So my icon isn't really appropriate...

[lirazel]

But...

oh. my. god.

My first thought on finishing "Dr. Horrible"?

I knew it.  I knew Joss couldn't write anything (even, apparently, a comedic musical) without killing off a major character.

But I'm still completely in shock.

I mean, here I was, enjoying the heck out of Nathan's horribly smarmy song and his over-the-top grins and seeing David Fury and Marti Noxon playing the newscasters (and how much of a fangirl am I for recognizing writers?) and thinking that Maurisa is totally cute and that I really need a Captain Hammer groupie shirt and laughing at the humor and then--


How could you kill Felicia Day, Joss Whedon?  Have you no soul?


But at the same time, could it have gone any other way?  I mean, seriously?  I now see that it was an origins story, all along--how Dr. Horrible became Dr. Horrible.  And that is awesome and so well-done.  And isn't the thing I've always loved about Joss's work the juxtaposition of humor and pathos that he does better than just about anyone?

Still, I need to think about this, process it for a while, because I'm clearly not being coherent.

Anyone out there with thoughts?