day 30 of favorite female characters
I'm sure some of you who know me well were wondering which other female character from Battlestar Galactica I was going to choose. The problem is I couldn't choose; instead, I'm paying tribute to almost all them. Warning: image-heavy.
Let's start with the characters played by women in the opening credits: only four actresses, but they play a wide variety of roles.
Six: Caprica, the Six who lives in Baltar's brain, Gina, Natalie, the Six who killed Barolay, the Six with the pretty brown hair...
Eight: Boomer and Athena (who shared the name Sharon) are the named Eights. (No other Eights are named, and we don't see much of the unnamed Eights, either.)
Laura Roslin: Even Roslin has multiple titles, if not multiple names: Secretary of Education, President, teacher, cancer survivor, politician (in the best and worse meanings of the word), Pythia, cancer victim, the voice of the people, the face of treason...
Kara Thrace: I've already written about why I'd want Kara Thrace on my side in a fight (posted to awesome_women). Instead I'll list some of her titles as well: pilot, lover, victim, sibling rival (sort of), pseudo-daughter, survivor, follower, leader, wife, martyr, angel, frakkup, harbinger of death, savior of humanity.
Moving on to other women.
One-hit wonders:
women who worked for a better world that they didn't get to see:
mothers:
women with pretty hair and pretty ships/guns:
epic villains who inspired loyalty:
women who asked inconvenient questions:
women who dreamed dreams, saw visions and prayed:
women who did their jobs with no fanfare:
brilliant creators and traitors:
and of course, the shape of things to come:
Oh my show! My first online fandom and I still have so much fanlove for it.
This was really hard! I tried to avoid being too silly. Then there was hunting down the right screencaps, and then I had to limit myself! I could do a whole picspam of Kandyse McClure's beautiful, expressive face, for instance. Or of the adorable girls who played Hera at various ages. Or...
Images from GalacticaBBS and Carole Segal.
Posted at Dreamwidth: http://rose-griffes.dreamwidth.org/195636.html. Comment where you wish.
Let's start with the characters played by women in the opening credits: only four actresses, but they play a wide variety of roles.
Six: Caprica, the Six who lives in Baltar's brain, Gina, Natalie, the Six who killed Barolay, the Six with the pretty brown hair...
Eight: Boomer and Athena (who shared the name Sharon) are the named Eights. (No other Eights are named, and we don't see much of the unnamed Eights, either.)
Laura Roslin: Even Roslin has multiple titles, if not multiple names: Secretary of Education, President, teacher, cancer survivor, politician (in the best and worse meanings of the word), Pythia, cancer victim, the voice of the people, the face of treason...
Kara Thrace: I've already written about why I'd want Kara Thrace on my side in a fight (posted to awesome_women). Instead I'll list some of her titles as well: pilot, lover, victim, sibling rival (sort of), pseudo-daughter, survivor, follower, leader, wife, martyr, angel, frakkup, harbinger of death, savior of humanity.
Moving on to other women.
One-hit wonders:
women who worked for a better world that they didn't get to see:
mothers:
women with pretty hair and pretty ships/guns:
epic villains who inspired loyalty:
women who asked inconvenient questions:
women who dreamed dreams, saw visions and prayed:
women who did their jobs with no fanfare:
brilliant creators and traitors:
and of course, the shape of things to come:
Oh my show! My first online fandom and I still have so much fanlove for it.
This was really hard! I tried to avoid being too silly. Then there was hunting down the right screencaps, and then I had to limit myself! I could do a whole picspam of Kandyse McClure's beautiful, expressive face, for instance. Or of the adorable girls who played Hera at various ages. Or...
Images from GalacticaBBS and Carole Segal.
Posted at Dreamwidth: http://rose-griffes.dreamwidth.org/195636.html. Comment where you wish.