Someone's being wrong on the Internet!
I'm Highly Dubious of any TV's Top Fifty Sci-Fi Characters list where the sole entry from Babylon 5 is Sheridan, and the sole entry from Farscape is Crichton. I like these characters, but by gum, they are not fabulous genre-defining creations. They are the Captain Kirks of their shows, the All-American Good Guy out to Save The Universe; they're not doing anything new or interesting. Now that might be occasionally, and very nicely, subverted in Crichton's case, but if you're looking at Farscape and going "yes, Crichton is the best character here; indeed he's one of sci-fi's greatest", then you're just wrong, dude. Aeryn's the best character in Farscape. Clearly.
B5 is less clear cut, but it's Not Sheridan. You could make a decent argument for Londo, G'Kar, Ivanova, even Delenn. I mean, it's Bester really, but I'm willing to admit that that could be my character kink biases talking.
And when your list has nine Trek characters and none of them are Sisko? You are also wrong.
And if you've only got eleven women on your list of fifty? So Judging You.
In other news, there's to be a one-off drama about the creation of Doctor Who for the 50th, which is a smashing idea. It's being written by Gatiss which is...well, I'm sure it'll come from a place of love, anyway. And it is a pretty great story, and one which Waris Hussein tells very well and with a great deal of humour. For this was a show made by a group of 'outsiders' at the Beeb - Lambert was the only female producer working in drama, and the youngest one; Hussein was Indian, a young director and the newest director at the Beeb; and Newman was a Canadian. No-one was very much interested in seeing them succeed. But, heh, they did, and look what they made and isn't it lovely?
B5 is less clear cut, but it's Not Sheridan. You could make a decent argument for Londo, G'Kar, Ivanova, even Delenn. I mean, it's Bester really, but I'm willing to admit that that could be my character kink biases talking.
And when your list has nine Trek characters and none of them are Sisko? You are also wrong.
And if you've only got eleven women on your list of fifty? So Judging You.
In other news, there's to be a one-off drama about the creation of Doctor Who for the 50th, which is a smashing idea. It's being written by Gatiss which is...well, I'm sure it'll come from a place of love, anyway. And it is a pretty great story, and one which Waris Hussein tells very well and with a great deal of humour. For this was a show made by a group of 'outsiders' at the Beeb - Lambert was the only female producer working in drama, and the youngest one; Hussein was Indian, a young director and the newest director at the Beeb; and Newman was a Canadian. No-one was very much interested in seeing them succeed. But, heh, they did, and look what they made and isn't it lovely?