"Everyone feels like jumping sometimes. But we don't, you and me..."

[thisbluespirit]

lost_spook hunts in the back of the LJ cupboard and fishes out another awesome female for the meme at last.


Day 20: Annie Cartwright (Liz White)


Sam Tyler: Tell me what I should do, Annie.
Annie: Stay.

I am trying to think what to say without spoilers, for either LoM or Ashes to Ashes. It is not easy, but here we are: Annie's not the type of Obvious Awesome, she's the quietly Awesome type. Whether it's the way she wins her battles against sexism in the 1970s police force and deals with the people around her, or the way in which she's kind of literally Sam's good angel, I don't know. But she's lovely and awesome and human, and real, and Liz White plays her perfectly.


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Quotes:

Annie Cartwright: I haven't received any firearms training. That's not right...
Gene Hunt: [Exasperated] Y'see, this is why birds and CID don't mix. Give a bloke a gun, it's a dream come true. Give a girl one, and she moans it doesn't go with her dress! Now start behaving like a detective and show some balls.
Annie Cartwright: Thanks for being so sympathetic, sir. Let's hope you don't end up in my firing line.

Gene Hunt: Might buy us more time. Get the bastard out in the open. We kick him and cuff him.
Ray Carling: Sounds like a plan to me.
Annie Cartwright: God, it's always that simple with you lot.
Gene Hunt: Excuse me, Mrs Woman.
Annie Cartwright: Well, Sam's trying to work this thing out, and rest of us...we charge in like a herd of elephants! Details are what count. And I'm wondering, well I'm beginning to wonder, looking at Charley's old files, if we've really put down all the details.

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Fanvid
I can't find any non-spoilery ones at all, but this is my fave Sam/Annie vid - More Than This (although I suppose it's not spoilery out of context, or not for anything other than Sam/Annie?):

"Alan Rickman. А Christmas special, BBC" (Watch on YouTube)

30 days of Awesome TV Female Characters:
Day One: Soolin (B7)
Day Two: Dayna Mellanby (B7)
Day Three: Michelle of the Resistance (Allo Allo)
Day Four: Beatrice Eliott (House of Eliott)
Day Five: Captain Kathryn Janeway (ST:V)
Day Six: Maddy Magellan (Jonathan Creek)
Day Seven: Lady Mary Crawley (Downton Abbey)
Day Eight: Ros Myers (Spooks)
Day Nine: Servalan (B7)
Day Ten: Anna Thornton-Wilson (Hotel Babylon)
Day Eleven: Winifred Burkle (Angel)
Day Twelve: Isobel Crawley (Downton Abbey)
Day Thirteen: Rani Chandra (SJA)
Day Fourteen: Donna Moss (WW)
Day Fifteen: Lynda Day (Press Gang)
Day Sixteen: Cally (B7)
Day Seventeen: Laura Lancing (Brittas Empire)
Day Eighteen: Diana (Dungeons & Dragons)
Day Nineteen: Sandra Pullman (New Tricks)

Comments

[dweomeroflight.livejournal.com]

I love Annie and I love the way that she won her battles without ever losing her dignity.

Also, the quote from your post title is one of my favourite quotes from any tv show ever and I loved how it mirrored what happens in 2.8. "We all feel like jumping sometimes, Sam. Only we don't. Me and you, because we're not cowards." In the first episode as well (at least I think it was) I also love the quote about her cousin who suffered from depression and she says something about "you know what, he got better and things looked brighter again." It was something like that.

[thisbluespirit]

Yes, Life on Mars was just so well done all round. And Annie is lovely! :-)

[aralias.livejournal.com]

i love annie too, which is weird because she's not the sort of character i'm usually drawn to. but there's something extremely lovely and warm about her. she's strong without being obvious about it, and wise - similarly. and she's got a lovely smile, and a quiet sense of humour. it's brilliant that sam has her to complement what he has with gene. that's some very clever writing.

[thisbluespirit]

Yes, you're quite right. It is so well done, Life On Mars. And also there's something about Liz White - she is of course pretty gorgeous, but comes across very much as someone I believe is a 70s girl, and also someone I might meet, and not at all film-star ish. I find, when I think about the US making their remake, that I more upset about the idea of Annie being yet another blonde than about even Gene and Sam.

[belantana.livejournal.com]

Yay, Annie! I love all the quotes you chose.

[thisbluespirit]

:-)