Pop Culture Heroines

I saw a list of pop culture heroines from another site and it kind of surprised me that I know most of those mentioned. I really have been watching to much TV, huh?! Well, it gives me something to write about so it’s a good thing in my books. I want an HDTV someday, though.

I picked out three of my favorites, in no particular order:

1. Buffy Summers. The reluctant hero. She’s almost just a child when she was called to serve her duty (well, of fighting creatures of the night and other spawns of evil). She grew so much in the course of the seven seasons of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and yet by the end she’s still a work in progress. I love the fact that she is such a flawed character. She’s  physically as strong as 10 men combined but it doesn’t mean she’s emotionally as tough. She made mistakes and learned from them, just like any other young person going into adulthood. And at the same time she saved the world … a lot!

2. Sydney Bristow. The kick-ass spy. How many people can claim to be a genius? And how many geniuses can learn to be so physically capable to carry out spy missions. Well, you know, beating up guys twice her size, detonating bombs, impersonating people, speaking a multitude of languages, and occasionally jumping off planes and mountains. I loved watching how good she was tactically; how she solved seemingly hopeless problems in the nick of time. I’m actually watching Alias all over again.

3. Dana Scully. Miss logical; a medical doctor and an FBI agent. They say when a person hardly smiles, it’s like a rare privilege to witness it happen. Scully is oh so serious, and in a way I can understand that inclination perfectly. Her firm grasp of physical laws makes her a skeptic of all things that cannot be explained by science, so it’s almost ironic that between her and Mulder in The X-Files, she’s the one who keeps a specific religious faith. But her heart is in the right place. It doesn’t hurt that she serves as a “touchstone” to her partner as well.