Doctor Horrible's Sing-Along Blog
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cdybedahlIn case someone who reads this doesn't already know: during the writer's strike in the US this winter, Joss Whedon got bored. To alleviate that, he, his brothers and one brother's girlfriend started working on what has this week hit the web as Doctor Horrible's Sing-Along Blog. They claim that it got a bit bigger than first intended, so now it stars Neil Patrick Harris (from How I Met Your Mother), Nathan Fillion (Mal Reynolds from Firefly) and Felicia Day (potential Slayer Vi on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, creator of and playing Codex on The Guild (if you play WoW, watch it!)).
Two parts of three are avilable at the moment. The third part will be released on Saturday. On Sunday, and this is the reason I'm posting before having seen it all, the free version will be taken down. It will be replaced with a for-pay ("a nominal fee", according to Joss) download (and is already available like that from iTunes Store if you're in the United States, I'm told). Eventually there will be a DVD for sale as well. Joss has hinted that if it turns out well economically, it might possibly turn into a periodic for-pay downloadable series. I haven't been able to find anything about DRM issues, but given that they're streaming it freely now I find it unlikely that there will be any. If there turns out to be, I will be incredibly disappointed (like with the game Spore, which I was planning to buy until I read about their DRM scheme).
I so hope Doctor Horrible does well. This is the distribution form I intensely wish all the shows I like used. Get a taster for free, then pay as you go for as long as you like it (and it makes enough money, obviously). No ad breaks, no scheduling issues, several layers less of middlemen (so more of my money actually reach the creative people involved), it's just perfect. I think that the only reason we haven't seen this before now is that nobody has had to guts to try. Or, at least, nobody with the reputation to get widespread interest as well as the clout to get something done. Which Joss has. Like whoa.
So good luck, Joss and everyone else involved in Doctor Horrible's Sing-Along Blog. If the third installment lives up to the first two, you'll definitely be getting my money.
Two parts of three are avilable at the moment. The third part will be released on Saturday. On Sunday, and this is the reason I'm posting before having seen it all, the free version will be taken down. It will be replaced with a for-pay ("a nominal fee", according to Joss) download (and is already available like that from iTunes Store if you're in the United States, I'm told). Eventually there will be a DVD for sale as well. Joss has hinted that if it turns out well economically, it might possibly turn into a periodic for-pay downloadable series. I haven't been able to find anything about DRM issues, but given that they're streaming it freely now I find it unlikely that there will be any. If there turns out to be, I will be incredibly disappointed (like with the game Spore, which I was planning to buy until I read about their DRM scheme).
I so hope Doctor Horrible does well. This is the distribution form I intensely wish all the shows I like used. Get a taster for free, then pay as you go for as long as you like it (and it makes enough money, obviously). No ad breaks, no scheduling issues, several layers less of middlemen (so more of my money actually reach the creative people involved), it's just perfect. I think that the only reason we haven't seen this before now is that nobody has had to guts to try. Or, at least, nobody with the reputation to get widespread interest as well as the clout to get something done. Which Joss has. Like whoa.
So good luck, Joss and everyone else involved in Doctor Horrible's Sing-Along Blog. If the third installment lives up to the first two, you'll definitely be getting my money.
Oh, and if you don't care the least about all this, you can always go watch it because it's got Felicia Day in it, and we do like hot geeky women. And someone who answers the question "So, do you consider yourself a gamer?" with "I tanked the Twin Emperors in AQ40" certainly qualifies as geeky.
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Date: 2008-07-17 10:10 pm (UTC)May I ask, which browser? I can't get it on iTunes, and playback was jerky in Firefox 2, even after leaving it to download all night :(
What I could see was, indeed, a lot of fun :)
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