Aaaaghhh. No, you don't need to make the Doctor a woman because the Doctor is one character who happens to be male. Want a strong scientific female role model? MAKE ONE YOURSELF.
Oh, and add Ellie Arroway to your list of awesome characters? Protagonist of Contact, brilliant scientist, gets to hang out with aliens. I <3 her. (Which is why I raged so hard at the movie. There's one character, Palmer Joss, who Ellie has a partially antagonistic/rivalling relationship with, with an implication of some romantic attraction at the end. In the movie, he's promoted to full-on love interest and secondary main character - because god forbid a sci fi movie have a female protagonist - and actually tries to stop her from travelling in the Machine (to meet aliens! Her DREAM!) because he doesn't want her to go. Movie!Ellie just goes "OH YOU" and gets cuddly. Book!Ellie would have kicked him in the groin and gone, "FUCK YOU, I'M GOING AND YOU'RE NOT STOPPING ME.")
...Anyway. Sorry >.> I like book!Ellie.
ETA: Oh, hey XD Someone uses almost the exact phrasing.
How about when Joss told Ellie that he threw her the God question at the review meeting just to keep her from going on the Machine and thus leaving him, possibly forever? Ellie's reaction should have been to punch Joss' lights out, not look at him with weepy eyes of tenderness and gratitude. Why? Because her true life devotion was making contact with an ETI, not this pretty boy, New Age rhetoric-spouting preacher whom she slept with only once and barely knew before then. Maybe Joss thought he was in love with her, but the only real man in Ellie's life was long dead. Joss took away her one (at the time) chance at meeting ETI/Dad. Forget that Ellie would have been killed instead of Drumlin if she had won the seat the first time. Neither of them could predict that incident. Joss stole her dream for his own selfish reasons and that should have made Ellie madder than hell. Instead she looks at him with an expression of love which I have a hard time believing could ever exist between two characters who probably have little more than a physical attraction to each other. Hardly a reason to lose a goal like being the first person to contact an advanced alien civilization.
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Oh, and add Ellie Arroway to your list of awesome characters? Protagonist of Contact, brilliant scientist, gets to hang out with aliens. I <3 her. (Which is why I raged so hard at the movie. There's one character, Palmer Joss, who Ellie has a partially antagonistic/rivalling relationship with, with an implication of some romantic attraction at the end. In the movie, he's promoted to full-on love interest and secondary main character - because god forbid a sci fi movie have a female protagonist - and actually tries to stop her from travelling in the Machine (to meet aliens! Her DREAM!) because he doesn't want her to go. Movie!Ellie just goes "OH YOU" and gets cuddly. Book!Ellie would have kicked him in the groin and gone, "FUCK YOU, I'M GOING AND YOU'RE NOT STOPPING ME.")
...Anyway. Sorry >.> I like book!Ellie.
ETA: Oh, hey XD Someone uses almost the exact phrasing.
How about when Joss told Ellie that he threw her the God question at the review meeting just to keep her from going on the Machine and thus leaving him, possibly forever? Ellie's reaction should have been to punch Joss' lights out, not look at him with weepy eyes of tenderness and gratitude. Why? Because her true life devotion was making contact with an ETI, not this pretty boy, New Age rhetoric-spouting preacher whom she slept with only once and barely knew before then. Maybe Joss thought he was in love with her, but the only real man in Ellie's life was long dead. Joss took away her one (at the time) chance at meeting ETI/Dad. Forget that Ellie would have been killed instead of Drumlin if she had won the seat the first time. Neither of them could predict that incident. Joss stole her dream for his own selfish reasons and that should have made Ellie madder than hell. Instead she looks at him with an expression of love which I have a hard time believing could ever exist between two characters who probably have little more than a physical attraction to each other. Hardly a reason to lose a goal like being the first person to contact an advanced alien civilization.