Female Heroes
Top 75 Heroines of Fantasy, Sci-Fi, and Horror
Initially I was disappointed, becuase they mostlylooked at women in film, TV, and comics. So it’s somewhat limited in that aspect, but in retrospect, it’s a resonable limitation [Exceptions: Granny Weatherwax (Discworld) & Morgaine (Mists of Avalon)].
Plus, Jadzia Dax [Deep Space Nine] was on the list (#42).
Glaring omission: Zoe [Firefly]. Though she show was on for such a short time, I suppose I can accept that. (since the list was begun in 2004)
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May 25th, 2006 at 6:02 am
Hmm, but both of these have been turned into television — I can’t recall exactly which of the Discworld books were done as cartoons but I bet Granny W was in one of them. And I’ve actually toyed with buying Mists of Avalon on DVD… The only one I recall seeing in there that may not have been in a comic or tv show/movie is Honor Harrington (I’ve never read those books, but they’ve been recommended to me several times…)
Some of the choices were neat, if only for nostalgia reasons (Dan-o named his daughter after Scarlett, Sean recalled Electra Woman and Dyna Girl with pleasure, and I think it should have been Akane on that list instead of Ranma…) and some of them I just don’t agree with, but what a daunting task it would be to put together a list like that! (I did get a kick out of having Scheherazade in there…) I’m not sure if I dare trying to put together my own list!
May 25th, 2006 at 7:59 am
– “Though she show was on for such a short time…” –
Lousy excuse. There were 14 episodes of the series plus the movie which means that Zoe has appeared on screen for more total minutes than Ripley. :-)
May 25th, 2006 at 10:43 am
I briefly considered making my own list, but it would be heavily weighted towards fantasy books, and I think there’s a lot less common ground there than with movies and TV (and major comics)
And yeah, it’s not a great excuse, but I gave them the benefit of the doubt that they were trying to list characters everyone would be more likely to know.