What is Dr Horrible's Sing Along Blog? Other than a Joss Whedon thing with Neil Patrick Harris in it.
It followed Dr Horrible, who was a wannabe super-villain...fighting his nemesis Captain Hammer. He also happened to be in love with a girl (Felicia Day). It was a musical. It was also very good. It comes off as completely irreverent, but yeah, then it just punches you in the gut. It's a good little film.
Basically, it was made during the writer's strike, because Whedon wanted to explore new media. It's a web-series. You can get it on DVD now.
nd we were talking about how the "weapons stolen from Heaven" storyline from S6 could have been THE MOST AWESOME storyline. Because that's just been left hanging, and the whole "war in Heaven" thing has just been pushed to the side. And in my mind, that's a plotline-on-a-plate right there.
Yeah, I can see your point there. At the same time though, I think the writers backed themselves into a corner with the way they wrote the angels starting in S4 - basically, they were too powerful. So, rather than figure out how to weaken them (which they are CONSTANTLY trying to do with Cas, because the fans love him so much)...they instead tried to think of ways to place them on the back-burner. Hence, the off screen war in heaven. I mean, there comes a point where WHY would Sam and Dean meddle in heaven's affairs? Why would two puny humans who are no match for angels (not really) do anything? HOW could they do anything? It worked in S4-S5, because the angels needed Sam and Dean alive...they needed their consent. They don't anymore, well, not unless they actually try to jump-start the apocalypse again...but that'd be a pretty lame storyline (Apocalypse Now II: Apocalypse Again!)
So, yeah, I think that's why we had the angel bloodbath in late S5 and S6, and why they are trying to think of storylines that don't revolve around heaven/hell. Whether that's the right track or not is arguable. I'm just saying that I understand why they did it.
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Date: 2012-04-28 09:39 pm (UTC)It followed Dr Horrible, who was a wannabe super-villain...fighting his nemesis Captain Hammer. He also happened to be in love with a girl (Felicia Day). It was a musical. It was also very good. It comes off as completely irreverent, but yeah, then it just punches you in the gut. It's a good little film.
Basically, it was made during the writer's strike, because Whedon wanted to explore new media. It's a web-series. You can get it on DVD now.
nd we were talking about how the "weapons stolen from Heaven" storyline from S6 could have been THE MOST AWESOME storyline. Because that's just been left hanging, and the whole "war in Heaven" thing has just been pushed to the side. And in my mind, that's a plotline-on-a-plate right there.
Yeah, I can see your point there. At the same time though, I think the writers backed themselves into a corner with the way they wrote the angels starting in S4 - basically, they were too powerful. So, rather than figure out how to weaken them (which they are CONSTANTLY trying to do with Cas, because the fans love him so much)...they instead tried to think of ways to place them on the back-burner. Hence, the off screen war in heaven. I mean, there comes a point where WHY would Sam and Dean meddle in heaven's affairs? Why would two puny humans who are no match for angels (not really) do anything? HOW could they do anything? It worked in S4-S5, because the angels needed Sam and Dean alive...they needed their consent. They don't anymore, well, not unless they actually try to jump-start the apocalypse again...but that'd be a pretty lame storyline (Apocalypse Now II: Apocalypse Again!)
So, yeah, I think that's why we had the angel bloodbath in late S5 and S6, and why they are trying to think of storylines that don't revolve around heaven/hell. Whether that's the right track or not is arguable. I'm just saying that I understand why they did it.