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rionaleonhart) wrote2009-05-12 08:04 am
rionaleonhart) wrote2009-05-12 08:04 am
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We Think The Women Should Be Allowed To Fight.
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misscam posted an entry about the hard time female characters get in fandom and invited everyone to talk about female characters they loved in the comments. I thought that this was a lovely idea, and so I am completely stealing it. Because I do tend to talk about male characters far more than I talk about female ones, and that's not right. There are plenty of female characters I adore. Here are some of them.
I love the women of House. I love poor adorable Cameron and her tendency to become attached to patients and her emotional masochism. I love longsuffering, sarcastic, awesome Cuddy. I LOVE THE BUDDY COP DUO THAT CAMERON AND CUDDY HAVE FORMED IN MY MIND. I love Thirteen when she is vulnerable and when she has that ridiculously cute grin or that little smile and when she is rolling her eyes and when she is going 'THESE ARE NOT THE CORRECT DRUGS; THEY ARE INSUFFICIENTLY CRAP' and when she is saying words and when she is on the screen.
I love Donna of Doctor Who. I love that she could so easily have been a shallow, exaggerated comic character, but that the writers instead took her and made something wonderful. I love that she made me emotionally invested in Doctor Who again; I cared about what happened to her, which was something I hadn't felt about any Doctor Who character (with the possible exception of the Master) since Eccleston's regeneration. I love that she will stand up to the Doctor, and she won't take 'I AM A TIME LORD AND THEREFORE MORALLY SUPERIOR' for an answer. She is compassionate and awesome and ridiculous and amazing and I adore her.
I love Toph of Avatar. She is mocking and hilarious and kicks arse, and the way she uses Earthbending to see is utterly fascinating. Katara, meanwhile, is lovely and awesome in equal measures, and Ty Lee is just the most adorable antagonist ever, bless her. I also love the fact that Toph and Katara both have very real flaws, and that these flaws in no way stop them from being wonderful.
I love Annie of Being Human, because she is adorable. I love her inept attempts to conform to the cultural image of what a ghost should be like. I love that she wants to be in Hufflepuff and make glittery cards. I love the little things she does for Owen, and her little smile when he notices them (even if he does not deserve them. Why don't you adorably haunt my house, Annie?). I love her friendship with Mitchell and George, and the ridiculous amounts of chemistry they all have.
These certainly aren't all the female characters I love (Carla, Elliot, Tosh, Sharpay, Fran, Celes, Selphie, Quistis, Freya, Yuna, Rikku, Lulu, Paine, Larxene, Ruby, Bela, Pamela, Ellen, Gwen, Morgana, Rose Tyler, Alex Drake, Samantha Carter, Luna Lovegood, Sara Tancredi...), but it's a start. Who are your favourite female characters? I'd love to hear about why you love them in the comments.
misscam posted an entry about the hard time female characters get in fandom and invited everyone to talk about female characters they loved in the comments. I thought that this was a lovely idea, and so I am completely stealing it. Because I do tend to talk about male characters far more than I talk about female ones, and that's not right. There are plenty of female characters I adore. Here are some of them.I love the women of House. I love poor adorable Cameron and her tendency to become attached to patients and her emotional masochism. I love longsuffering, sarcastic, awesome Cuddy. I LOVE THE BUDDY COP DUO THAT CAMERON AND CUDDY HAVE FORMED IN MY MIND. I love Thirteen when she is vulnerable and when she has that ridiculously cute grin or that little smile and when she is rolling her eyes and when she is going 'THESE ARE NOT THE CORRECT DRUGS; THEY ARE INSUFFICIENTLY CRAP' and when she is saying words and when she is on the screen.
I love Donna of Doctor Who. I love that she could so easily have been a shallow, exaggerated comic character, but that the writers instead took her and made something wonderful. I love that she made me emotionally invested in Doctor Who again; I cared about what happened to her, which was something I hadn't felt about any Doctor Who character (with the possible exception of the Master) since Eccleston's regeneration. I love that she will stand up to the Doctor, and she won't take 'I AM A TIME LORD AND THEREFORE MORALLY SUPERIOR' for an answer. She is compassionate and awesome and ridiculous and amazing and I adore her.
I love Toph of Avatar. She is mocking and hilarious and kicks arse, and the way she uses Earthbending to see is utterly fascinating. Katara, meanwhile, is lovely and awesome in equal measures, and Ty Lee is just the most adorable antagonist ever, bless her. I also love the fact that Toph and Katara both have very real flaws, and that these flaws in no way stop them from being wonderful.
I love Annie of Being Human, because she is adorable. I love her inept attempts to conform to the cultural image of what a ghost should be like. I love that she wants to be in Hufflepuff and make glittery cards. I love the little things she does for Owen, and her little smile when he notices them (even if he does not deserve them. Why don't you adorably haunt my house, Annie?). I love her friendship with Mitchell and George, and the ridiculous amounts of chemistry they all have.
These certainly aren't all the female characters I love (Carla, Elliot, Tosh, Sharpay, Fran, Celes, Selphie, Quistis, Freya, Yuna, Rikku, Lulu, Paine, Larxene, Ruby, Bela, Pamela, Ellen, Gwen, Morgana, Rose Tyler, Alex Drake, Samantha Carter, Luna Lovegood, Sara Tancredi...), but it's a start. Who are your favourite female characters? I'd love to hear about why you love them in the comments.
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Vala Mal Doran was pretty much the sole reason I watched season 9 and 10 of Stargate SG-1. I mean, the main baddies were gone, and the new baddies were just dreadful, but I decided to give the new team a go and it just didn't work for me. But hey! I read Vala was coming back! And Vala makes everything better! So, I stuck with it, and I would not if I hadn't known Vala was coming back. In her first appearance she beat the crap out of Daniel Jackson, and was awesome and snarky during it, and Daniel only won because he cheated.
Now that I think about it, I also fell in love with Jo on Supernatural because she punched Dean in the face and then turned a gun on him during her first appearance. And then her MOTHER came in with a gun pointed at Sam. I guess I just like women who get the upperhand on men in a fight. And Bela was awesomely snarky and her background story was WAY TOO RUSHED. And Ellen! Ellen is awesome too. And probably some one-off women on SPN too. Oh, oh, in the vampire shapeshifter episode the woman was awesome because she fought the shapeshifter off with pepperspray and was the one who killed him! That was cool.
Annie is indeed COMPLETELY ADORABLE, but just wait until Nina plays a bigger role, because Nina is awesome too, and I won't say too much about Nina, because that'd be spoilers. But she's pretty damn awesome.
Fiona from Burn Notice is awesome because she's a tiny women whose first idea when it comes to dealing with a problem is to blow shit up. She can kick people's asses but also has the whole vulnerable looking-for-love thing going on. And Madelyn, the main hero's mother is also made of win, because she's not afraid of anything and is very self-sufficient :D.
Katara and Toph both have moments that make me go OMG JUST SHUT UP but then they also have moments of awesome, so on the whole I think they're very nicely balanced characters with their good sides and bad sides.
Bookwise, I think Terry Pratchett has some excellent female characters. All the Lancre witches are great, and Angua! She's a werewolf and part of the city watch and in a relationship and just brilliant! And there's Cheery Littlebottom, who was one of the first Dwarves to admit that she's female!
And David Eddings, though his writing is very cliched and filled with tropes has a great Motherly Figure in Polgara, and there's the Fiesty Redheaded Princess Ce'nedra, who went and gathered an ARMY when she was 16 to help her husband out, and then there's Liselle, who is a sneaky spy who goes after what she wants all the time.
George R.R. Martin also has some very nifty female characters, and all sorts of them. There's bad women and good women and older women and younger women and daughters and mothers and queens and princesses and non-royal women and generally, quite a lot of them kick ass.
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