When I was a little girl and Doctor Who was first airing in the US (we're talking some 30 years back), I loved Sarah Jane Smith. She was a journalist - a writer! - and she had my given name to boot (yes, I'm a Sarah Jane on paper). Then she did an episode of the new show, and then came THE SARAH JANE ADVENTURES. An action series for kids where the head badass is a woman past fifty! I will love RTD forever for that.
1. JJ Jarreau (Criminal Minds) 2. Colette Valois (Pan Am) 3. Luna Lovegood (Harry Potter) 4. Hermione Granger (Harry Potter) 5. Anne Shirley (Anne of Green Gables) 6. Snow White/Mary Margaret Blanchard (Once Upon a Time) 7. Nikita Mears (Nikita--CW) 8. Rapunzel (Tangled) 9. Buffy Summers (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) 10. Drucilla (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) 11. Georgia "George" Lass (Dead Like Me) 12. Dorothy Gale (The Wizard of Oz)
I actually haven't heard that song before, but I love it now and that vid was very well-done. <3
Watching that vid makes me realize...as much as I liked Ned Stark, he was just...so out of touch with his daughters. Ofc he loved them, but I mean, giving Sansa that doll when she's grown out of them, and then telling Arya she's going to marry and bear sons who will do great things, as if that's remotely what she wants in life...! SMH, Ned.
Ooh, thanks for the link to metafandom! I enjoy reading meta a lot, so yay! New source for me! And that's a very interesting take on the Mary Sue angle. It reminds me tangentially of House discussing the death penalty and telling Foreman about how most of those executed are black guys, and Foreman goes (paraphrased), 'It doesn't mean we need to take away the death penalty, it means we need to start killing more white guys.' LMAO. But yeah, so basically, just 'coz immature writers create godawful female characters doesn't mean that everyone should stick to writing men as the protagonists with super
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When I was a little girl and Doctor Who was first airing in the US (we're talking some 30 years back), I loved Sarah Jane Smith. She was a journalist - a writer! - and she had my given name to boot (yes, I'm a Sarah Jane on paper). Then she did an episode of the new show, and then came THE SARAH JANE ADVENTURES. An action series for kids where the head badass is a woman past fifty! I will love RTD forever for that.
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Any of Jane Austen's heroines, though I have a real fondness for Elizabeth Bennet.
Laura Ingalls Little House on the Prairie (all her books are special to me)
Cameron House (especially Seasons 2-6)
Emma Once Upon a Time
Karen SMASH
Amy Farrah Fowler The Big Bang Theory
Temperance Brennan and Angela HodginsBones
Lisbon and Van Pelt The Mentalist
Kate Beckett Castle
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I like Elizabeth Bennett too. And of course the Jennifer Morrison characters. :) I'm not familiar with the others.
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2. Colette Valois (Pan Am)
3. Luna Lovegood (Harry Potter)
4. Hermione Granger (Harry Potter)
5. Anne Shirley (Anne of Green Gables)
6. Snow White/Mary Margaret Blanchard (Once Upon a Time)
7. Nikita Mears (Nikita--CW)
8. Rapunzel (Tangled)
9. Buffy Summers (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
10. Drucilla (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
11. Georgia "George" Lass (Dead Like Me)
12. Dorothy Gale (The Wizard of Oz)
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Watching that vid makes me realize...as much as I liked Ned Stark, he was just...so out of touch with his daughters. Ofc he loved them, but I mean, giving Sansa that doll when she's grown out of them, and then telling Arya she's going to marry and bear sons who will do great things, as if that's remotely what she wants in life...! SMH, Ned.
Ooh, thanks for the link to metafandom! I enjoy reading meta a lot, so yay! New source for me! And that's a very interesting take on the Mary Sue angle. It reminds me tangentially of House discussing the death penalty and telling Foreman about how most of those executed are black guys, and Foreman goes (paraphrased), 'It doesn't mean we need to take away the death penalty, it means we need to start killing more white guys.' LMAO. But yeah, so basically, just 'coz immature writers create godawful female characters doesn't mean that everyone should stick to writing men as the protagonists with super ( ... )
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