Like a thief in the night

[in_the_blue]

Sometimes, lostinapapercup is so smart that I have to steal things from her. Here:

Inspired by the coming lovefest for fictional females over at halfamoon, here's a game: name a canon you know I know, and I'll tell you (in no particular order) my three favorite females and why. And then I'll name a canon for you, because I'm just as curious as I am eager to share.

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[ashavah]

LOST.

[in-the-blue.livejournal.com]

Oh, choose the difficult one! There are so many great female characters.

- Nadia Abed Jazeem. Her strength fascinates me and I don't see her as complementing Sayid so much as I see him complementing her. When I rewatched the end of last season the other night, her death scene absolutely broke my heart. She's long been one of my favorite characters on Lost, male or female.

- Helen Norwood. Not only was she a voice of reason in Locke's fucked-up life, but Katey Sagal. I mean, seriously, the line between actress and character blurred right away for me the moment I heard her voice. She didn't get to be in there a whole lot but brother, did she make an impact in every scene she got to inhabit. If Locke had just listened to her... yeah.

- Kate Austen. I know it's cool to hate on Ms. Austen, but I happen to think she's a fantastic character and like all the main characters, flawed but in the most human of ways. She's strong, independent, and determined and doesn't let other people define who she is or what she can or can't do (and might be one of the few people never to have actually used that don't tell me what I can't do line, because she doesn't have to). Has she made mistakes? You bet, but she knows it and that makes her that much more fascinating.

I get to have runners-up here. In no particular order and without reasons given: Sun Kwon, Cassidy Phillips, Alex Rousseau, and Carmen Reyes.

For you: Torchwood.

[ashavah]

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.