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Day One: Favorite lead female character
Day Two: Favorite supporting female character
Day Three: A female character you hated but grew to love
Day Four: Favorite animated female character
Day Five: Favorite female character on a male-driven show
Day Six: Favorite female-driven show
Day Seven: A female character that needs more screen time
Day Eight: Favorite female character in a comedy show
Day Nine: Favorite female character in a drama show
Day Ten: Favorite female character in a scifi/supernatural show - Dr. Saunders
So, this is slightly an awkward one because it involves spoilers for Dollhouse. So it’s going under a cut, where anyone who doesn’t mind spoilers can read it. Who knows, maybe if you’re intrigued, you might actually WATCH THE SHOW. I've talked about Buffy and Angel (and really at some point Firefly is going to make an appearance) so it's only fair that I get the other Joss show in here as well. I was telling Julie last night that the reason I love SF so much is that it poses extremely important questions in truly unique ways. This character has to deal with impossible questions about identity and self, which is really the epitome of the entire show as well.
Dr. Saunders is really not the character I am thinking of. Rather the character is Whiskey, a doll (played PERFECTLY by Amy Acker) who knows she is a doll. When the audience is first introduced to Amy Acker’s character, she is Dr. Claire Saunders and we do not know she is a doll. She works in the Dollhouse as the dolls physician and when she discovers that her identity is an invention, she is completely lost. Unlike Echo, who gradually remembers skills and personalities she is imprinted with. Whiskey is faced with a much harder truth. Echo must combine many people into one personality. Whiskey must come to terms with the fact that her identity as Claire Saunders is a lie. She is the only doll who knows she is a doll. She doesn’t know what her actual identity was, or how many times she has been imprinted. In a simply amazing scene (that I reallyreally wish I could find on youtube) she “confronts” Topher about her identity and states that she knows she is not real, and yet she feels the need preserve herself. She is a parasite in a body of someone else and yet she will refuse to leave that body and die. (And if that is not a comment on Fred and Illyria…) I’m not entirely sure what happens to Whiskey. Joss only got Amy Acker for three episodes in season 2 and used her in an amazing way, but like much of Dollhouse, there are plenty of questions left unanswered.
Day Eleven: Favorite female character in a children’s show
Day Twelve: Favorite female character in a movie
Day Thirteen: Favorite female character in a book
Day Fourteen: Favorite older female character
Day Fifteen: Favorite female character growth arc
Day Sixteen: Favorite mother character
Day Seventeen: Favorite warrior female character
Day Eighteen: Favorite non-warrior female character
Day Nineteen: Favorite non-human female character
Day Twenty: Favorite female antagonist
Day Twenty-One: Favorite female character screwed over by canon
Day Twenty-Two: Favorite female character you love but everyone else hates
Day Twenty-Three: Favorite female platonic relationship
Day Twenty-Four: Favorite female romantic relationship
Day Twenty-Five: Favorite mother/daughter and/or sister relationship
Day Twenty-Six: Favorite classical female character (from pre-20th century literature or mythology or the like)-
Day Twenty-Seven: A female character you have extensive personal canon for
Day Twenty-Eight: Favorite female writer (television, books, movies, etc.)
Day Twenty-Nine: Favorite group of ladies
Day Thirty: Whatever you’d like