Day 15 - favourite female character
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thessalianAs predicted, this one is relatively easy. Sure, there are a fair few female characters in the programmes I watch, but they're not permitted quite the same amount of awesome that the blokes are. Unless you're watching something that focuses entirely on the women, but most of what I've seen of that is Buffy and ... well, as much as I like it for mindless entertainment, I have problems with that show.
Anyway, while I have a wide range of supporting actresses to choose from, I more or less decided in advance which female character I was going to pick for this one, and have no qualms about my choice. My favourite female character is Abby Sciuto from NCIS.
First of all, I have great respect for any show that can turn around and make a character that doesn't fit the usual (generally wrong-headed) stereotype for a sub-genre. Abby's a goth, but Abby is not hiding it from her co-workers by dressing all straight by day and then doing the velvet-and-lace crap during the night and at weekends. She's in her lab and she will wear what she wants, even if that does include spiked dog collars, black lipstick and stompy platform boots. And she will play Android Lust, Celldweller and Pendulum; for her, goth neither begins nor ends with The Cure. Okay, she sleeps in a coffin and we don't know why, but it's not "My soul is dead! Alas! Woe!" It's ... a quirk. It certainly doesn't stop Abby from being relentlessly, irrepressibly cheerful and very damn good at her job. I swear, Abby's a perfect case study for "let people wear what they want at the office and watch their productivity improve".
Also, while she's ostensibly the 'little girl' of NCIS (it's fairly obvious that Gibbs views the entire NCIS team as his family, Abby represents the daughter he lost), Abby can kick arse when she has to. She's not just there to be rescued; in fact, there have been at least two occasions when she's been in a tricky situation and the gang has burst in to find the would-be assailant hog-tied and a dishevelled Abby standing there as if to say, "...what?" I seem to recall a pissed off assistant and the immortal line, "Can I work alone now?"
On the whole, Abby has the awesome and I love her dearly. She's a competent woman, blending science and the esoteric without lampooning either, who can kick arse, take names, provide the answers no one else can and do it all in dog collar, stompy boots and tats. To the tune of ... well, half my music collection. How can I not love this girl?
In other news ... JOB INTERVIEW! I have to be in Hackney a week Monday. Woo! Now I just have to hope that a) this interview goes as well as the last one and b) the consultant in question prefers me, on a personal level, to any other candidates that match my skill level and experience.
Anyway, while I have a wide range of supporting actresses to choose from, I more or less decided in advance which female character I was going to pick for this one, and have no qualms about my choice. My favourite female character is Abby Sciuto from NCIS.
First of all, I have great respect for any show that can turn around and make a character that doesn't fit the usual (generally wrong-headed) stereotype for a sub-genre. Abby's a goth, but Abby is not hiding it from her co-workers by dressing all straight by day and then doing the velvet-and-lace crap during the night and at weekends. She's in her lab and she will wear what she wants, even if that does include spiked dog collars, black lipstick and stompy platform boots. And she will play Android Lust, Celldweller and Pendulum; for her, goth neither begins nor ends with The Cure. Okay, she sleeps in a coffin and we don't know why, but it's not "My soul is dead! Alas! Woe!" It's ... a quirk. It certainly doesn't stop Abby from being relentlessly, irrepressibly cheerful and very damn good at her job. I swear, Abby's a perfect case study for "let people wear what they want at the office and watch their productivity improve".
Also, while she's ostensibly the 'little girl' of NCIS (it's fairly obvious that Gibbs views the entire NCIS team as his family, Abby represents the daughter he lost), Abby can kick arse when she has to. She's not just there to be rescued; in fact, there have been at least two occasions when she's been in a tricky situation and the gang has burst in to find the would-be assailant hog-tied and a dishevelled Abby standing there as if to say, "...what?" I seem to recall a pissed off assistant and the immortal line, "Can I work alone now?"
On the whole, Abby has the awesome and I love her dearly. She's a competent woman, blending science and the esoteric without lampooning either, who can kick arse, take names, provide the answers no one else can and do it all in dog collar, stompy boots and tats. To the tune of ... well, half my music collection. How can I not love this girl?
In other news ... JOB INTERVIEW! I have to be in Hackney a week Monday. Woo! Now I just have to hope that a) this interview goes as well as the last one and b) the consultant in question prefers me, on a personal level, to any other candidates that match my skill level and experience.