Five by Five
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shadowkatI managed to miss all the tv show memes going about, so here are my answers to two, one I sort of added myself.
List Five Favorite/Awesome Female TV Characters and Why you Love them
1. CJ Craig- from the West Wing. Tough as nails business woman, and press secterary to the President who in the last two seasons when his chief of staff ended up having a heart attack and finally leaving for a VP nod, she became the new Chief of Staff. CJ was tough without being the stereotypical bitch so often shown on television. She put work first, family second, but was loyal to a fault, and could go to head to head with any man in the room. Comfortable in their company. If CJ was on the presidential ballot, I'd vote for her.
2. Christina Yang from Grey's Anatomy. Christina has worked her butt off. She's not girly and proud of it. Has overcome dyslexia to become a crack surgeon. Was Doctor Burke's hands when he could not operate, but did not change for him. She doesn't clean. She doesn't cook. She puts surgery first and foremost. Yet when Meredith needs a friend, she's there. Christina doesn't make friends easily, but when she does - you know she'll do anything for you.
3. Sarah Connor - Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. A Mother Tiger, able to fight, and wickedly smart.
4. Kara Thrace - Starbuck - the troubled yet incredibly charismatic pilot with the million dollar smile. She's the female version of Han Solo and Malcolm Reynolds. Tough talking, hating authority, a bit nuts, yet desperately loyal. Not to mention the best pilot on the fleet.
5. Buffy Summers/President Roslyn (yes a tie for fifth) - both tough female leaders, who know they may die any moment, who must make tough choices that require others getting killed. Struggling with the guilt of not being able to save everyone, and what one must do to save the world.
Five Awesome/Favorite Minority Characters on TV
1. Christina Yang (see above)
2. Hiro (the time changer/traveler) and his friend Ando. (Heros)- the friendship won me over most of all, then the growth of Hiro, who gradually evolves from innocent/full of excitement, to world-weary cynic capable of doing horrible things.
3. Sayid Jarra (Lost) - cool, resolved, and complex
4. Bailey (Grey's Anatomy) - the head resident, who juggles everything including being a mom with as much grace as possible.
5. Sharon/Athena/Boomer - BattleStar Galatica- the cylon who thought she was human and fell in love with a human.
List Five Favorite/Awesome Female TV Characters and Why you Love them
1. CJ Craig- from the West Wing. Tough as nails business woman, and press secterary to the President who in the last two seasons when his chief of staff ended up having a heart attack and finally leaving for a VP nod, she became the new Chief of Staff. CJ was tough without being the stereotypical bitch so often shown on television. She put work first, family second, but was loyal to a fault, and could go to head to head with any man in the room. Comfortable in their company. If CJ was on the presidential ballot, I'd vote for her.
2. Christina Yang from Grey's Anatomy. Christina has worked her butt off. She's not girly and proud of it. Has overcome dyslexia to become a crack surgeon. Was Doctor Burke's hands when he could not operate, but did not change for him. She doesn't clean. She doesn't cook. She puts surgery first and foremost. Yet when Meredith needs a friend, she's there. Christina doesn't make friends easily, but when she does - you know she'll do anything for you.
3. Sarah Connor - Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. A Mother Tiger, able to fight, and wickedly smart.
4. Kara Thrace - Starbuck - the troubled yet incredibly charismatic pilot with the million dollar smile. She's the female version of Han Solo and Malcolm Reynolds. Tough talking, hating authority, a bit nuts, yet desperately loyal. Not to mention the best pilot on the fleet.
5. Buffy Summers/President Roslyn (yes a tie for fifth) - both tough female leaders, who know they may die any moment, who must make tough choices that require others getting killed. Struggling with the guilt of not being able to save everyone, and what one must do to save the world.
Five Awesome/Favorite Minority Characters on TV
1. Christina Yang (see above)
2. Hiro (the time changer/traveler) and his friend Ando. (Heros)- the friendship won me over most of all, then the growth of Hiro, who gradually evolves from innocent/full of excitement, to world-weary cynic capable of doing horrible things.
3. Sayid Jarra (Lost) - cool, resolved, and complex
4. Bailey (Grey's Anatomy) - the head resident, who juggles everything including being a mom with as much grace as possible.
5. Sharon/Athena/Boomer - BattleStar Galatica- the cylon who thought she was human and fell in love with a human.
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Date: 2008-05-25 10:06 pm (UTC)It is a commentary on American TV that it is hard to come up with more than 5 good examples (I'm not sure if I could come up with five you didn't mention!).
Of course in old shows we had:
Farscape's Aeryn Sun
Voyager's 7 of 9
Babylon 5's Susan Ivanova
Mary Tyler Moore Show's Rhoda Morgenstern
maybe Murphy Brown....
but for the most part I haven't admired the ones like Elaine on Seinfeld who were just kind of annoying most of the time.
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Date: 2008-05-26 11:57 pm (UTC)Here's some more:
Bree Hodgson from Desperate Housewives
Rachel Lee Griffiths Sarah from Brothers & Sisters
Sally Field's matriach from Brother's and Sisters
Veronica Mars
Claire on Heroes
Shirley on Boston Legal
Patricia Arguette's character on Medium
Sun on Lost
Juliette on Lost
Minorities not mentioned above:
Hurley or Hugo on Lost
Jin on Lost
Mohindre on Heroes
Chris on Everybody Hates Chris
Martha Jones on Doctor Who and Torchwood
Cheif on Grey's Anatomy
Burke from Grey's Anatomy (since gone, dang it.)
But it is telling that I've almost used up the list. So many women are portrayed as flighty or silly or annoying - like Sam on Samatha Who or Susan on Desperate or Elaine on Seinfield.
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Date: 2008-05-27 12:26 am (UTC)Donna on Doctor Who (I like her a lot more than Rose or Martha)
Sarah Jane on Sarah Jane's Adventures
Gwen on Torchwood (more on the 1st season than the 2nd)
Rosemary AND Thyme (mystery series w/middle-aged women gardeners as our heroine/detectives)
And I liked all the women on Firefly (with Zoe being my clear favorite)
I'm going to be interested to see what develops with the women in Dollhouse!