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[skygiants]

Am I ever going to pass up an opportunity to babble extensively about AWESOME LADIES? The answer is: no, I most certainly am not!

Therefore, stolen from in_the_blue and a few other people by now: 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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[aberration]

BSG!

[skygiants]

Tory Foster: Oh, like you didn't know that was coming. *laughing* Tory is my ultimate "fuck you, she's awesome!" character. She got a raw deal, and I love her extra because no one else will; she was awesomely competent, and willing to be underhanded for what she believed in, and no one respected her for it. Is it any wonder that she eventually joined the Cylons? I submit to you: no; see also, Appendix A, That Fic Becca Wrote That One Time In Order To Drone For Several Thousand Words On This Subject.

Athena: Boomer was the first lady in the series I fell in love with . . . and I still feel bad for transferring my affections a little to Sharon/Athena, because did Boomer ever get a raw deal. And I love Boomer too! But I love the lengths Sharon was willing to go to, once she'd picked her side, and how much she eventually becomes part of the crew in spite of everything - that takes a lot of guts, and a lot of perseverance. I think it's that that I admire most about her, how she stuck that out.

D'Anna/Three: It was a tough call, on this, between D'Anna and Ellen Tigh. But eventually D'Anna won out. Because she's Xena Because she's so snarky and cynical, but at the same time she really, really believes in something. (And also, just because she's fabulous. >.>)

BSG back at you!

[aberration]

I'm going to have to keep up your pattern of having three Cylons :P

Sharon Agathon - I really have a weakness for characters that kind of hold between the "good" and "bad" sides in a story. There's a lot of characters this applies to in BSG, but Sharon's probably my favorite. I was a sucker for shipping her with Helo, and she's the only Cylon who really goes entirely into rejecting her Cylon identity, which - not healthy, but interesting. Plus she's a smartass.

Caprica-Six - I kind of like her for similar reasons to Sharon, except that she consistently stayed on the other side of the line and was never even really tempted away from her Cylon identity. But she's also a very in-between character, which is only accentuated by her direct role in the attacks on the Colonies and then key role in the overall plot arc.

Ellen Tigh - Because she gets drunk and cheats and everyone hates her. I love that she's this weird combination of hilariously Machiavellian and yet also hopelessly romantic - she fucks with Tigh all the time, but then commits all sorts of desperate acts to save him. And seriously, I love her because she pisses everyone off and they kept her around, anyway. It doesn't make me forgive them for who they didn't keep around when they should have, but it does amuse the hell out of me.

[skygiants]

Well, to be fair, of all the ladies left standing at the end of the show . . . were there any who weren't Cylons? *wry* (Not that the not-still-standing ladies were any less awesome, but.)


I love Ellen Tigh way more than I ever thought I would. She just totally does not care who she pisses off, it's amazing.