List fail and Best Sci-fi/Genre MOTHERS.
So, the other day, I was failing in an attempt to come up with a list of important mother/daughter relationships, and today, we have this list of fail with Best. TV. Fathers. With people like William Adama (WTF!) and KYLE REESE on it. And MAGNETO!
So, I know that Adama is a biological father to only Lee, but he and the series refer to Kara as his daughter enough that I’m going to include that because Adama is fond of disowning Kara randomly when she does stuff he doesn’t approve of. I’m pretty sure Lee never gets disowned?
And I seriously don’t remember any of the Terminator movies and am missing much of Kyle Reese’s story, but this is why he deserves to be on this list, “He might've been an absentee dad - almost as absentee as you can get, given that he was a dead time-traveler for much of John Connor's adolescence - but he put Sarah Connor on the path towards the future and armed her with knowledge (and knocked her up).”
So he’s on it for…providing the DNA? I’m sure we call that a sperm donor and not, um, a father. I’m mostly annoyed that he’s now somehow responsible for all of Sarah’s awesome.
So that’s the least the men have to do to be on the list, but I doubt the Supernatural mom will be on a similar list for PROVIDING THE REFRIGERATED MOTIVATION FOR THEIR ENTIRE NARRATIVE?
And! Magneto is on the list. Which is just…hasn’t he canonically tried to hit on/sleep with BOTH his daughters? And the time when he tried to get Scott to call him Daddy to make Pietro jealous? *dies*
But, anyway, you guys know what this calls for, yes? It’s time for a list! Of awesome sci-fi/speculative/genre fiction mothers. And of course, we’ll start with Sarah Connor. I’m also going to add a star if the child is a daughter for ease of making my other list, and would appreciate it if you can do the same when you add to it?
1). Medea
1). Sarah Connor (Terminator franchise)
2). Rita Sue Dreyfuss (Carnivale)*
3). Lois Herickson (Big Love)
4). Darla (Buffyverse) - absentee parent who actually CONTRIBUTED!
5). Klytemnestra (Greek Mythology)*
6). Diane Evans (Roswell)*
7). Pearl (Vampire Diaries)*
8). Amy DeLuca (Roswell)*
9). Sita/Alisa Perne (Last Vampire series)*
10). Vala Mal Doran (Stargate)*
11). Joyce Summers (Buffy)*
12). Nicki Grant (Big Love)*
13). Demeter (Greek Mythology)*
14). Snow White (Fables)
15). Madelyne Pryor (X-men) DO NOT ARGUE WITH ME ON THIS. ;)
I shall edit and add later. But I think, in general, fiction seems to fall all over itself giving MEN credit for the tiniest of things, but women have to literally die and get refrigerated before they’re allowed to be important to narratives. And we all know that dead mothers provide much more motivation than live ones! This is when fiction isn’t ignoring their existence altogether.
So, I know that Adama is a biological father to only Lee, but he and the series refer to Kara as his daughter enough that I’m going to include that because Adama is fond of disowning Kara randomly when she does stuff he doesn’t approve of. I’m pretty sure Lee never gets disowned?
And I seriously don’t remember any of the Terminator movies and am missing much of Kyle Reese’s story, but this is why he deserves to be on this list, “He might've been an absentee dad - almost as absentee as you can get, given that he was a dead time-traveler for much of John Connor's adolescence - but he put Sarah Connor on the path towards the future and armed her with knowledge (and knocked her up).”
So he’s on it for…providing the DNA? I’m sure we call that a sperm donor and not, um, a father. I’m mostly annoyed that he’s now somehow responsible for all of Sarah’s awesome.
So that’s the least the men have to do to be on the list, but I doubt the Supernatural mom will be on a similar list for PROVIDING THE REFRIGERATED MOTIVATION FOR THEIR ENTIRE NARRATIVE?
And! Magneto is on the list. Which is just…hasn’t he canonically tried to hit on/sleep with BOTH his daughters? And the time when he tried to get Scott to call him Daddy to make Pietro jealous? *dies*
But, anyway, you guys know what this calls for, yes? It’s time for a list! Of awesome sci-fi/speculative/genre fiction mothers. And of course, we’ll start with Sarah Connor. I’m also going to add a star if the child is a daughter for ease of making my other list, and would appreciate it if you can do the same when you add to it?
1). Medea
1). Sarah Connor (Terminator franchise)
2). Rita Sue Dreyfuss (Carnivale)*
3). Lois Herickson (Big Love)
4). Darla (Buffyverse) - absentee parent who actually CONTRIBUTED!
5). Klytemnestra (Greek Mythology)*
6). Diane Evans (Roswell)*
7). Pearl (Vampire Diaries)*
8). Amy DeLuca (Roswell)*
9). Sita/Alisa Perne (Last Vampire series)*
10). Vala Mal Doran (Stargate)*
11). Joyce Summers (Buffy)*
12). Nicki Grant (Big Love)*
13). Demeter (Greek Mythology)*
14). Snow White (Fables)
15). Madelyne Pryor (X-men) DO NOT ARGUE WITH ME ON THIS. ;)
I shall edit and add later. But I think, in general, fiction seems to fall all over itself giving MEN credit for the tiniest of things, but women have to literally die and get refrigerated before they’re allowed to be important to narratives. And we all know that dead mothers provide much more motivation than live ones! This is when fiction isn’t ignoring their existence altogether.