My Eyes

From Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog, comes today's entry.

During the writers strike of 2007-2008, Joss Whedon and other collaborators (including quite a bit of people from the Whedon clan), came up with a self-budgeted story about a fledgling supervillan. Bringing in Nathan Fillion, Felicia Day and Neil Patrick Harris together on their off hours (of which they had many, at that time), over an interesting shooting schedule, they composed one of the most interesting, viral pieces of professional composition that has hit the interewebs to date. In a three part saga, the tale of Dr. Horrible has reached millions of eyes, was #1 on iTunes and at Amazon.com, and had gained numerous awards and accolades.

The song "My Eyes," sung here at the beginning of Act II, is eloquently performed by Neil Patrick Harris and Felicia Day. The vocal harmonies are very well done, but the real piece of masterwork is the lyrics, and the juxtaposition of the two characters as they sing of their thoughts. Evil and Rapture, Love and Pain, Hope and Despair infuse them with emotive, lyrical questions that don't seem to have a resolution...
But maybe you should check out the Final Act.


In any case, you could check it out on YouTube, or even DL it from iTunes. It's not too hard, and probably the best $5 you could spend today.
Chill,
-om