Nur eine von vielen derzeit spannenden Ideen/Analysen zu Dr. Horrible:

Yeah, it would be cool if she had whipped out an uzi and mowed them all down, then stood atop their corpses and said, "And that's what happens to jerks who mistreat women!"

Except that's not how it goes. That isn't how it goes at all. Women get torn apart over stuff like this. Their lives get destroyed. That's the sucker punch with this piece. If it didn't make you mad, then you missed the point.

This is, of course, entirely what I am reading into it. I don't know what Joss' intent was. If this is what he was trying to say, then go me, I rule. If not, well we watch and we take away what we take away. This is what I took away from it.

The fact that it's all wrapped up in something that is, in parts, genuinely hilarious is masterful. This isn't me swooning over the awesomeness that is Whedon. As I've stated before, he is not my hero. But Joss, if this is what you were aiming for? You nailed it. If you were trying to do something else and I missed it? Well, this is what you should have been doing, and if you want to nod and say you meant it all along, I won't tell.

What I hated about it is what I loved about it, and there aren't many works in any medium where I can say that and mean it.

And that's me, taking silly fun and making it dreadfully serious.

Zu einer anderen, der Innocence-Debatte, werd ich später vielleicht etwas selbst sagen. Es gibt da grad echt viel aufzuarbeiten.

Wie Joss durften Fans auch NPH bei der Washington Post anchatten, und neben ein paar netten Dr. Horrible-Erwähnungen, kommt ganz am Ende der Brüller:

Damn: I'm straight and I think I'd go out with you. Probably upset the wife and kids, though. So what do you think happened to Doogie? Did he grow up, buy a Porsche and start a family practice in the suburbs?

Neil Patrick Harris: He probably developed an addiction to painkillers and wanders around with a cane at some hospital somewhere...

Bin grad auf kleinem Verschnuafurlaub in Salzburg, und daher nicht dauernd up-to-date mit Dollhouse. Sorry für die kurze Pause. Ich verweise mal auf dollrific für eine gute Zusammenfassung der bisherigen Whedon-Interviews bei der press tour, und schließe mich dem besonders wichtigen Verweis auf das Maureen Ryan-Interview an:

“The fact is, there are echoes of what happened before [with ‘Firefly’], so some people are worried,” Whedon told me. “My response to that is, first of all, thanks, I’m glad you care. And also, you can be worried. The show could have all the support in the world from Fox and still not [be successful]. There’s no guarantees in this business. The fact is, their support hasn’t wavered, but they did sort of view what I’d done as a little bit different from what I’d sold.”

“I looked at [the first pilot] with a very cold eye, an executive’s eye, and said, ‘OK, I know what they want that they don’t have,’” Whedon said. “I asked them, ‘Do you want [a new pilot]?’ earlier, and they said, ‘No, no, no, we just want to figure out how to make this work.’ I said, ‘Here’s how you’re going to make this work. I’m going to write you a new one.’ They were very grateful.”

Besonder in-depth wird's dann später:

MR: How conscious of herself can she become? This is one of my biggest questions about the show.

JW: It’s a two-step, back and forth, back and forth at the beginning, because she’ll get a piece of self-awareness, that’ll be the crux of the episode, and then it’ll be wiped away. Whether or not she still has it… because after every engagement her memory is completely wiped and her personality is removed, and she waits for the next [engagement].

But she starts to collect little bits. Whether or not she gets all those little bits together and starts forming a coherent person or plan to become a person or whether they all get taken away from her is her constant struggle.

MR: I have to ask the Fox question.

JW: Yes, Eliza is a fox.

Details über den neuen Piloten?

I’ve just finished the script of the new first episode, and I’ve really used the opportunity to really amp some of the characters and their introductions. [Cast member] Tahmoh [Penikett’s] going to do some Muay Thai. He’s going to be unhappy about the Muay Thai. “Do I hafta? Darn!” [Whedon was joking -- Tahmoh’s very into martial arts]

Und die wunderbare Frage nach Dr. Horrible oder Dollhouse:

MR: If you had to choose a way to make stuff, would you make it the “Dr. Horrible” way, or the “Dollhouse” way?

JW: You know, [gesturing to the lavish, two-story “Dollhouse” main set] it doesn’t suck to have a set. I like to live in both world. Sometimes I go to McDonald’s, sometimes I go to [surely the name of a nice restaurant that was obscured on this recording when I got up from the table].

[The last questions concerns the last act of “Dr. Horrible,” so don’t read on unless you’ve seen it.]

MR: Did you have to go to the dark place in that last act?

JW: I’ve taken a huge amount of flack for that. People are like, “Joss has run out of ideas. All he can do is be mean.”

MR: But I guess, if you’re constructing an evil supervillain, he has to have a tortured backstory.

JW: I’m just sayin’.