Women of Doctor Who celebration post

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

I was intending for my halfamoon contribution to be a post about the women in Doctor Who – and very quickly realised that could get very long and unwieldy, because the Doctor Who universe is not only enormous (thirty seasons and counting if you stick to the TV stuff alone; there are many hundreds of novels, comics and full-cast audio dramas) but it’s also got a ton of female characters who I adore, from bit-part characters with a few lines in a single episode to companions who spent years on the TARDIS.

The best way to go seemed to be a love thread/celebration thread, of a type I’ve done before for the companions. This time it’s a post about all the women of the Doctor Who universe, companions or not, from the classic series, new series, the ‘middle school’ books/audios/comics stuff, Torchwood, and The Sarah Jane Adventures. It’s going to work in the same way as the post linked above: leave a comment with a character in the subject line, and people can respond with what they love about that character, their best moments or quotes, fic recs, drabbles, picspam, relevant links, or anything else. Any female character’s fine, though if it’s a minor character you might want to add the relevant episode title to the subject, especially if they share a name (I’m happy to squee over both Jenny from The Doctor’s Daughter and Jenny from Human Nature but we need to know which is which).

I’ll add a list of links to threads as they appear. I don’t want to dictate a bunch of rules for this, but it should go without saying this is meant to be a fun, positive thing on a comm that’s about celebrating women, so keep that in mind (“I love Mel, I don’t know why so many people hate her!” is a rhetorical statement, not a request for more information) and try not to passive-aggressively slam other characters while loving on your own (the difference between “Donna’s brilliant, I loved having a slightly older companion” and “Donna’s brilliant; finally, a companion who’s not a simpering schoolgirl”).

And… go!

New Who

Astrid Peth
Donna Noble
Jackie Tyler
Martha Jones
Rose Tyler
Reinette/Madame de Pompadour

Classic Who

Ace McShane
Barbara Wright
Dodo Chaplet
Jo Grant
Leela
Liz Shaw
Mel Bush
Nyssa
Peri Brown
Polly Wright
Romana I
Romana II
Susan Foreman
Tegan Jovanka
Victoria Waterfield
Zoe Heriot
Professor Amelia Rumford

Torchwood

Gwen Cooper
Suzie Costello
Toshiko Sato

SJA

Sarah Jane Smith
Maria Jackson
Rani Chandra

Non-TV media

Alison Cheney
Anji Kapoor
Benny Summerfield
Charley Pollard
Erimem
Evelyn Smythe
Izzy Sinclair

Comments

Re: Martha Jones

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

As the icon says, she's Doctor of Pwnage. She pwned the Master's arse by laughing in his face after outwitting him. She put up with some utter crap in 1913, but still kept her cool and talked John Smith into doing the right AND cared enough about he felt about Joan to offer to go and talk to her. She's a science geek, book nerd, compassionate, caring, strong, patient, loving, determined, hard-working, sensible and awesome.

She's also hawt as hell (I melt every time I see her in the purple dress and shoes in "The Lazarus Experiment") and cute with it.

I wish she was my friend.

Re: Martha Jones

[a_blackpanther]

Yup, she's awesome, and she went trough a lot for the Doctor. I'm very impressed with her willingness to stay with the human doctor and basically save his ass a couple of times during that episode. And then work so that she and the Doctor could live in (what year was it?) Blink.

I loved how you could see she'd rather blow up the planet rather than live trough another "year that never was" sort of thing. I love it when writers don't forget character's histories.

Re: Martha Jones

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

1969, Blink...

I think it was less that she didn't want to live through another Year like the one she'd spent under the Master, than that she didn't want the Daleks and Davros to destroy the Universe. She figured what was one planet compared to the whole of the Universe. And given she'd already saved that planet, and by extension the Universe that the Master was planning to wreak havoc in, I think she had a good right to make that choice, rather than anyone else.

At the same time, I am proud of her for giving them the ultimatum and not just going ahead and blowing it up (she believes in second chances, does Martha Jones, unlike a certain Time Lord of her acquaintance).

Re: Martha Jones

[supasass.livejournal.com]

Your last line rings so true. She was the best friend who suffers along when they're best friend is going through a detox and lashes out at them. She was the Tenth Doctor's walking stick in series 3, and still managed to completely be herself at the end of it all and not lose herself and all her plans.

Re: Martha Jones

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

Hear, hear!!

She pwns so hard, and I love her!