Okay, here's my list of awesome female characters:

1. Toph Bei Fong
2. Cordelia Chase
3. Kalinda Sharma
4. Wendy Watson
5. Diana Barrigan
6. Kaylee Frye
7. Katara of the Southern Water Tribe
8. Lorelai Gilmore
9. Olivia Dunham
10. Original Cindy McEachin
11. Renee Montoya
12. Kara "Starbuck" Thrace
13. CJ Cregg
14. Ellen Harvelle
15. Astrid Farnsworth

and here are my answers to your questions!

What does Katara think of Kara?
Katara thinks Kara is reckless and dangerous and completely crazy, but she sure knows how to fight, and she's glad Kara's fighting on her side, even if she doesn't understand what a Cylon is or how people could be made of metal. She makes Toph check out everyone they meet, though, just in case.

Cordelia, Kaylee, and Original Cindy get drunk together. Who brings what and why, and what chaos ensues?
They meet in the shops on Persephone. Cordy has gotten used to thrifting, but she's not thrilled about second-hand shoes. Original Cindy tells her to suck it up and deal, because she can't afford a new pair of boots at retail prices and look at the selection! Cordy and Cindy help Kaylee pick out a fancy dress that's slightly less layer-cakey because Simon is taking her to the opera, and she wants to look pretty. Shopping is thirsty work, though, so they stop off at a bar and charm the bartender into making the pinkest, girliest drinks he knows how to make, complete with little paper umbrellas, which Kaylee tucks away into her coverall pockets. She finds them in the morning when she sobers up, and puts them up in her bunk. Meanwhile, Original Cindy gets accused of hustling pool and in the ensuing fight, the bar is destroyed. But Cordelia takes home the cute martini glass that didn't break when she whacked some guy over the head with it.

Ellen is writing a book. What's it about? And what happens when she asks Kalinda and Olivia to critique it?
Ellen's writing a book about running a bar for hunters of the supernatural. Kalinda thinks it's fictional and makes all sorts of notes about how none of these people would last a day in the real world, because they leave fingerprints and DNA evidence all over the place, but that the use of urban myths is quite compelling. Olivia knows that a lot of this stuff exists, so she basically critiques the hunters' strategy, because busting in guns blazing is how you get yourself killed.

When she gets to the chapters about the Winchesters, she hands the manuscript back to Ellen and says she can't read anymore or she'll have to take Ellen in as an accessory to their various crimes. Still, she smiles when she sees the dedication to her when the book is finally published.

Toph and Lorelai are framed for murder, why? And how does CJ get them off?
CJ calls Sam because he's the best lawyer she knows, even though he is not a defense lawyer. Sam tells her to call Ainsley. Between them, Ainsley talks the DA into dropping the charges. Lorelai can't believe there's anyone in the universe who talks faster and drinks more caffeine than she does. Toph looks sweet and innocent and pretends to be helpless. CJ takes two advil and tells Lorelai she's changing her phone number – one night stands should not call on you to bail them out of jail! – but she never does. She secretly likes being Lorelai's number one call when she's in trouble.

Cordelia and Olivia are opponents in an election, and Katara and Kara are their campaign managers.
Cordelia campaigns on shiny hair and the promise of a bright new day. Katara makes sure all the ads are upbeat but honest. Olivia fires Kara when Kara suggests they steal the election because she's too mopey to win the hearts and minds of the voters, despite being compassionate and well-informed on issues. Neither of them wins – despite Olivia being a crack shot FBI agent who is tough on crime – because they're both too honest about the weird stuff that happens that most people would like to pretend doesn't exist.

Renee and Ellen are buddy cops. They're trying to solve a case, and they think either Cordelia, Wendy, or Kaylee committed the crime. What's the problem, and how does Kalinda's eyewitness report change things?
Ellen knows that you can't trust a damn thing Kalinda says, because she's all about playing the angles and making things look as good as possible for Lockhart/Gardner's clients, even though Cordelia is apparently represented by Wolfram & Hart, which gives Ellen the creeps. She remembers that they tried to recruit Sam Winchester out of Stanford, and wonders how deeply demonic the whole place is.

Kalinda spends a lot of time flirting subtly with Renee, who desperately wants to get in Kalinda's pants but knows better than to do so while she's a witness on a case they are working.

Wendy reveals to Ellen that she can't actually be guilty of murder because that means the thing she beheaded would have had to have been alive in the first place, and vampires are not. Legally, they don't even exist. Cordelia points out that a pile of dust does not a body make, and anyway, it's a public service to stake vampires. Ellen refrains from pointing out that that is not how you kill vampires and instead insists they don't exist while Cordy rolls her eyes and demands to see her lawyer. River rescues Kaylee from jail before Ellen and Renee can interrogate her.

A call from O2STK makes the whole case disappear, so Kalinda takes Renee out for a drink and they hit it off ridiculously well and have a lot of really hot sex.

As an aside, how much ass would Ellen Harvelle and Renee Montoya kick if they partnered on cases? Oh my god, the bad guys would not stand a chance. And the hotness of Renee/Kalinda would be off the charts.

Toph, Diana and Lorelai need money to pay the next month's rent. What do they do?
Despite Diana's strenuous objections, Toph gets herself and Lorelai invited to an underground casino, where she metalbends the roulette wheel until she's got the next three months covered while Lorelai distracts everyone with her chatter and her cleavage. When she's done, she and Lorelai walk out, and Diana, Peter and Jones storm in and close the place down.

Cordelia, Kaylee, Astrid, and Olivia are a well-known string quartet, and CJ is their manager. How do they handle going on an international tour?
Wow, that is one well-dressed, well-organized, and well-publicized string quartet. Plus, Astrid stress bakes and Kaylee makes moonshine, so they're always well-stocked with goodies and never have to resort to paying the outrageous hotel minibar prices.

Ellen is roped into quilting a wedding quilt for Cordelia and Kalinda by Kara.
Pfft. Ellen knows Kara is bullshitting her because if there are any two people less likely than Cordelia and Kalinda to be interested in a homely hand-crafted wedding quilt, she hasn't met them (yes, that includes Winchesters). They're registered at Neiman Marcus for some ridiculously high thread-count Egyptian cotton sheets and a silk and down duvet.

Toph, Wendy, Diana, Katara and Olivia are a Leverage-style band of do-gooder criminals. Who is the hacker/hitter/grifter/thief/mastermind of the group?
That's a lot of law enforcement turning to crime! Um. Wendy is the hitter, having been trained by Sensei Ping. Diana is the hacker - her FBI connections come in super handy. Katara is the thief, though she is very good in a fight. Toph wants to be the hitter, but is actually the grifter, mostly because Olivia and Diana can't quite grasp the fact that the little blind girl is a powerhouse until they've seen her in action a few times. But they like to hold her in reserve in fights because she's much more useful as a grifter (see also, nobody believes the little blind girl is actually conning them). Which leaves Olivia to be the mastermind. She's very good at seeing patterns and putting them together, and she understands how people work, and is very compassionate, so it all works out.

How would Katara and CJ react to being body-swapped with each other?
Katara would enjoy being tall, but she would be freaked out that she couldn't waterbend, and also, she would wonder why everybody referred to everything as "the thing" and not know which thing was being referred to. Having dealt with Sokka, Aang, and Zuko has prepared her for Josh, Sam, and Toby's shenanigans, though, so that part is familiar. CJ would enjoy being 16 again, even if it meant being short. She'd be weirded out by the waterbending at first, but once she got the hang of it, she'd have a great time pranking everyone she knows.

Man, this meme is never not fun.

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