek-cred-i-watched-dr-horribles-sing-along-blog/593275/10 "2011-08-19T14:54:57Z")
The musical reading of Bad Horse’s letters pretty much makes the whole thing for me. I mean, as a whole it was a little obvious, but that was part of the fun. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Excellent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f19dbf/32.png) [@Mr.Excellent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Excellent)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-closed-a-gap-in-my-geek-cred-i-watched-dr-horribles-sing-along-blog/593275/11 "2011-08-19T14:58:59Z")
> [@Hades](#): > > I also don’t get the appeal of Felicia Day. Strangely appropriate match between name and post here. Do you also dislike happiness, sunshine and puppies? Because I’m reasonably confident that these are Ms. Day’s principal constituent parts. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-closed-a-gap-in-my-geek-cred-i-watched-dr-horribles-sing-along-blog/593275/12 "2011-08-19T15:26:24Z")
Loved it, even bought the soundtrack and have that and the film on my iPhone. And I’m not even a huge Whedon fangirl; I liked this and Firefly. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-closed-a-gap-in-my-geek-cred-i-watched-dr-horribles-sing-along-blog/593275/13 "2011-08-19T15:53:24Z")
Me too! _Dr. Horrible_ and a few episodes of _Babylon 5_ and _Firefly_ live on my phone. ---
**Author:** ![Stauderhorse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@Stauderhorse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stauderhorse)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-closed-a-gap-in-my-geek-cred-i-watched-dr-horribles-sing-along-blog/593275/14 "2011-08-19T16:09:20Z")
It was entertaining and the music was pretty good, but it was too short for me to really become emotionally invested in the characters. Felicia Day is smoking hot, though. ---
**Author:** ![Mtgman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@Mtgman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mtgman)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-closed-a-gap-in-my-geek-cred-i-watched-dr-horribles-sing-along-blog/593275/15 "2011-08-19T18:11:33Z")
I remember the shell shock from when I discovered that Douglas Adams The HitchHiker’s Guide to the Galaxy was pretty much mainstream, not the obscure geeky thing I thought it was. I felt the same way, although not as strongly because it wasn’t my first time, when Dr Horrible won the Emmy for Most Incomprehensible Category. As a special bonus for you Felicia Day fans, check out her own webseries [The Guild](http://www.watchtheguild.com/). This is some seriously geeky stuff here, but it’s funnier to players of Massively Multiplayer Online Games, and those who tolerate them. Enjoy, Steven ---
**Author:** ![Chef\_Troy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85f322/32.png) [@Chef\_Troy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chef_Troy)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2011, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-closed-a-gap-in-my-geek-cred-i-watched-dr-horribles-sing-along-blog/593275/16 "2011-08-20T01:56:06Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > Did you check out Commentary! The Musical? Also well worth your time. Yes, I did, and I loved it – especially “Ten Dollar Solo” and Felecia Day’s relentless pimping of “The Guild” (“…we also have t-shirts…”) ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2011, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-closed-a-gap-in-my-geek-cred-i-watched-dr-horribles-sing-along-blog/593275/17 "2011-08-20T03:10:23Z")
> [@Chef\_Troy](#): > > Yes, I did, and I loved it – especially “Ten Dollar Solo” and Felecia Day’s relentless pimping of “The Guild” (“…we also have t-shirts…”) I occasionally tell people that I don’t discuss my process to this day. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2011, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-closed-a-gap-in-my-geek-cred-i-watched-dr-horribles-sing-along-blog/593275/18 "2011-08-20T04:03:33Z")
> [@Chef\_Troy](#): > > Yes, I did, and I loved it – especially “Ten Dollar Solo” and Felecia Day’s relentless pimping of “The Guild” (“…we also have t-shirts…”) Or Nate Fillion’s “Better Than Neil”: Look at his smallness Compared to my tallness My porcelain dollness My port in a squallness My Kids in the Hall-ness My Pink Floyd’s The Wall-ness My three parts of Gaulness My just all-in-allness ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2011, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-closed-a-gap-in-my-geek-cred-i-watched-dr-horribles-sing-along-blog/593275/19 "2011-08-20T04:59:25Z")
“Joss, where do your ideas come from?” “They come from pain.” “Let’s not talk to Joss. He’s depressing and creepy.” ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2011, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-closed-a-gap-in-my-geek-cred-i-watched-dr-horribles-sing-along-blog/593275/20 "2011-08-20T05:32:31Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > It’s amazing what creative people can do when they aren’t saddled with suits _Pssst…_ knocking on suits is officially no longer cool. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-closed-a-gap-in-my-geek-cred-i-watched-dr-horribles-sing-along-blog/593275.md?page=2)