{"id":1774,"date":"2008-07-24T08:00:53","date_gmt":"2008-07-24T13:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1774"},"modified":"2008-07-24T06:40:02","modified_gmt":"2008-07-24T11:40:02","slug":"dr-horrible-teaser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1774","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Horrible Teaser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Horrible is gone, and I won&#8217;t see him again until <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drhorrible.com\">DHSAB<\/a> comes out on DVD, but the teaser trailer is lots of fun:<\/p>\n<p><center><code><object width=\"400\" height=\"225\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1227202&amp;server=www.vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1227202&amp;server=www.vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vimeo.com\/1227202?pg=embed&#038;sec=1227202\">Teaser<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vimeo.com\/drhorrible?pg=embed&#038;sec=1227202\">Dr. Horrible&#039;s Sing-Along Blog<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com?pg=embed&#038;sec=1227202\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/code><\/center><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s kind of messed up to be looking to the <em>teaser<\/em> trailer to supplement the offerings of the <em>actual product<\/em>, since I think it&#8217;s supposed to be the other way &#8217;round. <\/p>\n<p>While Dr. Horrible is unmistakably a success from an entertainment standpoint, I&#8217;ve been wondering if this project will succeed from a financial one.  I lack the knowledge to even do some back-of-the-napkin estimates, but since this is the internet it was a safe guess <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tvsquad.com\/2008\/07\/23\/dr-horrible-by-the-numbers\/\">someone else would<\/a>.  That links to an article discussing some numbers concocted by a guy who <a href=\"http:\/\/whedonesque.com\/\">Joss Whedon<\/a> himself said was &#8220;not far off&#8221;.  We have no way of knowing how many iTunes downloads there have been, but the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.jeffreymcmanus.com\/896\/whats-in-it-for-doogie-howser\/\">numbers<\/a> do give us a picture of how many copies they would need to sell to begin to turn a profit, and they seem pretty low.  That is to say, I would be very surprised if the show wasn&#8217;t making money already.<\/p>\n<p>Now if they would just hurry up with the DVD.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Horrible is gone, and I won&#8217;t see him again until DHSAB comes out on DVD, but the teaser trailer is lots of fun: Teaser from Dr. Horrible&#039;s Sing-Along Blog on Vimeo. It&#8217;s kind of messed up to be looking to the teaser trailer to supplement the offerings of the actual product, since I think [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-1774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dream-cast","category-nerd-culture","tag-dr-horrible"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}