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[ SECRET POST #574 ]
⌈ Secret Post #574 ⌋
Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.
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Re: 101
Actually, the truth is, I agree with about half of what you said. Mostly the stuff about storytelling and expectation. I always learned that good writing meant giving the readers what they expect, but not in a way they expect it, and that from the beginning you were supposed to be whispering "expect a tragedy" "expect a happy ending" "expect silliness" etc with the overall tone. The first episode is just brimming with "expect fun and silliness" and the second promises a hint of darkness, but still not the, well...the fridge.
I'm sick of hearing people say "It's Joss Whedon; what did you expect, loser?" Sorry, but due to this and that, I haven't actually seen a lot of Buffy, so my Joss-experience comes mostly from Firefly, which I thought was 100% awesome, and Serenity, which kicked me in the gut, but which I still believe would've been awesome if it had been told over the course of another two seasons or so instead of rushed into the ending.
I don't have any problem whatsoever with the overall storytelling in Dr. Horrible--I like the evil laugh thing, the useless powers. I even like Penny, because as someone else pointed out, I think she's meant to be less of a person than a sort of representation of Billy's soul, or a part of it (and she has just as much character as Captain Hammer). Plus, I'm a sucker for old-school comics, and Penny seems more like an hommage to the girlfriends of that era.
Basically, I liked everything about it until the final episode, partially because hey, what happened to all the fun, catchy songs that I was humming the next day at work, but mostly because, as you put it, tragedy=/=art.
I think it is weak to pull a tragic ending just for the sake of making people sad. I still froth about Wash's death in Serenity because the primary reason of it was to show "anyone can die" which only works on the first viewing. The sad ending upset me, which evokes an emotional response and all, but you're exactly right--it just feels lazy.
Ah. "Everybody lives." I love Moffat for doing that. Tad Williams, surprisingly, does a pretty good variant half the time. Unexpected happy without losing the poignancy.