Heh, this is hard because I have such a love/hate relationship with the major female character, which you've heard me talk about before. My favourites would have to be:
Toshiko Sato: I always have a soft spot for the quiet, unassuming, and brilliant characters, and that's Tosh to a tee. She's not a warrior, but she's brilliant in her own way, and I love her for that. Like so many other characters, her story is a tragedy of lost love, but it's also a story of how she got another chance to see the brilliance of what's out there in the world and truly live up to her potential.
Estelle Cole: She's only in one episode, but she really managed to captivate me in that one episode. Estelle is sweet and innocent and idealistic, and that proves to be her downfall. But she's also a breath of fresh air because after all she's seen and the heartbreak she's endured, she hasn't become cynical. She manages to have an air of tragedy and to have gone through a lot of pain in her life and yet still believe in magic and goodness.
Alice Carter: Such a conflicted character, and like so many of my favourites, strong as steel with a core of vulnerability she won't let anybody see. She wants to love her father and she wants to hate him, so she doesn't know what to think. She wants so desperately to distance herself from his crazy world and just be a normal suburban mother, but you don't want to mess with her. Her story is such a tragedy (and a part of Jack's tragedy, too, and I love it and hate it for that), because she loses everything dear to her through no fault of her own, her only sin being to trust that Jack could save the world.
Honourable mentions: Martha Jones (who I would have mentioned except she's primarily a Doctor Who character), Rhiannon Davies. And Gwen in her awesome moments.
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Date: 2010-01-31 03:28 am (UTC)Toshiko Sato: I always have a soft spot for the quiet, unassuming, and brilliant characters, and that's Tosh to a tee. She's not a warrior, but she's brilliant in her own way, and I love her for that. Like so many other characters, her story is a tragedy of lost love, but it's also a story of how she got another chance to see the brilliance of what's out there in the world and truly live up to her potential.
Estelle Cole: She's only in one episode, but she really managed to captivate me in that one episode. Estelle is sweet and innocent and idealistic, and that proves to be her downfall. But she's also a breath of fresh air because after all she's seen and the heartbreak she's endured, she hasn't become cynical. She manages to have an air of tragedy and to have gone through a lot of pain in her life and yet still believe in magic and goodness.
Alice Carter: Such a conflicted character, and like so many of my favourites, strong as steel with a core of vulnerability she won't let anybody see. She wants to love her father and she wants to hate him, so she doesn't know what to think. She wants so desperately to distance herself from his crazy world and just be a normal suburban mother, but you don't want to mess with her. Her story is such a tragedy (and a part of Jack's tragedy, too, and I love it and hate it for that), because she loses everything dear to her through no fault of her own, her only sin being to trust that Jack could save the world.
Honourable mentions: Martha Jones (who I would have mentioned except she's primarily a Doctor Who character), Rhiannon Davies. And Gwen in her awesome moments.