30 Day Female Character Challenge Day 7

[uberreiniger]

Day One: Favorite lead female character
Day Two: Favorite supporting female character
Day Three: A female character you hated but grew to love
Day Four: A female character you relate to
Day Five: Favorite female character on a male-driven show
Day Six: Favorite female-driven show
Day Seven: A female character that needs more screen time
Day Eight: Favorite female character in a comedy show
Day Nine: Favorite female character in a drama show
Day Ten: Favorite female character in a scifi/supernatural show
Day Eleven: Favorite female character in a children’s show
Day Twelve: Favorite female character in a movie
Day Thirteen: Favorite female character in a book
Day Fourteen: Favorite older female character
Day Fifteen: Favorite female character growth arc
Day Sixteen: Favorite mother character
Day Seventeen: Favorite warrior female character
Day Eighteen: Favorite non-warrior female character
Day Nineteen: Favorite non-human female character
Day Twenty: Favorite female antagonist
Day Twenty-One: Favorite female character screwed over by canon
Day Twenty-Two: Favorite female character you love but everyone else hates
Day Twenty-Thre: Favorite female platonic relationship
Day Twenty-Four: Favorite female romantic relationship
Day Twenty-Five: Favorite mother/daughter and/or sister relationship
Day Twenty-Six: Favorite classical female character (from pre-20th century literature or mythology or the like)
Day Twenty-Seven: A female character you have extensive personal canon for
Day Twenty-Eight: Favorite female writer (television, books, movies, etc.)
Day Twenty-Nine: A female-centric fic rec
Day Thirty: Whatever you’d like!

Day Seven: A female character that needs more screen time

I had this one answered as soon as I first saw the question days ago: Saffron from Firefly. She got two centric episodes which is the same number as fellow recurring villains Badger and Niska and got more onscreen time than either of them so she certainly wasn't neglected by any means. There just needed to be more of her, as there needed to be with all things Firefly. *sigh*

I really believe that had the series continued she would have gradually made the shift to regular guest star and/or permanent cast member much the same way Spike did on Buffy. It's a shame that didn't happen. And can I just say what a shame it is we never saw more of Christina Hendricks, the beautiful and talented actress who played her? Alas, I imagine she's probably working at a McDonald's or clipping coupons in a trailer somewhere. If only she had stayed in show business! Who knows what might have happened? Personally, I could see her in something period where she gets to wear lots of sexy 1940's outfits and hangs out with handsome, troubled men who smoke a lot, men who are perhaps in their own way quite mad. But c'mon, who's gonna put something like THAT on the air?

Comments

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

I enjoyed her immensely on Firefly. I think more than anything else (except maybe the train robbery), her schemes played up the wild west feeling of the show, which was very fun. I'd have liked to see her eventually join the crew too, maybe in a "the enemy of my enemy is my ally" kind of way, except that you know she could never really be trusted not to also be running some sort of scam on her allies.

[uberreiniger.livejournal.com]

She was a character rife with so much potential. She'd basically be an instant plot generator on board the ship and what adventuring band doesn't need that?

[lucretiasheart.livejournal.com]

ROFL! 1960s outfits dear!

[uberreiniger.livejournal.com]

forties, sixties, what difference can twenty years possibly make?

[lucretiasheart.livejournal.com]

**falls over laughing**

[lucretiasheart.livejournal.com]

Oh, and I agree!

I thought a cool idea for an episode to bring her back would have been for her to have lost her memory somehow (the Alliance?) and been foisted off on the Captain since there is some obscure record of her being his wife. They then end up with either an amnesiac or it turns out to be yet another con. That would have been fun.

[uberreiniger.livejournal.com]

I tend to avoid fanfiction but if you wrote that script I would read it :)

[lucretiasheart.livejournal.com]

LOL!! Don't tempt me to write it!