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Apr. 24th, 2011 11:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
greyaCaptain Hammer lives with an illusion of control over his life:
"seems destiny ends with me saving you.. etc".
Dr Horrible, on other hand, is fully aware of his lack of control:
"All the time that you beat me unconscious I forgive
All the crimes incomplete - listen, honestly I'll live"
and works relentlessly to gain it - in reality, not his imagination (by way of membership in ELE, building a freeze ray so that he can feel in control while approaching Penny, and by generally purging the world to his taste:
"...I swore to eliminate the worst
Of the plague that devoured humanity it’s true
I was vague on the “how”...")
Captain Hammer loses his illusion when he feels pain he can't handle (=he has no control over his life):
"Awww ahhhhh I’m in pain. I think this is what pain feels like. Oh mommy! Someone maternal. Get outta my way! I gotta get out! "
Dr Horrible gains the desired degree of control, but at the cost of a personal part of his life - a very organic outcome, but completely unanticipated by him:
"And Penny will see the evil me
Not a joke, not a dork, not a failure
And she may cry but her tears will dry
When I hand her the keys to a shiny new Australia"
He thought Penny would get over his "evil" aspect and appreciate the fact that he has control over things, but it actually could only blow her out of his life (sooner or later), since she gave up on control a long time ago, and in fact has embraced the lack of it by concentrating on helping people who have even less control of their lives (the homeless). Dr Horrible's idea of the future in ELE, and with Penny reminds me of dictators who tried to have a 'personal' life, which one way or another became victim of their quest for maintaining control.
"seems destiny ends with me saving you.. etc".
Dr Horrible, on other hand, is fully aware of his lack of control:
"All the time that you beat me unconscious I forgive
All the crimes incomplete - listen, honestly I'll live"
and works relentlessly to gain it - in reality, not his imagination (by way of membership in ELE, building a freeze ray so that he can feel in control while approaching Penny, and by generally purging the world to his taste:
"...I swore to eliminate the worst
Of the plague that devoured humanity it’s true
I was vague on the “how”...")
Captain Hammer loses his illusion when he feels pain he can't handle (=he has no control over his life):
"Awww ahhhhh I’m in pain. I think this is what pain feels like. Oh mommy! Someone maternal. Get outta my way! I gotta get out! "
Dr Horrible gains the desired degree of control, but at the cost of a personal part of his life - a very organic outcome, but completely unanticipated by him:
"And Penny will see the evil me
Not a joke, not a dork, not a failure
And she may cry but her tears will dry
When I hand her the keys to a shiny new Australia"
He thought Penny would get over his "evil" aspect and appreciate the fact that he has control over things, but it actually could only blow her out of his life (sooner or later), since she gave up on control a long time ago, and in fact has embraced the lack of it by concentrating on helping people who have even less control of their lives (the homeless). Dr Horrible's idea of the future in ELE, and with Penny reminds me of dictators who tried to have a 'personal' life, which one way or another became victim of their quest for maintaining control.