Fury of Solace

I have no idea how popular this video is. I'm usually hit # 10,000,001 on YouTube when it comes to viral videos so this could be something that everybody knows about except me. I heard about it a few days ago and just got around to watching it today. It's an amateur made web video called Fury of Solace and I wasn't expecting much and much was what I didn't not get...not much was what I...screw it, here's the video.


Submitted for your approval: Fury of Solace's application for admission into the Evil League of Evil from Fury of Solace on Vimeo.

I wasn't even going to watch it since I thought it would be nothing but some dumb little piece of Dr. Horrible fanfic. It's not perfect. In fact, it's pretty damn far from being perfect. What really grabbed me was the concept. I kept going back in my mind to the idea of a man who has to do something horrible in order for something good to happen. Mind you, if some guy came up to me and said, "Kill this girl's parents so she can become a superhero," I'd probably be a tad skeptical. You know, maybe demand to see his Powerpoint presentation on the subject or something like that. Still, this is the superhero world and if people in that world stopped to question every half-baked prophecy they heard, they'd never get anything done.

I wonder what they could have done if they'd had a budget bigger than however much change they happened to have in their pockets on shooting day. Maybe the girl could have done some actual superhero stuff instead of walking casually on rooftops and down ladders. As I said, though, I have to take it for what it is. With all its flaws, the idea behind the project still managed to grab me. Reading their website, I'm not even sure of the next chapter in this story will be another video or a webcomic but I am at least mildly intrigued as to where it's going next.

UPDATE 3/10/09 -- Emmett Furey, Fury of Solace's writer, director, producer, star and, I assume, the guy who went out for KFC when everyone got hungry and who had to unplug the toilet on the set when someone backed it up, emailed me to thank me for the write up. He clarified for me that episode 2 will be in the form of a webcomic while #3 will be another video. I'm not sure how well that's going to work but, then again, it's free so who am I to complain? I hope he doesn't think I'm more than some dude on the internet who writes as a hobby and that I have some vast following I can deliver to him in the form of new fans.