This post will also be a big SPOILER for Serenity.
Joss Whedon is a Dick!
He's amazingly talented at writing and directing and he's amazingly talented at writing musical numbers.
But he continues to develop projects where he creates people that are extremely likable and then he KILLS them.
After Serenity's shocking death, I became uneasy at how casually he can be cruel to these characters he loves, and these characters he creates for us to love. There's the senseless victims and then the destroyed souls that must keep on living. He did it way back with Buffy, and now it returns with Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, which was supposed to be a fun little lark, but in an effort to grow emotional depth becomes a complete turn off by the end. Until the conclusion, it's light, very funny and has amazingly complex and memorable musical numbers. At the end all I could think was "thanks a lot, Dick!" And this senseless death is becoming very cliched for him. He needs to, just once, try ending a story on a happy note. We won't be upset with him for making us feel good when it's over. Instead, he makes us feel Great then smashes our heart with a hammer.