I began cursing Joss Whedon’s name when I realized a few days ago that the three acts of Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog were already gone from the website before I’d had a chance to watch them and whisked away to iTunes. Boo that, I only have iTunes on my rusty old laptop which takes approximately 10 hours to boot up. I’m a busy girl, Joss Whedon, and even though I’m dedicated to seeing anything with Neil Patrick Harris, I still have to pay the bills.

Crisis averted, all three acts are available on Hulu. You can even watch them as one long video.

Having finally watched it last night, I’m mostly pleased with it. The songs definitely satisfied my musical-loving tastes. NPH makes a great unlikely evil villian and Nathan Fillion is just the kind of hero that you love to hate.

The ending is a bit jarring, but I hear there’s talk of a sequel, so maybe that will help smooth it over a bit? With Joss Whedon, who knows.

In other NPH news (read: How I Met Your Mother news), Sarah Chalke will be back next season. I don’t really think of it that much as news since the writers of the show really haven’t gotten rid of her yet.

But here’s something to all the Motherites who are wondering/hoping she’s the mother: STOP. Do you really think they’re going to let us get so intimate with the mother before revealing who she is? I think not, too obvious. I call it: biding time.

The Have You Met Ted blog drew some conclusions about some recent comments from co-producer Carter Bays about the show. Bays says he and his collaborators want to be done “writing a soap opera” by the end of the new season. That doesn’t mean they’ll be done with the show, it just means they’ll switch to a more sitcom-y format where episodes can be self-contained. You know, like the old pre-Friends days. Like in the Seinfeld days.

What Have You Met Ted thinks this means is that we’ll find out who the mother is at the end of the season and then get to watch her relationship with Ted grow in future seasons. I for one would be OK with this. I’m tired of waiting to learn who the mother is (I’m still holding out for Victoria) and think HIMYM is best when it’s punchy and sitcomy.

However, this article seems to indicate that the producers don’t want to reveal the mother until 2012, and oh by the way, they have this scene that they filmed with only Ted’s kids, the exec. producer and a cameraman that directly relates to the identity of the mother. Get those kids on the phone!

And since this post was supposed to be about NPH, here’s this: Carter Bays and Craig Thomas are quickly putting together a Bro Code book. Also, Barney’s little “thing” with Robin at the end of last season is supposed to be dealt with immediately at the beginning of the coming season.

Also, and this is a little late, The Park Bench named NPH as Nerd Man of the Month for July. Legendary, indeed.