Charybdis Sings

It's not often that the commentary track of a DVD puts you in that mental space of "should I laugh or cry?". Even rarer when that commentary track itself is a musical comedy (wait, has there ever been one of those before?). But Commentary! The Musical! did just that. I cried as I laughed. Twice. The rest of the time, I was just laughing, but 2 out of 14 songs really moved me.

For those not in the know, Commentary! The Musical! is one of the commentary tracks on the DVD release of Dr Horrible's Sing-Along Blog. Mostly it's a laugh riot, with the heart of it being a trio of songs explaining how Nathan Fillion and Neil Patrick Harris hate each other. Hilarious stuff.

The tracks that really touched me were Track 2: Strike! and Track 11: Heart, Broken. Joss Whedon pours his heart into them.

My favorite passages:

HOMER’S ODYSSEY WAS SWELL
A BUNCH OF GUYS THAT WENT THROUGH HELL
HE TOLD THE TALE BUT DIDN’T TELL
THE AUDIENCE WHY
HE DIDN’T SAY, HERE’S WHAT IT MEANS
AND HERE’S A FEW DELETED SCENES
CHARYBDIS TESTED WELL WITH TEENS
...
IT’S BROKEN BY THE ENDLESS LOADS
OF MAKING-OFS AND MOBISODES
THE TIE-INS, PREQUELS, GAMES AND CODES
THE AUDIENCE BUYS
THE NARRATIVE DIES

That's pretty fuckin' ballsy for a writer/director to be singing on a DVD commentary. My hat is off to you, Joss.

Just wanted to share that with you, since I mostly bitch about things on the net, and rarely remember to praise or make recommendations. Of course, I'm praising and recommending something that itself contains an awful lot of bitching. Hmm...

For those of you too cheap to spring for the DVD, here's the rest of the lyrics.