{"id":1582,"date":"2012-11-25T15:42:54","date_gmt":"2012-11-25T23:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/?p=1582"},"modified":"2012-11-25T15:42:54","modified_gmt":"2012-11-25T23:42:54","slug":"mark-watches-commentary-the-musical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/2012\/11\/mark-watches-commentary-the-musical\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Watches ‘Commentary! The Musical’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Look, I didn’t even know this\u00c2\u00a0existed<\/em> until Andrea\/adaptation commissioned this from me. I’d seen\u00c2\u00a0Dr. Horrible’s Singalong Blog<\/em> way back in… 2009? I think Mark Reads\u00c2\u00a0Twilight<\/em> was still going on at the time. I’d never seen\u00c2\u00a0anything<\/em> by Joss Whedon, and I liked what I saw. It was silly, it was a musical\u00c2\u00a0AND I LOVE MUSICALS<\/em>, and then it had a sad ending\u00c2\u00a0and I really love sad endings<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Since then, I’ve seen it more times than I can count, but always online. I’d never bothered to purchase a DVD version of it because of\u00c2\u00a0reasons<\/em>. Actually, I guess I don’t purchase many DVDs at all these days, but that’s not the point. Obviously, this is how I missed out on the musical commentary track, but even then,\u00c2\u00a0none of you ever seemed to mention it<\/em>. It wasn’t a spoilery, off-limits topic, and yet NO ONE EVER TOLD ME THIS EXISTED.<\/p>\n

OH GOD.\u00c2\u00a0OH GOD<\/em>.<\/p>\n

<\/iframe><\/p>\nHonestly, I fully expected this to be a commentary track. I’ve read many of the comments in this community that alude to or contain full transcripts of the commentary for most of Joss’s shows, and I’ve enjoyed what I read. So I thought, “Hey, I bet this will just be really interesting and fun, and it’ll be a fun commission.”<\/p>\nHAHAHA.<\/p>\nHA<\/p>\nHA<\/em>.<\/p>\nIT’S A FULL MUSICAL. OH MY GOD. And it even\u00c2\u00a0sounds<\/em> like a commentary track, as if they’re all in the same room, spontaneously singing. Well, to an extent, that is. See… okay, I hope this isn’t blasphemous, but these songs almost sound\u00c2\u00a0better<\/em> than those in\u00c2\u00a0Dr. Horrible<\/em> itself. WHICH IS NOT SAYING THAT\u00c2\u00a0DR. HORRIBLE\u00c2\u00a0<\/em>IS BAD. IT ISN’T. But they’re fucking\u00c2\u00a0great<\/em>. I don’t even know if I can pick a favorite! “Strike” brilliantly summarizes the Writer’s Strike in 2008, and “Ten Dollar Solo” is just TOO PERFECT FOR WORDS. And then there’s that moment where Nathan Fillion is sing-bragging about being better than Neil, and then he appears on screen, and then it’s during the part where he’s\u00c2\u00a0choking Neil Patrick Harris<\/em>. It could not be timed better.<\/p>\nMusically, “Ninja Ropes” is probably my favorite composition, and I love the stereotypes Maurissa cycles through in “Nobody’s Asian in the Movies.” But I might choose “Heart (Broken)” as the most clever song, where Joss sings (Joss sings!!!!!) about how all this behind-the-scenes mumbo jumbo has dissected and ruined his art, which is highly ironic considering he is giving a behind-the-scenes on the behind-the-scenes commentary. My brain just broke. (“You’d be ignored at Comic-Con!” OH GOD, I LOVE IT.)<\/p>\nI’m excited to give these songs a listen again because\u00c2\u00a0they’re really good<\/em>, and I wish there was a musical theater show aside from\u00c2\u00a0Glee<\/em> or\u00c2\u00a0Blackpool<\/em> that I could review for Mark Watches because I LOVE MUSICALS SO, SO, SO MUCH. Perhaps I’ll put up a review on Christmas Day for\u00c2\u00a0Les Miserables<\/em>, though I warn you it might just be 2,000 words worth of sobbing because\u00c2\u00a0I cannot begin to explain the feelings I have for Les Miserables<\/em>.<\/p>\nEnjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Look, I didn’t even know this\u00c2\u00a0existed until Andrea\/adaptation commissioned this from me. I’d seen\u00c2\u00a0Dr. Horrible’s Singalong Blog way back in… 2009? I think Mark Reads\u00c2\u00a0Twilight was still going on at the time. I’d never seen\u00c2\u00a0anything by Joss Whedon, and I … <a href=\"https:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/2012\/11\/mark-watches-commentary-the-musical\/\">Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200],"tags":[411,410,14],"class_list":["post-1582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mark-does-stuff-2","tag-commentary-the-musical","tag-dr-horribles-singalong-blog","tag-joss-whedon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}