Sententiae Draconis

From vermin_disciple:

Your job is now your Time Lord name. The last digit of your phone number is the current regeneration you are in. The nearest clothing item to your right is now the most notable item in your current wardrobe. The last person you texted is your current companion. Your favorite word is now your catchphrase.

I am The Teaching Assistant.

I'm in my 3rd regeneration.

If we're not including the pyjamas I'm currently wearing then my closest item of clothing is my blue bathrobe. BUT my bowler hat is also really close - so we're going to go with that. (Bowler Hats are cool.)

Technically the last person I texted was the bus... but the last human I texted was my roommate. And she'd love being a companion - so that works much better. Buses are hard to get through doors.

Favourite word? Erm... it might be "Balls!"

So I’ve been thinking a bunch about characters lately (clearly now that I don't have schoolwork to occupy my brain I have to analyze something else) and what makes me like one more than another. I think what I like best in a character is the same thing I like best in stories, which makes sense because I’ll love almost any story if I love the characters enough. I like stereotypes that don’t quite fit. That’s my favourite. And I think that even more than that I like the dumb jock who isn’t. So Daniel Brady from Shadow Unit, Colby Granger from Numb3rs, Tony DiNozzo from NCIS, Dean Winchester from Supernatural, and even to a certain extent Arthur from Merlin. This is probably why I like TV so much actually, since most of the good shows that last take stereotypes and then make them more interesting. I have no problem with this because I like it.

But most of my favourites are all men, I realise. So I got to thinking about why. Part of it is that there are usually way more men than women in the shows I watch. I like SciFi and Cop shows the best so that makes sense because there are more men than women in the military and the police. But even the women they do have just aren’t as interesting most of the time. Sometimes they’re just there to be pretty, sometimes they’re around to be love interests (which is almost invariably lame), and sometimes they’re there to be the strong female character who can do everything and do everything well because women are clearly as good as men at all these things (also remarkably lame). And I understand where the writers are coming from, because people (and not just women) have been sidelined so much in television until recently. A lot of new shows have over-arching storylines and character development and that is awesome. But women are hard because people are hard, and I think a lot of TV writers are more comfortable writing men than women – I’m more comfortable writing men than women.

Anyway, instead of going on and on about gender!fail and depressing everyone - not in the least myself because I’m not sure I approve of all this binary gender business anyway – I decided to make a list (with reasons) of some of my favourite female characters in TV. Here is a celebration of doing things right.

( Awesomeness - warning Long )

Am super tired. Still. Am very excited about upcoming days off. Right now 'm lying in bed and typing with one hand, which is frustrating but about as much effort as i'm willing to spend right now. Canada Day weekend working at a tourist attraction is busy. like wo.

I spent thelast couple of after works watching some TV on DVD that I rented. I finsihed Farscape and the first Series of the New Doctor Who. Nearly cried because Farscape is just that awesome, I'm tired and I'll never again have a new ep to watch. Also fell in love with Jack (Dr. Who... sorry for mixing fandoms, but tired).

Also watched to of the Season 1 eps of NCIS that wouldn;t download properly, thus renting was the only option. (sad I know) Oner of them was Enigma (where Gibbs' old CO goes crazy) and it turns out that Gibbs in a worn Carhart hoodie is a fantasy (now fulfilled) that I didn't know I had.

Other cool TV news: the season of TV that I'm getting from my Dad is Crusade. And because of a gift certificate and a sale I'm getting three seasons of Angel for what it used to cost for one of them. I will son own the puppet episode. And Galen.

Didn't I say I wouldn't mix fandoms anymore in this post? whatevs.