I'm definitely a Whedonite, but I think that even non Whedon fans will enjoy the interview he did on Gawker: Here's a quick excerpt:
Q. I love that your fiercest ass-kickers are always girls. Buffy, Willow, Anya, River Tam, and I'm kind of assuming that Eliza Dushku's character in Dollhouse is going to be the main force to be reckoned with. Yet we're in the middle of a summer of action blockbusters and only one of them, Wanted, even involves a powerful woman. Is there some reason that we can have a woman or a girl be the main action hero on TV but not in movies?
A. Movies are from the Devil. Also, it's only recently women got to be action heroes on TV. Progress is slow, and often non-existent. There's plenty of cool comics with female characters... But all it takes is one Catwoman to set the cause back a decade.
The trailer for his Writer's Strike project, "Dr Horrible's Sing Along Blog" is now available, and part one should be available tomorrow. It has Neil Patrick Harris and Nathan Fillion singing. It's a musical. Need I say more?
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