{"id":88,"date":"2015-05-31T13:48:11","date_gmt":"2015-05-31T17:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.klcameron.com\/whedon\/?p=88"},"modified":"2015-05-31T13:48:11","modified_gmt":"2015-05-31T17:48:11","slug":"8-bit-dr-horrible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.klcameron.com\/whedon\/8-bit-dr-horrible\/","title":{"rendered":"8-bit Dr. Horrible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"8-Bit Dr. Horrible (Act 1)\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9_9x9m8F1b4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>First of all, I&#8217;m in love with this thing. I can&#8217;t stop watching it. But that&#8217;s rather, well, besides the point. If we look at the content and the world, it fits with Dr. Horrible (you&#8217;ll be able to accurately compare this on Thursday, but this is a fantastic interpretation of the world created by Whedon. If we look at the content, basically everything you need from Act 1 is there: the freeze ray, the Laundromat, the letter from Bad Horse, the saving of Penny, etc. The story is told through a medium usually reserved for video games: tid bits of action\u00a0and story through dialogue. What this lacks tho is the lyrics to the songs (which in 8-bit are just as amazing!) for the\u00a0most part, which is the core portion of Dr. Horrible. I mentioned it in class about how musicals explore the depths of characters as you cannot lie in song. Well, Dr. Horrible is what I call the anti-musical (more discussion to happen in my presentation) so you miss a lot of the sub-text and plot lines Whedon builds into the lyrics. Freeze Ray sets up a lot of the struggling love life of Dr. Horrible, but you get an awkward 3-step &#8220;I love you hair&#8221; comment from your character, but what you don&#8217;t get is the back story of\u00a0<em>why<\/em> this happens in the text. Overall, this type of interpretation is more creative than it is explorative in the world of Whedon. At it&#8217;s core, it seems to want to bring two fandoms together (retro gaming and Whedon\/Dr. Horrible) in a fun and cheery way. And let me tell you, I&#8217;ll be watching the entirety of this 8-bit rendition as soon as I possibly can.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First of all, I&#8217;m in love with this thing. I can&#8217;t stop watching it. But that&#8217;s rather, well, besides the point. If we look at the content and the world, it fits with Dr. Horrible (you&#8217;ll be able to accurately &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.klcameron.com\/whedon\/8-bit-dr-horrible\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.klcameron.com\/whedon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.klcameron.com\/whedon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.klcameron.com\/whedon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.klcameron.com\/whedon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.klcameron.com\/whedon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.klcameron.com\/whedon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89,"href":"https:\/\/www.klcameron.com\/whedon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions\/89"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.klcameron.com\/whedon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.klcameron.com\/whedon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.klcameron.com\/whedon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}