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Day Eleven: Female Character Meme
Mar. 17th, 2011 01:09 pmDay Eleven: Favorite female character in a children’s show: Lisa Simpson
I'm aware that's cheating, since the Simpsons is not, strictly speaking, a children's show but...kids watch it too? More for the visual jokes, Homer misadventures and Bart one-liners than the pithy social commentary, but I can see the all-ages appeal. Either way, Lisa is an amazing character, and I certainly hope she's been watched by/inspired enough little girls in the show's 20+ year run (along with the not-so-little girls).
She's genius-level intelligent, idealistic, driven, precocious, artistic and a whole range of other things one can't help but wonder how she came by (the leading canon theory seems to be Grandma Simpson, since the rest of the family are not exactly likely candidates). Not that it all comes easy to her-she lacks her brother Bart's (questionable in method but undeniable in result) social skills, can't seem to make a friend for more than one episode, she can occasionally be a swot and a bit like an overenthusiastic first-year-student in her myopic and naïve embracing of certain causes (which, given that she's EIGHT, is not bad really) and she's very much aware of her intellectual and moral superiority to the rest of her family. All her traits, positive and less so make her one of the most interesting, endearing and pretty damn emulation-worthy characters to appear on television.
( Days 1-30 )
I'm aware that's cheating, since the Simpsons is not, strictly speaking, a children's show but...kids watch it too? More for the visual jokes, Homer misadventures and Bart one-liners than the pithy social commentary, but I can see the all-ages appeal. Either way, Lisa is an amazing character, and I certainly hope she's been watched by/inspired enough little girls in the show's 20+ year run (along with the not-so-little girls).
She's genius-level intelligent, idealistic, driven, precocious, artistic and a whole range of other things one can't help but wonder how she came by (the leading canon theory seems to be Grandma Simpson, since the rest of the family are not exactly likely candidates). Not that it all comes easy to her-she lacks her brother Bart's (questionable in method but undeniable in result) social skills, can't seem to make a friend for more than one episode, she can occasionally be a swot and a bit like an overenthusiastic first-year-student in her myopic and naïve embracing of certain causes (which, given that she's EIGHT, is not bad really) and she's very much aware of her intellectual and moral superiority to the rest of her family. All her traits, positive and less so make her one of the most interesting, endearing and pretty damn emulation-worthy characters to appear on television.
( Days 1-30 )