[Discussion] Flawed canon and "bad" characters

[anenko.livejournal.com]

Who are your favourite "guilty pleasure" female characters? The ones who aren't good examples of what can be done with female characters, but who you deeply love anyway?

Have you spent hours creating backstory for a female character whose sole purpose in canon is to provide eyecandy for fanboys? Do you feel wildly passionate about a woman from a badly written, sexist series? Is your OTC a woman who died in the first episode of a new series, before the opening credits even began to roll?

Comments

[se-parsons.livejournal.com]

Martha is made of win.

She WALKED THE EARTH for a YEAR, telling a story and sowing the seeds of victory. Yeah, eat me, Rose. All you did was get possessed by the Tardis and let go of a handle.

[gwynevere1.livejournal.com]

Not that you aren't entitled to hate Rose, but is this really the forum for those views, considering that the entire point of this community is to celebrate female characters?

[se-parsons.livejournal.com]

I actually don't hate Rose at all.

I just tend to hate the privilaging of Rose I've noticed in the fandom, that's all.

Martha is awesome, yet she's all about being compared to Rose as lesser, even in canon. It's shortchanging the excellent character the show created.

[livii.livejournal.com]

Agree with the above statement; this is awfully uncalled for, here.

::likes both characters a lot::

[se-parsons.livejournal.com]

I also like Rose.

I don't like the fandom's tendency to love her and not-like Martha, and to constantly compare her when they are different individuals.