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Pondering the sexiest sci-fi babes on television
Submitted by Capt. Xerox on January 13, 2010 - 8:54pm.
I just caught up with TV Guide's list of the top 25 sexiest sci-fi babes of TV. You can watch part 1 below and the other five parts here, here, here, here and here.
I'm glad to see that the X-Files Gillian Anderson makes the list, but was surprised at their choice for number one. I won't tell you who it was, but it's a choice that isn't hard to agree with.
Not to be outdone, Maxim has it's own list of "geekdom's baddest babes." Sorry, it's just a gallery of photos so it's not quite as easy on the eyes as the TV guide clips.
One of the babes on TV Guide's list is Battlestar Galactica's Katee Sackhoff, who's certainly my number one choice of that show's troika of hotties. Not long ago, she spoke to SciFi Wire about her role on the show 24 and what she thinks was the ultimate fate of Starbuck on BSG.
Definitely not on the list was Marina Sirtis, the actress who played Deanna Troi on Star Trek: The Next Generation. While most people loathed the show's Wesley character, Troi wasn't far behind.
Also not on the list was Felicia Day, who appeared on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Dollhouse. Too bad, because she's quite the science fiction geek. She's been talking on her blog recently about her love of SF books and has been soliciting suggestions from her fans about what to read next. They've given her some pretty good choices.
While all this eye candy is great, could the day of the sci-fi babe on TV be coming to an end? One observer thinks that the recent rebranding of Sci Fi to SyFy is part of a war on male science fiction and part of the feminization of the brand.
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Leave Troi Alone!
or the bargain price might have something to do with that particular Troi action figure looking a bit like a transvestite Troi in a granny thong.
I dunno about the writers at Fanboy.com, which I say to be polite and because it's my first visit there.
If it weren't nomened fanboy my first impression from reading that anti-Troi and anti-TNG article would be,
"appears to be writ by a typical 20th century lower to mid middle class American kid".
Which for anyone unawares, might be a good thing to be in other contexts, but when discussing genre opine, it is not a compliment.
Still, I have to get me some of that Tiberius cologne.
The Avante Guardian. ---- Einstein's Hair^2 //Approved.
Where ya been?
Hey there, TAG. It's been a while since you dropped by. I thought you had foresaken us. I guess the sexy babe sci-fi headline tripped one of your filters which drew your attention! Glad to see you again.
C.X.
[Deep Thunk] Womyn, The 2010 SF Calendar, & 21st Century Society
Thanx Cap, good to be back.
(Let's see if we can guess where he was:
Lost in the haze of wanton highly suspect Sexual ecapades with a girl daft enough to date him.
Abducted by aliens and only just got back
or
on haitus from teh internet in order to focus on events in the "real" world? - Ed)
The internet IS the real world, Ed.
(ergo the finger quotes - Ed)
Love the 2010 Sci-fi calendar Cap, but the physical propotions/size ratio of the women to the males, seems a bit statistically suspect. (for earth - Ed) I know, that's your point Cap, und it was no doubt deliberate on the part of the artist(s) too.
We Genre fans know that SF is one of the major sources of modern western science and techlogical development.
We Genre fans in particular also grew up with powerful female imagery (gerrups with the femmes in your 2010 calendar, laters with Sigourney Alien Amazon Weaver, et al)
And on viewing the new 2010 calendar I find myself wondering if SF didn't play a large part in western _social_ development too?
or a larger part than originally anticipated relating to in particular the expansion of women's freedoms, rights and personal-powers in the west.
It seems an interesting or odd coincidence, that the staples of latter 20th century/Early 21st century western life (Powerful women, Science and Technology) can be traced to Science-Fiction.
Which raises two question in my mind:
1. I wonder what the western world would have been like had SF not existed?
2. If we humour the rumour of SF's perennial demise, I wonder what will replace it in order to propel our society further forwards?
The Avante Guardian. ---- Einstein's Hair^2 //Approved.
SF will never die
If we humour the rumour of SF's perennial demise, I wonder what will replace it in order to propel our society further forwards?
That's an interesting observation. I think that as long as we're always striving for a better future and always dreaming up ways to get there that we'll have some form of speculative fiction to imagine that future. It may not always be called science fiction, but it will serve the same purpose. When we stop dreaming of that better tomorrow then we're finished as a species.
C.X.
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