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selenak1.) Gwen (Guinevere) from Merlin. I've raved about her before, and will happily do so again. My favourite depiction of Guinevere by far, and may I add a mini-rant? I've seen hopes she'll get a sword and fight scenes with same next season. This annoys me. Because much as I love female warriors, THIS ISN'T THE ONLY WAY A FEMALE CHARACTER CAN BE INTERESTING AND STRONG. In fact, Gwen is a beautiful example of how you can make being observant, kind, smart and having the guts to stand up against both tyrant kings and invading sorceresses when they have all power and swords in the world and you don't just as interesting. What Gwen is, and has been increasingly so, especially in the last season, is a queeen-in-training. And as someone who loved Laura Roslin over at BSG, who in four seasons maybe had a gun in her hand twice or so, was softly spoken and yet managed to be the scariest person of the ensemble, let me tell, that really doesn't need to be justified by sword-fighting scenes.
2.) Martha Jones from Doctor Who. She saves the world. A lot. Also, she's a Harry Potter geek who puts having watched submarine movies to good use. How can you not love her?
3.) Maria LaGuerta from Dexter. The show never did as right by her again as it did in season 1 (meaning in later seasons she gets more and more soap opera and less and less actual police stuff to do), but I still love her for being a really interesting character, both capable of behaving appallingly and of behaving awesomely. Hooray for shades of grey! (That she's also 40-ish and everyone's boss still makes her an exception rather than a rule, re: female characters, sad to say.)
4.) Guinan from Star Trek: The Next Generation. I was wondering whether or not Guinan counts, since she's an alien, but she's played by a black actress without any make-up to make her look differently (though she does wear some awesome hats), so I say she does. Barkeeper extraordinaire, capable of guiding starship captains through moral dilemmas and being vicious with a fork to all-powerful entitities in temporarily human shape (and I do mean vicious!), fond of travelling and of whimsy, first regarded as an excentric black sheep by her people and then one of the few survivors of a genocide that wiped them out, Guinan always had suspicious resemblances to certain Time Lords before I knew those, and yet is entirely her own c haracter. And did I mention her hats are something else again?
5.) Nyota Uhura from Star Trek (both TOS and Reboot versions). Smart, competent and beautiful she's in either version, and also entirely capable of handling herself against unwanted advances, even if they're from temporarily inebriated and not themselves shipmates (the exchange with Sulu from The Naked Time - "Come here, fair maiden" - "Sorry, neither!" remains classic). TOS Uhura is the only one on the Enterprise getting away with teasing Spock and making him smile at this (check out the recreation room scene in Charlie X if you don't believe me). Reboot Uhura chews him out when he's not giving her her due as a communication expert but is entirely supportive and there for him when the worst catastrophe of his life happens, and her ability to brush off unwanted advances hasn't diminished, either (ask Kirk after the bar scene). In short, I love her.
2.) Martha Jones from Doctor Who. She saves the world. A lot. Also, she's a Harry Potter geek who puts having watched submarine movies to good use. How can you not love her?
3.) Maria LaGuerta from Dexter. The show never did as right by her again as it did in season 1 (meaning in later seasons she gets more and more soap opera and less and less actual police stuff to do), but I still love her for being a really interesting character, both capable of behaving appallingly and of behaving awesomely. Hooray for shades of grey! (That she's also 40-ish and everyone's boss still makes her an exception rather than a rule, re: female characters, sad to say.)
4.) Guinan from Star Trek: The Next Generation. I was wondering whether or not Guinan counts, since she's an alien, but she's played by a black actress without any make-up to make her look differently (though she does wear some awesome hats), so I say she does. Barkeeper extraordinaire, capable of guiding starship captains through moral dilemmas and being vicious with a fork to all-powerful entitities in temporarily human shape (and I do mean vicious!), fond of travelling and of whimsy, first regarded as an excentric black sheep by her people and then one of the few survivors of a genocide that wiped them out, Guinan always had suspicious resemblances to certain Time Lords before I knew those, and yet is entirely her own c haracter. And did I mention her hats are something else again?
5.) Nyota Uhura from Star Trek (both TOS and Reboot versions). Smart, competent and beautiful she's in either version, and also entirely capable of handling herself against unwanted advances, even if they're from temporarily inebriated and not themselves shipmates (the exchange with Sulu from The Naked Time - "Come here, fair maiden" - "Sorry, neither!" remains classic). TOS Uhura is the only one on the Enterprise getting away with teasing Spock and making him smile at this (check out the recreation room scene in Charlie X if you don't believe me). Reboot Uhura chews him out when he's not giving her her due as a communication expert but is entirely supportive and there for him when the worst catastrophe of his life happens, and her ability to brush off unwanted advances hasn't diminished, either (ask Kirk after the bar scene). In short, I love her.
