I just watched Dr. Horrible Act 1 and 2 again.  I can hardly wait for Act 3 this Friday night at midnight (9 PM PST – Yippie!)  It looks like I will be buying all three on iTunes, my first iTunes purchase ever.

First of all I really want to support Joss in making this available.  I want it to be so wildly successful that he and others will make more good quality programming available like this.  But probably more importantly, I don’t want to wait for the DVD to come out to see it again after Sunday when it goes offline. . . .

Besides the campy songs, catchy one-liners and cheese character names, the thing I really like is the complex Dr. Horrible character played by Neil Patrick Harris and the contrast with his arch nemisis Captain Hammer, played by Nathan Fillian.  We have a protagonist and an antagonist, but in this case, the protagonist is Dr. Horrible, the super-villain wanna-be.

In the first act we are introduced to the main character, who happens to be a “bad guy.”  We meet the good guy, but we are really rooting for the bad guy, and we are OK with that.

Interestingly, by the end of the second act we see that even though Dr. Horrible is on the wrong side of the law, he is the better man.  While Captain Hammer is good buddies with the mayor, he is really not a very nice guy.  So while we thought we were rooting for the bad guy, we were rooting for the good guy.

Now the only question is what will happen next.  Will Dr. Horrible prove he is evil enough to Bad Horse to enter the Evil League of Evil?  What will Penny think when she realizes that “Billy” is positively motivated, but willing to step outside the law to get there?  What will become of Captain Hammer?

At the end of Act 1, before I saw Act 2, I actually entertained the idea that maybe Penny was a secret plant from the Evil League of Evil, sent to observe Dr. Horrible.  After Act 2 I am pretty sure she is who she appears to be, but I am OK with being surprised in Act 3.

I just hope the sound track comes out soon.

For my house it seems like not enough.  Built in the kitchen are 3, then one in each bathroom.  Then we have various dressers in the bedrooms: Master bedroom: 15, Boys: 5, Girls: 8.  The den/office has a number of containers with drawers, probably 10, and then one in the TV room.  Total: 41.  Seems like a lot of them now that I count it up.

• How do you know you are not upside down and gravity isn’t really pulling you up?
• Have you ever been your imagination?
• Have you ever exceeded your imagination?

Of course part of me wants to give a simple answer, but then I realized that these questions are not looking for an answer, but consideration.  Much like the sound of one hand clapping.

I remember a question I always wondered, which these questions reminded me of, is how do we know that what I see as red everyone else sees as red?  Couldn’t we all see different colors?  What I see as red you see as blue, but we both learned that apples are what we call red, so you call blue red.  Of course if this is true then neither of us see real red or real blue.

So what do you see?

So how do we do this in a blog?  Well, I ask a question, and then you post the answer in your blog (linking back to my question) then in the same post come up with a question of your own.  So then someone can follow the links back to find the question for the answer they just read.  If there are already trackbacks then follow those to find someone who’s question hasn’t been answered yet, and you can link to and answer that one.
My question for you:

If you could be any animal, what would you be and why?

Alright, link away and I look forward to reading your answers!