I'd never heard of him until the writer's strike when two of my kids found his web hit Dr. Horrible's Sing-along blog with Neal Patrick Harris starring as Dr. Horrible and Nathan Fillion as Captain Hammer. I watched it and though it was brilliant and very funny.
We then moved on to watch what was hailed as one of the best sci-fi series ever (all 11 or so episodes of it) Firefly, which also starred Nathan Fillion as Captain Mal Reynolds.
I just found out that Whedon has a new show out on Fox called Dollhouse. We started watching it Friday and it looks pretty interesting so far.
He did Buffy the Vampire Slayer which 2J is very fond of. I love Firefly of course and recently Talon and I saw the Dr. Horrible Sing-Along Blog (which was pretty awesome).
His stuff has some traits that I really like and are why I watch a lot of anime, like continuous plot that lasts for more than one episode and characters that drive the story rather than vice versa.
Heh, we're HUGH "Firefly" fans in our house!
BROWNCOATS!!