In this case, I didn't mind it as a refrigerate-the-woman thing, especially since I can't think of any other ending that would have been more satisfying and not changed the shape of the thing. (I'd have liked her to reject both of them, but one can argue that this would be too strong a shift to making this Penny's story instead of Dr Horrible's, and that this wasn't the kind of story that supports that kind of shift of character focus.) I just minded it as Joss doing the same thing for the twentieth time and making sure that all hope of Penny having a relationship with anyone at all was killed dead.
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Date: 2008-07-21 06:25 pm (UTC)In this case, I didn't mind it as a refrigerate-the-woman thing, especially since I can't think of any other ending that would have been more satisfying and not changed the shape of the thing. (I'd have liked her to reject both of them, but one can argue that this would be too strong a shift to making this Penny's story instead of Dr Horrible's, and that this wasn't the kind of story that supports that kind of shift of character focus.) I just minded it as Joss doing the same thing for the twentieth time and making sure that all hope of Penny having a relationship with anyone at all was killed dead.