"The idea was, let's have a feminist role model for kids," said Joss Whedon, creator and writer of the popular television ghoul series, Buffy the Vampire Slayer. "What's interesting is you end up subverting that," Whedon continued in an interview with Entertainment Weekly. "If she's just an ironclad hero--'I am woman, hear me constantly roar'--it gets dull. Finding the weakness and the vanity and the foibles makes it fun. . . . From the beginning, I was interested in showing a woman who was [take-charge] and men who not only didn't have a problem with that but were kind of attracted to it." Subverting the model is what Whedon's "Buffy" saga is all about. Far from being the terrified female victim found in most horror flicks and terror tales, Buffy most definitely wears boots and knows how to use them, dispatching all manner of critters fair and foul who crop up...