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Meta on Dr. Horrible as relating to the WGA strike, I swear I'll shut up about it soon! Now contains Spoilers for Part 3

Okay, maybe I'm thick, but I kind of just got this.

See, this was written during the Writer's Strike, right?

So, "Captain Hammer, Corporate Tool" = the AMPTP.

"Dr. Horrible" = Writer's (and now Actor's, I guess) Guilds.

And the object of their struggle? Is Penny. As in money. More specifically as in the one or two pennies per sale on DVD's and the however much of a fraction of a penny per view for online content.

So, we have Captain Hammer, a dense, mean-spirited, ~~giant dick~~ bully, who has Penny, and is keeping Penny away from Dr. Horrible for no reason other than because Dr. Horrible wants her, and Captain Hammer wants to make Dr. Horrible miserable.

So, by that token, I'm saying there is no way in hell Penny is going to end up on Captain Hammer's side in all this.

What do you think? Am I just really late to pick up the clue phone on that? Or am I reading stuff in that isn't there?

ETA: Part 3 Addendum. Hm. Well, could extend that metaphor into this equating to the first phase of the strike, and the AMPTP pulling the assorted stunts they did to destroy the offer on the table and make the writer's guild band together in a league to strike, while the press showed primarily the AMPTP as the victim and such, but right know I just want to string Joss Whedon up by his ears until the sequal comes out, because that was so very NOT THE END, dammit!

ETA: As a very late addition, if the whole 'Hammer=AMPTP' and 'Horrible=writers /actors guilds' then:

Johnny Snow=Canadian film industry. Just sayin'

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Eh. That's typical Joss for you. It doesn't go the way you think it will, not even the clever ones you've thought up. Damn.

I'm getting the impression this Joss fellow is as much of a bastard as Kripke is? Interesting...

Joss defined "bastard" before Kripke came along... In fact, this is a classic case of being Jossed (surely you've heard of it?). In retrospect it's so obvious! Typical hero/villain backstory, death of the one true love, innit?

I'd heard the term but never experienced it firsthand before. Definitely a typical backstory.

I just got a chance to watch part 2 and 3 and recalled you meta'd and came to read. Of course, your meta is wonderful and I never even thought of it that way so I must be the dense one. Heehee. And wow, depressing ending much? I was not obsessed with the Buffyverse while it was in its heyday but I did watch itat the end so I knew about "being Joss'd" and that seemed like a typical ending but I still didn't like it. I pray Kripke has more pity on us for the *sniff* "end" of SPN someday.

Kripke damn well better. It's absolutely possible to go out in a blaze of glory and still drive off together into the sunset without driving off a cliff or some such. :-P

I want there to be a part two to Dr. Horrible where everything gets fixed.

Ohhhh yes the man is a bastard. I did know that from watching Buffy and Angel..but still. Grrr. There damn well better be a sequel! Stringing up sounds pretty good to me;)

Sharon

Aside from watching Serenity, I really haven't watched any of his other stuff, so yeah. This was a crash course in 'Joss Whedon is a bastard'. And yes. Stringing up by the ears until he writes the second half. Or a series. *nods*

Joss really likes to make it HURT. I shouldn't have been surprised, after various painful happenings on Buffy & Angel, not to mention what he did in Serenity, but he did catch me off guard. Poor Dr. Horrible.

Sort of the 'steal your heart then rip it to itty bitty bits and jump on them then set them on fire' thing. Yeah.

wow I suck. I never, ever got that.... *sigh*

you = smart :)

Naw, I was just following the strike really close so the parallels jumped out at me. Also, I could be completely wrong.

what really gets me about not just that theory but about the show is that neither Dr. Horrible nor Captain Hammer actually ask Penny what SHE wants. They posture and they preen and they make assumptions, but they don't ask and look how things turn out - everyone loses.

Yep, and Supernatural only gets 16 episodes in season 3. *nods*

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