There have been countless posts avowing Dr. Horrible and even Hammer as legitimate characters, and this is not wrong, but have we at all stopped to think about why we are so quick to come to the defense of the "bad" guys?
We have taken the opposite of whats easy (loving the Hero), and in trying to backlash this (loving the Villain) we have almost pulled a 360 to the point of losing what is truly "good" in the Horrible Whedon world.
I know I found myself really hating Penny. Then I felt kind of bad (after Anna's post and a few re-watches of the Blog), I just totally pulled a Capt. Hammer and hated on the chick who loves the homeless.
Dude, how heartless am I?
In the same way that the Blog is the method of the new generation, maybe finding flaw is a nasty-side effect of a World/'Verse(Television world/'verse) that has given us so many good examples.
We still have Buffy, and Willow, and Angel, and Mal, and River, a variety (and only a few of many!) of Heros and excellently crafted characters. We worked so hard to find the good in them. Sometimes it was easy, and sometimes it was not. Sometimes they were perfect in their abilities, and sometimes they found 'perfection' in their failures. But not matter what we always got back up with, and stood by them.
A newer generation of writing and characters has great opportunity, and viewers have great responsibility, to find the good and the bad in the future of TV examples and role models and make something out of it, form an opinion, protest, identify with or even bitch about.
Just keep the dialogue going, and maybe ease up a little on the hate.
3 comments:
I agree. But I'd say we don't identify with Penny because she is the most realistically portrayed, as far as trying to change the world stuff. Because what can we do besides collect signatures, volunteer, vote, protest, etc. and what does any of that do in the end?
Al of us want to be Dr. Horrible or Captain Hammer b/c then we could legitimately try to change things.
It is kind of sad though to think of the person most like us as being naive and killed off, even without complaining about Penny, she is not at all wised-up to the characters of Horrible and Hammer.
I somewhat agree about the hate on penny being that she is the most realistic. however I do not understand why most people find her to be insignificant. Without her there is no show, in my opinion she is the main reason as to why Dr. Horrible does the thing he does.
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