Wax Banks über Dr. Horrible
Ich kann gar nicht anfangen aufzuzählen auf wievielen Ebenen diese Analyse meine Gefühle trifft und bestätigt.
Dr Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, this summer's 45-minute web-serialized musical 'comedy' from Joss Whedon, isn't as rich as the best episodes of his long-form work; for instance, 'Restless' and 'Once More With Feeling,' respectively the dream-sequence and musical episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, are on par with Dr Horrible in terms of formal interest, but are enmeshed in seven years of complex narrative continuity that the low-budget one-off tale doesn't have (for better or worse). The advantage of a one-off is the chance to present familiar thematic material - the rush and burden and attractiveness of power, the ongoing victimization of women in men's power struggles, nerdly social difficulty - in stark terms, free of overdetermination and accumulated sympathies. The downside: a 45-minute show with 20 minutes of singing doesn't leave a lot of breathing room.
If you're a hack, that means you sacrifice complexity and just hit your one-two-three Big Points.
If you're Joss Whedon, on the other hand, you draw on whatever terrifying intergalactic power source brought you to this planet in the first place, and work the usual assortment of miracles.
Lesen, lesen, lesen!
Dr Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, this summer's 45-minute web-serialized musical 'comedy' from Joss Whedon, isn't as rich as the best episodes of his long-form work; for instance, 'Restless' and 'Once More With Feeling,' respectively the dream-sequence and musical episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, are on par with Dr Horrible in terms of formal interest, but are enmeshed in seven years of complex narrative continuity that the low-budget one-off tale doesn't have (for better or worse). The advantage of a one-off is the chance to present familiar thematic material - the rush and burden and attractiveness of power, the ongoing victimization of women in men's power struggles, nerdly social difficulty - in stark terms, free of overdetermination and accumulated sympathies. The downside: a 45-minute show with 20 minutes of singing doesn't leave a lot of breathing room.
If you're a hack, that means you sacrifice complexity and just hit your one-two-three Big Points.
If you're Joss Whedon, on the other hand, you draw on whatever terrifying intergalactic power source brought you to this planet in the first place, and work the usual assortment of miracles.
Lesen, lesen, lesen!
wiesengrund - 21. Oktober, 10:43
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