Some years ago (okay, precisely, it was July 16, 2008 - check it here), I posted about Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog. Since then, it's become a cult favorite and we expect season 2 (or a prequel sequel) to air sometime in the future (it's in the works, but not sure when it'll be available). It was a fun project that was free to the public to watch and it was entertaining (not to mention I enjoy the tune of "Bad Horse Chorus"). In that show, Nathan Fillion, Neil Patrick Harris, and Felicia Day stared. I, of course, knew of NPH and Fillion before then, but the Blog was my first real exposure to Felicia Day. I just knew she was a "Whedon girl," which is basically like any actor who tends to become associated with a particular director or producer (e.g., Christian Bale and Joseph Gordon-Levitt are becoming Chris Nolan guys, Helen Bonham Carter is (always) a Tim Burton girl, etc, etc). In other words, they just tend to do projects with the same director or producer a lot. I liked her in the Blog, but hadn't thought much of her beyond it.
The other day (or week), Chris was watching The Guild on Netflix, said it was funny, and I should watch it. I basically put it on the back burner since I was trying to complete all my summer TV shows (it was an intense few days of Royal Pains, The Closer, Necessary Roughness, and Political Animals. I still have Common Law and Burn Notice to finish). Well, the other day I was bored at work and didn't want to watch Vampire Diaries, but wanted to watch something while on lunch so I started The Guild. Yeah, that was pretty much the beginning of the end.
I.am.hooked.
The Guild is basically about a group of people who are in a guild for a MMORPG (for those that don't know, MMORPG is basically an on-line game that has quests, etc, etc). The main person is Felicia Day's character whose on-line name is Codex and she does video diaries; however, the show chronicles the interactions of "The Guild" on- and off-line. It's pretty nerdy and hilarious. If you play a MMO or are at all in the "know" about them, it's funny. If you don't play one, I'm not sure if it'd be as funny, but I think it'd still be funny in its own way. It's silly and doesn't take itself seriously. There are definitely things in it anyone could find funny, but it is for adults. It's not like it's rated R or anything, but it is more of a PG-13 thing. There are 5 seasons and a 6th season starting October 2nd.
So, The Guild is amazing and lots of laughs. I haven't laughed out loud to something like that in a while, but the best thing about the show? It's on YouTube and totally free to watch. How amazing is that?! They've grown significantly since the first season, which was helped by funding from fans. Now Microsoft, Sprint, and someone else sponsors the show. In addition, they've branched out to do webisodes with the main cast doing various different things ("Written by a Kid" is pretty funny). You can watch all the geekiness here: Geek & Sundry. To wade through all the various playlists, you can find the individual seasons (stitched together into one long "movie" instead of the individual episodes) here in the playlists page. If you want the original webisodes and/or want to laugh at the Christmas stuff ("Twas the Night Before Christmas" (hilarious) and the Christmas Raid Carol (also hilarious)), go to their old YouTube page called Watch The Guild (uploaded videos at the bottom has the individual webisodes). They also have some fun music videos and some other songs that you can find on iTunes and/or on YouTube ("(I'm the One That's) Cool" is practically the nerd/geek theme song of now..."(Do You Wanna Date My) Avatar" is funny...and "Game On" is especially funny since it's a Bollywood-themed video/song).
So, I can't wait till Tuesday when season 6 starts! Not to mention you can't say Felicia Day isn't talented...
In other news, started reading the new JK Rowling book. I'm not very far in it because Amazon was ridiculously SLOW in shipping it to me (come on! You charged me sales tax, you can at least get me my book on the day it was released rather than the NEXT day!). Okay, so most books/things I wouldn't care about, but...when I pre-order a book back in April, I expect delivery on the day it's released! :) I almost cancelled my order and re-ordered it they were so slow on notifying me my book was coming to me. I almost even bought it at Costco...! At any rate, it is an adult book, but what'd you expect? We were all warned and I at least went into this book knowing it's a) not Harry Potter, b) not going be a great literature work (a good read, but not great), and c) going to be FOR an adult. So far, it's met my expectations. I think it's interesting that I'm 60 pages into a 503 page book and so far it's all been about how everyone is passing on the news that Barry Fairbrother is dead and HOW he died. At the same time, it's a great way to introduce the townspeople, the characters, and each of their personalities. I will say that it's fantastic reading a JK Rowling book. Her writing style hit me from the first page of reading it and brought back the way I would read Harry Potter. That lady certainly can write. However, we'll see how the rest goes!
With that...I've got a bathroom to clean or reading to do or the trivia episodes of The Guild to watch. Oh, I suppose I've got my week's TV shows to watch too (Fringe starts its final season tonight! :( ). I'm now convinced I want Christopher and Sonjia to go to Fashion Week on Project Runway FOR SURE. Dmitry and Fabio are toss-ups. Melissa, as much as I like her, I just don't think she's strong enough. She's been melting down the last few episodes (just finished this week's episode, so it's fresh in my mind!). Hm. I want to redo my nails before tomorrow too...Oh the things to do...
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