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• Four Years Later, The Storied 4-Minute BUFFY: THE ANIMATED SERIES Presentation Stalks YouTube!! [AICN]

Q. Nathan Fillion and Neil Patrick Harris in an Internet musical in which the lovable loser baddy is kind of the good guy, and the good guy is kind of a dick—and it's a musical?! Um, how? Wha? How on earth did this develop?

A. Who is to say who is the villain and who is the hero? Probably the dictionary. But I know that people who grow up identifying with outsiders are the people I are. Plus singing is the universal language, along with being on fire.

Q. You worked with Nathan on the last season of Buffy—he was scary and he thumbed poor Xander's eye out!! I hate him! But, oh, he was awesome in Firefly and Serenity, so I love him!—but how did you hook up with Neil Patrick Harris for "Dr. Horrible"? Do geek heros (or heros of geeks) just hang out in all the same places?

A. You can go to Famousperson.org and rent them. You can also get lesser celebrities on EBaio. Hey-oh!

Q. Nathan Fillion strikes me as a great big pirate/cowboy sort of man-among-men. Surely such men cannot sing! Can he? LIke really?

A. Nate's got pipes. (But we used Marni Nixon's voice anyway.) There's very little Nate can't do. He's a renaissance man! Like with the sculpting and the Italian guys!

Q. In my dreams I traverse great depths and voids of unnamed space and find myself in a netherworld where untold numbers of Buffy and Firefly props are just laying around and I can just take them back to my apartment and mount them in the sweetest little shrines. What Buffy/Firefly props have you held onto as personal mementos?

A. I have a life-sized Sean Maher made of human flesh that keeps screaming that it's the real Sean Maher and I should unchain it. Amazing technology!

Q. Seriously, though. Nathan Fillion. Singing? James Marsters, maybe, but Fillion?

A. Nathan will sing your scrotum off, Poi-Dog!

Q. Any surprise cameos we can look forward to in "Dr. Horrible"? I know I could use a fix of some Anthony Head or Emma Caulfield about now. I'm dying!

A. Two words, true believer: no. Ah, there was no second word. Sorry.

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.

Q. Speaking of which. You're becoming an important voice for equal rights and protection for women and girls. The mainstream press seems to think that problem's been largely solved. But it remains, of course, a cultural disaster. You've written and spoken about this quite a bit. Where can people sign up to get involved?

A. Equality Now could always use support. Sadly, always.

Q. On a lighter note: Han or Luke?

A. Admiral Akbar, loser.

Q. Some fans have already launched a campaign to save Dollhouse from fickle network programmers who cancel everything that doesn't have enough fart jokes. Other fans see these organizers as casting a desperate light on Dollhouse since it hasn't even aired yet. Do you have a stand?

A. I love the effort, but do think it tends to put us in the cheap seats.

Q. Battlestar Galactica's Blonde Tomboy Space Girl (AKA Starbuck) is so clearly Wheadonian with her hot, hot fighting abilities and messianic visions... The BSG writers love you. When are you doing a cameo?

A. When Ron Moore stops admiring his shiny mane long enough to realize Starbuck could never love Lee as she would love pasty me.

Q. Quick! Best episode of The Odd Couple ever.

A. The last. No wait! The one in the middle.

Q. No matter where in the world you live nowadays, the monkeys—especially the terrible, terrible spider monkeys—are encroaching with hateful motives. What do you intend to do about this?

A. Until you take Monkey into your heart, you will never be allowed into the Jungle of Heaven.

Why, it's 90210's Kelly Taylor. "Born to a cokehead mom and an absentee dad, Kelly, in no particular order, lost her virginity via date rape, ODed on diet pills, was badly burned in a house fire, joined a cult, dated a cokehead, became an addict, was single-white-femaled, miscarried, got shot by carjackers, developed amnesia, was sexually harassed by a member of the medical profession, was attacked and raped in an alley, eventually killed her rapist in revenge, and lived through dozens of other comparatively piddling traumas." And Kel's reaction to these unfortunate incidents was always meek acceptance.

An exception to the rule is Buffy, but as we all know, Buffy existed in a supernatural universe. The ladies of Lost are similarly kick ass, but again: they live in a fractured world, not one that is striving for realism. Are there female characters out there taking names who exist in semi-realistic settings? Glenn Close on Damages comes to mind; so does Mariska Hartigay on Law and Order SVU. What other characters are avoiding victimhood successfully (and no, hookers and doormats don't count).

Heigl Says No Thanks, Emmy, It's Undeserved [AP]
The Beautiful And The Damned: From Kelly Taylor To Meredith Grey, The Long-suffering Ladies Of Prime-time TV [Radar]

"DollhouseForums' trailblazing leader Nathan posted the following as a call to arms: "After seeing some of my favorite television shows get canceled in the past — as well as the 'save this show' campaigns that followed — I had the idea that a fan campaign BEFORE the show begins may be the best thing to do.'

"A Facebook fan page dedicated to the online campaign already has nearly 1,500 members.

"Some worry the efforts are overkill and will become a sort of self-fulfilling prophecy. At fan site Whedonesque, several commenters suggest that such pre-emptive campaigning will negatively affect the show.'There is a fine line to walk so that this won't be another obnoxious Whedon fan campaign that will piss people off and make them talk negatively about the show in advance. Please be careful,' writes TamaraC." [Wired via BoingBoing]

If I may... Um, Joss? Less leather pants on Eliza, more skirts this time around. Thank you.

• This one's got a Wiccanny goddess kind of sound to it, which I think is nifty.
• Only a boy would've made this one.
• Evanescence.
• OMG! Willow and Buffy in "Don't Speak."

Marsters' favorite movie: Apocalypse Now; Sarah Michelle Gellar’s is South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut. Emma (Anya) Caulfield’s is The Silence of the Lambs, and Seth (Oz) Green likes Raising Arizona. OMG! I freaking love Lambs! I could totally date her. Next, Seth hits on Amber Benson!

“'How about you?' he asks Benson, 'what do you like? Do you like movies? I like that dress. Wanna get out of here?'"

On-set hijinks? Hell yeah. "Green says he misses arriving at his trailer every morning to find that David Boreanaz had pooped in it. 'Left something in there for you, buddy,' Boreanaz would say." Then it gets sappy: "Whedon misses directing Gellar. Gellar misses the family, the cast and the crew. Being there when a crew member’s child won a karate contest, for instance."

Then it gets hot and fetishy! "[Michelle] Trachtenberg misses sneaking into Gellar’s trailer to pet her shoes."

I'm gonna pass out.