Experiment Eight

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Mom just owled me an article from the muggle paper that says there's going to be an Adventures of Captain Hammer movie. They just confirmed the cast list and everything. Next thing you know there will be a musical or something!

They can't be doing this. You've got to be kidding me. My childhood is over, this is not a test.

This Neil guy they have cast as Dr. Horrible looks like a total goober.

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rant mode engaged

[status_is_not_quo]

I'm not sure if you noticed, but there's a whole lot more to the comic than just "Captain Hammer beating the life out of Dr. Horrible". In fact, I would hazard a guess to say that if it wasn't absolutely essential to preserving the "good will out" status quo, Dr. Horrible would actually win more often than not.

But no, the corporate neanderthals crave BLOOD! God forbid that brains ever will out over brawn, in their self-indulgent jaunts through fantasyland!

what the hell is logic

[golgotha]

If dr horrible is half the developed character you believe him to be then explain to me why the comic is centered around captain hammer???
Wouldnt these "corporate neanderthals" who are intelligent enough to thought up such a "good character" realize how full of potential he is?
Answer: They wouldve if that were the case! But seeing that dr horrible is merely another run-of-the-mill blither similar to the likes of the villainous dr octopus they made a good decision and didnt bother.
Captain hammer is a hero fighting for the side of good and a real smashing bloke to boot rendering your argument moot.

no jake what have you done (I'm so sorry about how long this ended up)

[status_is_not_quo]

First of all, you seem to be under the egregious misapprehension that the author is synonymous with the publisher. It's obvious to anyone with two brain cells to rub together that had the publishers not cancelled it after twenty issues, the author had major plans for Dr. Horrible's character! Surely you noticed that the series cuts off abruptly right after introducing Captain Hammer's love interest. Obviously, it's incomplete. The only possible good that could come out of the inevitable trainwreck of the film is that the renewed interest may give the publishers cause to approach the artist again and offer him a new contract to continue the series.

The fact of the matter is that The Adventures of Captain Hammer was only made to look like a simple good versus evil children's comic, while also taking a downright scathing jab at the genre as a whole! Captain Hammer is an unlikeable, muscle-brained, slack-jawed buffoon who's utterly lacking in personality and tact and serves as a blank slate onto whom other mouth-breathers can project their jockish fantasies for blood and violence and - as you put it - fisticuffs.

Dr. Horrible, on the other hand, is a fascinating study of what happens to unappreciated genius, just going by the excerpts of his vlog that are shown through Captain Hammer's computer. Maybe if the public wasn't so busy mooning over Captain Hammer, corporate tool, they would have appreciated just how smart Dr. Horrible really is, and he could have discovered the cure for cancer by now, or something. But the society that worships musclebound paramecium-brains is the same society that has squandered his intellect and reduced him to a haunted, desperate shell of a man who tries to make a difference in society in the only way society has left him. He's tragic and haunted and wonderful.

But then again, I would expect that the complexities of a character like Dr. Horrible would be lost on a single-minded hero-complex Gryffindor stereotype like yourself.

he has created a monster

[golgotha]

Hm. Do forgive my baseless accusation but i have a nagging feeling in my abdomen thats telling me we arent conversing about beloved comic characters anymore!

And then promptly killed it.

[status_is_not_quo]

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I don't know where you could possibly have gotten that idea.

welp better decisions than dr. frankenstein

[golgotha]

Well i havent the faintest either!
Could it be the fact that youre being completely transparent?
It boggles me to no end.

[status_is_not_quo]

Wow, sarcasm! That's original!

Come back when you've put your grown-up pants on, English.
Which will be never, because you have the maturity of a sea sponge.

[golgotha]

At least im not the one harboring issues and taking them out on escapism!

[status_is_not_quo]

You've clearly never seen how ardently people will argue about these things on the internet.

Escapism is serious business, English.