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othercat did this and I couldn't resist. It took my mind off of work for most of the day, which was a good thing. :)
List your favourite 10 female characters of any fandom and why you like these girls/women.
1. Sarah Connor (Terminator) -- Sarah is probably my favorite character ever, male or female. I mean, okay, apocalyptic future, which helps with me. But it's the whole concept of someone who suddenly finds out that their whole life is just not what they expected at ALL. It's bigger than anything they could have possibly imagined, and not in a good way at all. How many people could find out about something like Judgment Day and the future of their son and NOT crack up?
And yes, she does crack up. But she also makes damn sure that both she and John are prepared with all of the knowledge they'll need to survive. She's tough and wiry and totally prepared for the worst at all times, and at the same time, she's just emotionally and mentally fucked up beyond all human comprehension. And who can really blame her?
Then there's her relationship with Kyle. My God, that is so romantic and so awfully tragic all at the same time. I get Romeo and Juliet during the pre-apocalypse. Yay, me and my fandom. :)
2. Lou (Jake 2.0) -- You know, I swear to God, with every fandom I get into, I can always find a female character I identify with, and it's inevitably not the chick who's my favorite. I'm more like Diane than I am like Lou, but Lou is another of the butt-kicking chicks that I adore. Not only is she strong and well-trained, but she's also highly intelligent and a great leader. Plus, she beat up Jake while training him in that one episode, and I love the boy, but HEE.
3. Boo (Monsters Inc.) -- Well, really. She's just so darn cute. Not only that, but she really does look a hell of a lot like my cousin Lauren when she was little.
4. Zoe (Firefly) -- Again with the favorite female character being completely different from the character who's most like me. Kaylee's more like me, but I love Zoe. I mean, she has excellent taste in men (yay for Wash), she's fiercely loyal, and she's also that tough chick I like.
5. George Lass (Dead Like Me) -- Aaaaaaand then there's George. *g* I seriously think the reason I like her isn't because she's like me, but because she IS me. I mean, I might be a bit perkier, but we basically behave the same way, make the same facial expressions, and frighteningly enough, share the same mother.
6. Cordelia Chase (Buffy/Angel) -- I've always kind of wavered between Willow, Faith, and Cordy, but these days, I'd say Cordy. She just had such a great character arc. Take a look at the Cordy of season one of Buffy and the Cordy towards the end in L.A. and you can see they're two entirely different people, but it's easy to recognize they're the same person. Aside from her appalling taste in sexual partners, there was always something to like about Cordelia for me.
7. Shannon (Lost) -- Oh, come on. I wrote a defense for her, for crying out loud. ;) But in all seriousness, I like Shannon for the same reasons I'm starting to think we're supposed to hate her -- because she's bitchy, spoiled, and pessimistic. But she's also made a change even in the short amount of time they've been on the island, and she behaves the way normal people would in that situation. (As opposed to Kate, who ... I'm sorry, but NO.) I was worrying that they were making her a little too nice a little too fast, but if the speculation for the next episode based on the promo analysis is correct, I am so going to become the biggest Shannon lover on the planetother than poor, pretty, dead Boone.
8. Jubilee (X-Men) -- Okay, if George from Dead Like Me is what I'm like when I'm down and pissy, Jubilee is what I'm like when I'm all spazzy and bouncing around the place on a sugar rush. She's my favorite female member of the X-Men and always has been mostly for the same reason that Bobby's my favorite -- because both of them feel to me like the most normal, average goofballs in the place having to put up with these crazy, off-the-wall weirdos. They always gave me the impression that if there was an X-Men yearbook, they'd be named Most Likely To Be Perfectly Happy and Contented If They Lost Their Powers One Day.
9. Bree Van De Kamp (Desperate Housewives) -- Here's my thing with Bree. If I knew her in real life, I would HATE her. Not because of the conservative Republican thing, although God knows that would grate, but because she's just so freaking perfect. Hair always coiffed, cookies always baked from scratch, clothes always neatly pressed. Who would want to be anywhere near that?
The thing is, watching it on television is another matter entirely. It's the kind of situation where you can tell someone's going along a path that might not be harmful in any other family, if it weren't for the fact that person involved is dealing with a bunch of people so vastly different from what she expects. She means well, but she's got a husband with weird sexual tendencies (well, compared to what she knows and understands) and a son who's a freaking psycho. Poor Bree (and her fresh-baked cookies and waxed floors and cleanly dusted home).
10. Olivia Benson (Law and Order: SVU) -- It's like I keep saying, SVU has all the best cops, and Olivia's no exception. I do love Stabler, but I think Olivia's my favorite cop of all of the L&O series. I do worry that a lot of it is a hearty girlcrush, though, because Mariska Hartigay is so very, very pretty.
othercat did this and I couldn't resist. It took my mind off of work for most of the day, which was a good thing. :)List your favourite 10 female characters of any fandom and why you like these girls/women.
1. Sarah Connor (Terminator) -- Sarah is probably my favorite character ever, male or female. I mean, okay, apocalyptic future, which helps with me. But it's the whole concept of someone who suddenly finds out that their whole life is just not what they expected at ALL. It's bigger than anything they could have possibly imagined, and not in a good way at all. How many people could find out about something like Judgment Day and the future of their son and NOT crack up?
And yes, she does crack up. But she also makes damn sure that both she and John are prepared with all of the knowledge they'll need to survive. She's tough and wiry and totally prepared for the worst at all times, and at the same time, she's just emotionally and mentally fucked up beyond all human comprehension. And who can really blame her?
Then there's her relationship with Kyle. My God, that is so romantic and so awfully tragic all at the same time. I get Romeo and Juliet during the pre-apocalypse. Yay, me and my fandom. :)
2. Lou (Jake 2.0) -- You know, I swear to God, with every fandom I get into, I can always find a female character I identify with, and it's inevitably not the chick who's my favorite. I'm more like Diane than I am like Lou, but Lou is another of the butt-kicking chicks that I adore. Not only is she strong and well-trained, but she's also highly intelligent and a great leader. Plus, she beat up Jake while training him in that one episode, and I love the boy, but HEE.
3. Boo (Monsters Inc.) -- Well, really. She's just so darn cute. Not only that, but she really does look a hell of a lot like my cousin Lauren when she was little.
4. Zoe (Firefly) -- Again with the favorite female character being completely different from the character who's most like me. Kaylee's more like me, but I love Zoe. I mean, she has excellent taste in men (yay for Wash), she's fiercely loyal, and she's also that tough chick I like.
5. George Lass (Dead Like Me) -- Aaaaaaand then there's George. *g* I seriously think the reason I like her isn't because she's like me, but because she IS me. I mean, I might be a bit perkier, but we basically behave the same way, make the same facial expressions, and frighteningly enough, share the same mother.
6. Cordelia Chase (Buffy/Angel) -- I've always kind of wavered between Willow, Faith, and Cordy, but these days, I'd say Cordy. She just had such a great character arc. Take a look at the Cordy of season one of Buffy and the Cordy towards the end in L.A. and you can see they're two entirely different people, but it's easy to recognize they're the same person. Aside from her appalling taste in sexual partners, there was always something to like about Cordelia for me.
7. Shannon (Lost) -- Oh, come on. I wrote a defense for her, for crying out loud. ;) But in all seriousness, I like Shannon for the same reasons I'm starting to think we're supposed to hate her -- because she's bitchy, spoiled, and pessimistic. But she's also made a change even in the short amount of time they've been on the island, and she behaves the way normal people would in that situation. (As opposed to Kate, who ... I'm sorry, but NO.) I was worrying that they were making her a little too nice a little too fast, but if the speculation for the next episode based on the promo analysis is correct, I am so going to become the biggest Shannon lover on the planet
8. Jubilee (X-Men) -- Okay, if George from Dead Like Me is what I'm like when I'm down and pissy, Jubilee is what I'm like when I'm all spazzy and bouncing around the place on a sugar rush. She's my favorite female member of the X-Men and always has been mostly for the same reason that Bobby's my favorite -- because both of them feel to me like the most normal, average goofballs in the place having to put up with these crazy, off-the-wall weirdos. They always gave me the impression that if there was an X-Men yearbook, they'd be named Most Likely To Be Perfectly Happy and Contented If They Lost Their Powers One Day.
9. Bree Van De Kamp (Desperate Housewives) -- Here's my thing with Bree. If I knew her in real life, I would HATE her. Not because of the conservative Republican thing, although God knows that would grate, but because she's just so freaking perfect. Hair always coiffed, cookies always baked from scratch, clothes always neatly pressed. Who would want to be anywhere near that?
The thing is, watching it on television is another matter entirely. It's the kind of situation where you can tell someone's going along a path that might not be harmful in any other family, if it weren't for the fact that person involved is dealing with a bunch of people so vastly different from what she expects. She means well, but she's got a husband with weird sexual tendencies (well, compared to what she knows and understands) and a son who's a freaking psycho. Poor Bree (and her fresh-baked cookies and waxed floors and cleanly dusted home).
10. Olivia Benson (Law and Order: SVU) -- It's like I keep saying, SVU has all the best cops, and Olivia's no exception. I do love Stabler, but I think Olivia's my favorite cop of all of the L&O series. I do worry that a lot of it is a hearty girlcrush, though, because Mariska Hartigay is so very, very pretty.
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Date: 2005-04-29 11:53 pm (UTC)Especially right there with you on Shannon(!!!), Zoe, and Jubilee. And I have no problem whatsoever embracing my Olivia girlcrush. It's a massive girlcrush. An "I squeal incoherently and stop whatever I'm doing when she's onscreen" girlcrush. And make it double if Alex is onscreen with her, 'cos she's absolutely gorgeous, too. And everybody knows they were doin' it. *peers around shiftily*
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Date: 2005-04-30 12:49 am (UTC)THANK you. *satisfied nod*
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Date: 2005-04-30 01:29 am (UTC)(Her mother was Ava Gardner, yanno. That's where she gets it.)
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Date: 2005-04-30 01:38 am (UTC)But you're right. Hubba hubba either way.
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