Day One: Female Character Meme

[ishtar79]

I decided to do this meme because it's awesome, obviously, and because I need to motivate myself to post more often.

Day One: Favorite female character: Veronica Mars




This was a no-brainer for me. Veronica is pretty much as close to my ideal of a female protagonist as you can get. She's smart and resourceful, kickass (in a way that doesn't involve literal kicking of asses), fiercely loyal and sharply sarcastic to...everyone. Yet at the same time, she's wonderfully flawed. Her determination occasionally goes to obsessive extremes, her ethics can be...flexible, at best, and like any teenager, she's at times self-absorbed. It's those very imperfections that make her all the more compelling.

It's true that later seasons never matched up to the genius of season 1, and I was over Veronica/Logan before it even happened, but I kept rooting for Veronica until the very end. I loved her relationships with Lilly, Wallace and Keith, the way she crushed for enemies and the undeniable truth that Veronica Mars is, in fact, smarter than you.


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: A female character you relate to
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
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-Thre: 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: A female-centric fic rec
Day Thirty: Whatever you'd like!

Comments

[ariadneelda.livejournal.com]

Yay, you started the meme! Looking forward to seeing the rest of your answers. :) And Veronica is ♥.

[ishtar79.livejournal.com]

I figured I might as well go for it. I know some answers will be almost impossible to figure out though (too many options!).

[ackonrad.livejournal.com]

Wow, this is a great meme! Once I have my Internet again, I'm going to do it as well. :)

[ishtar79.livejournal.com]

I hope you will, I'd love to see your answers!

[embers-log.livejournal.com]

Veronica Mars is the rare existential heroine... that very first episode was so awesome because they stripped her of everything and left her facing the world broken and alone... Few writer/creators would dare to create anyone as edgy as Veronica... but one did:

Have you read 'Hunger Games'? Because Katniss is the same kind of tough 'they will not get me down' female protagonist (I just inhaled those books). But of course if you are studying then this is not the time! lol

[ishtar79.livejournal.com]

Veronica Mars is the rare existential heroine... that very first episode was so awesome because they stripped her of everything and left her facing the world broken and alone...

So true. Not coincidentally, the VM premiere is also my all-time favourite pilot. Pilots are so often awkward and full of exposition, but with the VM pilot, everything just *clicked*.

And no, I haven't read it, but it sounds very interesting. As soon as my MBA workload eases up (like when this month from hell is done), I'll check them out.

[embers-log.livejournal.com]

You've inspired me to take down my VM DVDs and rewatch the pilot... and probably the whole first season... lol

[ishtar79.livejournal.com]

Haha, my work here is done! :D

[nemesister.livejournal.com]

Amazing meme, I have to think if I had answer to all those... Amazing post too, of course. She was really outstanding.

[ishtar79.livejournal.com]

Veronica is perfection.

And the questions are not necessarily easy to answer, more because there are so many possible choices for some of them.

[go-back-chief.livejournal.com]

So many questions, so little time. But I'll look forward to read the rest of your answers.

[ishtar79.livejournal.com]

Hey, if it will get me off my ass and posting again... :P

[lilith-morgana.livejournal.com]

I'm going to have to steal this. :)

[ishtar79.livejournal.com]

You should, I'd love to see your picks.

[rahael.livejournal.com]

I have to totally agree here.

[ishtar79.livejournal.com]

Veronica is love.