There is no denying the contribution these characters have made to a genre otherwise dominated by men, and this list represents five of my favorite star hoppin’, cyborg bustin’ and alien blastin’ women in all the universe. They are bold, resourceful, intelligent, sexy and tough as nails. I know I wouldn’t mess with them that’s for sure, but enough jabbering on. Let’s get down to business.
You know, I don’t know if FOX is going to do to Dollhouse what it did to Joss Whedon’s previous show (though from what I’ve read, the chances are 50-50), but one thing’s for sure: the death of Dollhouse isn’t going to do much to stem the tide of Eliza Dushku’s career. Let’s face it, having a weekly show on network TV, even one as lowly rated as Dollhouse, has allowed Dushku to show off all kinds of sex appeal, not to mention a ton of magazine appearances where she’s wearing, shall we say, just enough to show off her tattoos. This one’s from TV Guide, and yes, it makes you want to see Dollhouse if you haven’t been watching.
Diora Baird will be featured in a lovely green hue when she appears as an Orion (probably not a slave) in next months Sci-Fi pilgrimage destination “Star Trek” After the jump we have a few pictures from Zoo, a lovely British magazine that obviously appreciates the finer sights in Science Fiction.
According to actress Zoe Saldana, she’s part Dominican, Lebanese, Indian, Irish, and Jamaican. Or just to make it easier, she says she just tells people she’s from Queens. We don’t really care where she’s from or what her ethnic make-up is, we just care that she’s a damn fine actress, a damn fine looking one at that, and she’s in two of this year’s biggest sci-fi flicks: J.J. Abrams’ Trek reboot and James Cameron’s “Avatar”.
Robots are the ultimate Sci-Fi sex objects. While the human female can be as perfect, they come with certain disadvantages, like free will and a healthy suspicion of males. Synthetic females in film and television seem designed for no guilt attraction. Most are engineered to pass entirely as women, while some wear their feminine chrome in plain view. Disguised, a beautiful bot can perform many tasks, including deluding stupid and smitten males for the brief time it will require for them to be probed, sampled, interrogated or terminated.
Jamie Bamber and Tricia Helfer may be enemies on Battlestar Galactica, but they’re buddies in real life because both are concerned about saving animals. For Jamie Bamber, it’s saving the black bears of Canada from being hunted, killed and turned into furry hats, and Tricia Helfer wants to save cats. Because, er, apparently people are hunting, killing, and eating cats. I’m not sure about the last part, but I’m pretty sure about the first two. Probably.
I’m not sure if model turned actress Milla Jovovich ever thought her movie career would be filled with so many sci-fi movies, but sci-fi fans sure are happy that’s how it turned out. Her first big sci-fi role was, of course, Luc Besson’s “The Fifth Element” in 1997. She followed that up with “Ultraviolet” and all three “Resident Evil” movies. Granted, the “Resident Evil” franchise can be considered horror than sci-fi, but let’s face it, those films stopped being scary after part one and has become one big fantasy/sci-fi franchise since. Didn’t they clone the lead character? That sounds like sci-fi to me.
She’s killed vampires, kicked terrorist ass with Arnold Schwarzenegger, battled bitchy cheerleaderse, helped dead people get justice, and now she’s your perfect dream girl in Dollhouse — basically, she can be anyone you want, even if it’s just to piss some people off at your ex-girlfriend’s wedding. And oh yeah, ass kicking. Did I mention that Eliza Dushku does that pretty well, too? So of course, those are the perfect qualifications for our Sci-Fi Babe Spotlight. And even if it wasn’t, well, we would have fudged it to make it fit, anyway.
When you think about it, Charlize Theron as Aeon Flux should have resulted in some good box office. The futuristic actioner had one of the hottest movie stars in the world as its lead, in a movie where she’s required to wear a variety of groovy and sometimes very revealing outfits. She’s also a kickass heroine who just happens to be an elite assassin, and who doesn’t love a kickass heroine in a sci-fi action movie? Geeks love sci-fi movies where the girls can protect and kick their ass at the same time. Plus, the animated movie that “Aeon Flux” was based on was kind of a hit on TV, or at least, had plenty of cult following.
