Comments on: Oh Noes! Joss Whedon is onto my plans…

By: Graham

Graham — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:53:17 +0000

@Ish -

I doubt the opera part, at least with any sort of traditional opera.

I personally don’t enjoy shows I can’t understand, whether that is because of muffled voices and bad microphones, or due to it being a foreign language.

Sure, the music might be alright (I’m not a huge fan), but I’d be going for the show, not a concert.

Additionally, vibrado in the higher registers tends to grate on my nerves if not done pretty much perfectly (actual, physical pain if it’s loud enough and bad enough), so I’ve avoided opera shows thus far.

Some of the more modern, english operas might be alright, but even then many are closer to musicals anyways.

Still think you could get me to enjoy (traditional) opera?

EDIT: Also, what’s wrong with Disney movies? I loved those cartoons.

By: Ish

Ish — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:05:38 +0000

Rent, Spam-A-Lot, Wicked, Rocky Horror Show, Sweeny Todd, and many others should be enough to dispell the notion that every musical is The Sound of Music. My personally theory on why people hate musicals is because the only ones they've ever been exposed to are the bloody Von Trappe family, those dang Disney flicks, and whatever their sixth grade chorus director forced them to suffer through. Heck, I'm willing to bet a pretty GP or two that I could make just about anyone enjoy opera, if I got them tickets tot he right show.

By: Lanir

Lanir — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 06:46:23 +0000

Dr. Horrible rocked. I would have totally missed it except they bought up some banner adds in a few places I frequent. And I saw Felicia Day mention the project when I was hunting up episodes of The Guild awhile back so I clicked on the link on Saturday and saw it all at once.

Musicals are… odd. I never thought I would like one. Describe something as “a musical” and I usually cringe. Then in high school I saw Miss Saigon performed and that was confusingly awesome. But I didn’t really see another musical until the Buffy musical episode. Somehow I don’t see too many of them so I keep resetting to the cringing before I see another but every one I’ve seen so far has been pretty amazing. I’d guess they’re rarer because they just end up asking more of the author, cast and crew than a normal performance.

By: Ish

Ish — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 01:58:52 +0000

I’ve never seen FotC, however I am aparently the only person in North America who loved Eagle versus Shark which, as I understand it, is by the same guys.

I’m also a big musical fan, by way of being a absolutle lover of live theater in general. Heck, I’m watching My Fair Lady right now….

By: Reverend Mike

Reverend Mike — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:53:32 +0000

Flight of the Conchords is a folk-comedy duo that also happens to have a TV show…not sure it you can quite consider it a musical since they kind of jam their songs into the show, in sometimes irrelevant ways…they find excuses for them, but they’re still pretty out-of-place sometimes…(i.e. Rhymenoceros meets Hiphopopatomus)…

By: ChattyDM

ChattyDM — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:51:06 +0000

I was a bit worried that it would have been too old hat for you guys. I’m glad a few caught it just in time.

I will watch again tonight and will definitively transfer this to my ipod!

By: Virgil Vansant

Virgil Vansant — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:18:00 +0000

I’m so glad I caught this! Somehow I have been oblivious to it until I saw the post here.

I watched the whole thing about three times. I wanted to make sure I got my fill before it was pulled. Now I am eagerly waiting for the future DVD release. (Which will apparently have a commentary track done all in song.)

By: justaguy

justaguy — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 13:15:40 +0000

I dunno that I’d call FotC a “muscial” thing really… it’s a comedy that uses music. Or perhaps that is to fine a line. In general, I don’t like musicals. The musical Buffy episode… eh *Shrug*. This however. This I loved.

It amused me to no end that his middle plot was foiled because “Captain Hammer and the LAPD are subscribers”. Hehe.

By: Ablefish

Ablefish — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 05:28:52 +0000

Those were awesome. And the songs were fantastic. I enjoyed musicals well enough, but I was shocked when I liked Moulin Rouge so much and since then I’ll always give them a chance. (Check out Flight of the Conchords…hehe)

Then again, since Firefly I’d give anything Whedon(only one E!) does a chance.

By: ChattyDM

ChattyDM — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 23:21:16 +0000

I nominally hate musicals but Dr. Horrible was just too awesome.

That final was so unforeseen… and yet so right that I’d have taken at least 2 more Tim Ricish songs and loved it!