Anna's "Favorites" meme
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katallisonYou know, I did a version of this a couple of years back on my old blog, the archives of which are totally munged so I can't find whatever it was I wrote back then. So to some extent this is a dual exercise in memory.
--Twin Peaks: ah, my first fandom. Laura Palmer's body wrapped in plastic. Cooper with the map of Tibet and throwing the rocks at the bottles. Albert Rosenfeld. Good, good times.
--XF, Ice, the scene with Mulder and Scully in the storage room. First episode I saw, and I was hooked, hooked, hooked.
--Also, Paper Hearts, the scene at the end where Mulder knows he's been defeated again, and he leans against Scully's belly, laughing a little, exhausted, resigned; she holds him, staring off with a look of fear and grief; then she walks away, and he sits back, and the aetherial children's-choir voices swell.
--Also, Never Again, the last shot, M & S sitting there with that huge heavy unbreakable silence between them.
--Krycek and Mulder, in the cell in Tunguska. All that heat, all that rage, boxed into that small dark cell. Mmmmmmm.
--Highlander, the first time I saw Methos in The Messenger, sprawled across Duncan's bed in that dim gauzy half-light.
--Also, Courage, that hideous, painful, brutal fight between Duncan and Cullen, and Duncan's grief afterward.
--Also, Indiscretions, the whole damn thing, really, but especially Methos bluffing out the gunman, then shooting him dead, and walking forward with that little half-smile. Also, running that total mindfuck on Joe and explaining it with "I'm easily amused." Also, "Because I am very old and wise." Also--oh, hell, the whole frickin' episode.
--due South, Mountie on the Bounty, Ray punching Fraser, and then Fraser punching Ray, and in both scenes the grief, the pain, the sense of irreparable we-fucked-it-up-ness.
--Also, ICHBaD, Ray and Welsh in the shooutout, in the pouring rain, outgunned and desperate, with Brothers in Arms swelling on the soundtrack. And GftS, Ray and Welsh backing up Fraser against the bad guys--"We're good to go." Ray and Welsh allying and putting their necks on the line to save Fraser gives me large happiness.
--Also, teaser to Ladies Man, Ray just about to totally lose his shit and shoot the bad guy, pulled back from the edge by Fraser's "Look at me."
--Victoria's Secret, of course, for all the reasons others have stated with great eloquence. A two-hour-long gut-punch.
--Millennium, Somehow Satan Got Behind Me, a fantastic Darin Morgan episode, just as good as XF's Jose Chung but much less well-known.
--Nikita, the episode where Nikita discovers the sadistic serial killer is working for Section, and she tries to protect the young girl from him, only to discover that she actually set her up.
--Homicide, Black and Blue, Frank in the box getting a false confession out of a guy he knows is innocent.
--Hard Core Logo--the whole thing, but especially watching it for the first time in a hotel room at Escapade with Zen and nancy and Mairead Triste, and afterward staggering down to stand outside the lobby with them, chain-smoking and babbling and shaking and already starting to put together in my head the story that would eventually become Xeriscape.
That last should lead into an ancillary listing of "great fandom moments," but I'm outta time. Maybe later.
--Twin Peaks: ah, my first fandom. Laura Palmer's body wrapped in plastic. Cooper with the map of Tibet and throwing the rocks at the bottles. Albert Rosenfeld. Good, good times.
--XF, Ice, the scene with Mulder and Scully in the storage room. First episode I saw, and I was hooked, hooked, hooked.
--Also, Paper Hearts, the scene at the end where Mulder knows he's been defeated again, and he leans against Scully's belly, laughing a little, exhausted, resigned; she holds him, staring off with a look of fear and grief; then she walks away, and he sits back, and the aetherial children's-choir voices swell.
--Also, Never Again, the last shot, M & S sitting there with that huge heavy unbreakable silence between them.
--Krycek and Mulder, in the cell in Tunguska. All that heat, all that rage, boxed into that small dark cell. Mmmmmmm.
--Highlander, the first time I saw Methos in The Messenger, sprawled across Duncan's bed in that dim gauzy half-light.
--Also, Courage, that hideous, painful, brutal fight between Duncan and Cullen, and Duncan's grief afterward.
--Also, Indiscretions, the whole damn thing, really, but especially Methos bluffing out the gunman, then shooting him dead, and walking forward with that little half-smile. Also, running that total mindfuck on Joe and explaining it with "I'm easily amused." Also, "Because I am very old and wise." Also--oh, hell, the whole frickin' episode.
--due South, Mountie on the Bounty, Ray punching Fraser, and then Fraser punching Ray, and in both scenes the grief, the pain, the sense of irreparable we-fucked-it-up-ness.
--Also, ICHBaD, Ray and Welsh in the shooutout, in the pouring rain, outgunned and desperate, with Brothers in Arms swelling on the soundtrack. And GftS, Ray and Welsh backing up Fraser against the bad guys--"We're good to go." Ray and Welsh allying and putting their necks on the line to save Fraser gives me large happiness.
--Also, teaser to Ladies Man, Ray just about to totally lose his shit and shoot the bad guy, pulled back from the edge by Fraser's "Look at me."
--Victoria's Secret, of course, for all the reasons others have stated with great eloquence. A two-hour-long gut-punch.
--Millennium, Somehow Satan Got Behind Me, a fantastic Darin Morgan episode, just as good as XF's Jose Chung but much less well-known.
--Nikita, the episode where Nikita discovers the sadistic serial killer is working for Section, and she tries to protect the young girl from him, only to discover that she actually set her up.
--Homicide, Black and Blue, Frank in the box getting a false confession out of a guy he knows is innocent.
--Hard Core Logo--the whole thing, but especially watching it for the first time in a hotel room at Escapade with Zen and nancy and Mairead Triste, and afterward staggering down to stand outside the lobby with them, chain-smoking and babbling and shaking and already starting to put together in my head the story that would eventually become Xeriscape.
That last should lead into an ancillary listing of "great fandom moments," but I'm outta time. Maybe later.
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Date: 2003-10-10 06:39 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2003-10-10 07:10 am (UTC)And oh my, watching HCL for the first time with a group of serious fans just sounds like the most wonderous thing. That movie just demands to be watched with those who will appreciate it. I envy you madly.
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Date: 2003-10-11 04:13 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2003-10-10 07:47 am (UTC)Now I want to make a list of my own, except my memory sucks ...
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Date: 2003-10-11 04:09 pm (UTC)And the teasing-out of memory, in doing the list, is a neat activity in and of itself. I'm amazed at how much stuff I *don't* clearly remember, or have distorted in my head. One cool thing about LJ is that it would give one a way to notate one's "Holy shit!" moments as they occur (not that any shows are really giving me the "Holy shit!" moments these days, alas), and then in theory one could bookmark them in Memories. If one were mentally organized, that is, which I'm not...
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Date: 2003-10-10 09:39 am (UTC)Millenium
Date: 2003-10-10 11:21 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-10-11 04:05 pm (UTC)One of these days, I'm going to get my hands on tapes of the entire series (mine are hopelessly jumbled and incomplete) and sit down and rewatch it all, in order. I have a Millennium story I started years ago that I'd like to finish someday, and I have a feeling that it would be a marvellous show to vid.