Sad but True

[robinturner]

The course is coming together already. From an article about Lara Croft: "Many commentators have pointed to a recent tendency to allow female characters to be physically and powerful and independent—so long as they’re young, pretty and have large breasts."

Comments

[jaipur.livejournal.com]

I dunno, remember Dame Judi Dench playing Q... I thought she brought more power and independence to that role than any of the male Qs over the years. ;)

But in general, yeah. Unfortunately. There are darned few physically powerful and independent women characters out there at all.

[solri.livejournal.com]

Judi Dench is one of my favourite thespians. I first saw her around 1975, playing Lady Macbeth with the Royal Shakespeare Company - scary!

[jaipur.livejournal.com]

Sorry, I was out of order on your entries and hadn't seen that you were looking specifically for computer game characters. How do the "build your own adventure" games like WoW fit into this? Where the narrative comes from the player rather than the game designer?