Cordelia Naismith/Vorkosigan, from Lois McMaster Bujold's sci-fi novels. She's a space captain, she's loving and motherly, she's violent, she's incredibly smart and empathetic. And she doesn't just embody righteousness, she actively works to make things better for the people around her...
Also, I've just finished watching the first series of Deadwood on DVD, so I want to give a big shout out to all the women in that, for different reasons. Trixie, Alma, Jody, Jewel, Calamity Jane, even the mostly-mute Norwegian girl. They're not all sympathetic, and they're certainly not all people you'd want to be, but they're all so interesting.
Special mention goes to Calamity Jane, who is probably the first female TV character for a very long time who if you told me her looks are not important to her, I would believe you. She's such a breath of fresh air when it comes to female TV characters. She is drunken and dirty and violent, and screwed up, and still a good person, and she makes her own way in the world in a way that no other woman anywhere in the show has managed.
One more! OK, two more. Captain Roland and her daughter Emily, from the Temeraire novels. They're maybe not that unloved, but they are certainly completely awesome.
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Date: 2008-05-20 08:32 pm (UTC)Also, I've just finished watching the first series of Deadwood on DVD, so I want to give a big shout out to all the women in that, for different reasons. Trixie, Alma, Jody, Jewel, Calamity Jane, even the mostly-mute Norwegian girl. They're not all sympathetic, and they're certainly not all people you'd want to be, but they're all so interesting.
Special mention goes to Calamity Jane, who is probably the first female TV character for a very long time who if you told me her looks are not important to her, I would believe you. She's such a breath of fresh air when it comes to female TV characters. She is drunken and dirty and violent, and screwed up, and still a good person, and she makes her own way in the world in a way that no other woman anywhere in the show has managed.
One more! OK, two more. Captain Roland and her daughter Emily, from the Temeraire novels. They're maybe not that unloved, but they are certainly completely awesome.