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shadowkat(I swiped this from numerous folks on my flist. And trying to do it for a second time - tried earlier but got stuck on few questions, because I drew a complete blank. It's probably worth noting that I have watched way too much television in my lifetime and have most likely forgotten more tv shows than anyone else out there has actually watched.)
Day 01 - A show that never should have been cancelled :
Firefly - it had potential, ended up with a huge cult following, and a writing team that had established itself as building momentum as it went along. They should have given it at least two seasons before dropping the ax. And yes, it got a movie - but the movie felt tagged on. (Dollhouse - I wasn't that fond of, and don't believe would have been much better if it had gotten several seasons. Unlike Firefly - Fox saved Dollhouse. Having watched both? I think they should have saved Firefly and dumped Dollhouse. Or perhaps I should put it this way - I own Firefly on DVD (Xmas Gift), don't foresee that happening with Dollhouse. But mileage varies.)
Although a real close second might be - Profit and American Gothic.
Day 02 - A show you wish more people were watching :
The Good Wife - the only feminist show on tv and possibly the best legal procedural ever.
Well written. (Although - it is quite popular in the Nielsen ratings...just not on my flist for some bizarre reason.)
Day 03 - Your favorite new show (aired this TV season):
A tie between The Good Wife and Caprica. Both blew me away.
Day 04 - Your favorite show ever :
Well gosh, BtVS of course - it's the only one outside of M*A*S*H that I've watched over ten times. It's also the only one outside of MASH that I wrote anything substantial on.
Day 05 - A show you hate :
The Bachelor and The Bachelorette - can we say legitimatized prostitution? Yes, we can. (And no I don't watch them - I just see the commericials and people talk about them at work...eww.)
Day 06 - Favorite episode of your favorite TV show :
"Once More With Feeling" - amongst the few episodes that actually gave everyone in the cast something to do, developed all the characters, and plus - musical and I'm a sucker for musicals.
Day 07 - Least favorite episode of your favorite TV show :
Amends and Where the Wild Things Are (although WTWA at least had a sense of humor).
Day 08 - A show everyone should watch : "The Good Wife" and possibly "BTVS" (although that isn't going to be everyone's cup of tea), so The Good Wife.
Day 09 - Best scene ever : (I got stuck on this one last time because was hunting a scene that was not from BTVS. But the only scene I see when I get to this one is the church sequence at the very end of Beneath You. The whole episode is somewhat uneven -in writing, performance, and direction, some bits embarrassingly bad, but that last sequence is poetry and perfection. It haunts me and I can't watch that episode without rewinding five or six times.
The other scenes that stick in memory may be the Starbuck/Apollo boxing match in BSG - just for the controversial and gutsy dynamic of having a man and woman go at it - and the woman be an equal throughout.
Day 10 - A show you thought you wouldn't like but ended up loving (oh so many) - but I think Vampire Diaries may be the winner this year? I went into it, much the same way I went into Gossip Girl - kicking and screaming, convinced it was a silly teen show a la Twilight, with bad acting and bad writing - as it turned out? I couldn't be more wrong. Another one is Supernatural - which I also went into kicking and screaming - railing at it, yet it won me other with it's consistent writing and acting. MAD MEN is another example - I had decided I hated this show when I saw the pilot, but after my brother and everyone else raved about it - I gave it a second chance - and it is brilliant. Now my whole family watches it. Actually, it is most likely Mad Men - a show I was highly critical about to start, and did not like - yet later changed my mind.
Day 11 - A show that disappointed you : Sigh too many to count. Joan of Arcadia - it started out as brilliant but lost me before the second season aired. Now and Again - ditto. Both shows deserved their early cancellation. But, I think the winner in this category is most likely, Dollhouse - so much potential, yet in reality an uneven mess from start to finish. Whedon went the typical route - and failed to surprise. His characters while deliciously dark, seemed to go nowhere...and the ending peetered out. Perhaps if he'd cast a more emotive and capable actress in the lead role? OR spent less time exploring the well-worn territory of sexual violence and prostitution - which were far more subtly and far better explored in both Buffy and Angel. I don't know. Just that it failed to live up to expectations and in the end disappointed me. It's not a DVD I'll be owning and/or recommending. Leaving a bit of a gap in my Whedon collection.
Day 12 - An episode you've watched more than 5 times : Again too many to list. I've watched the entire series of Buffy more than five times. But if I had to list one episode? Probably Beneath You or Once More With Feeling. Also watched the entire series of MASH and most of Seinfield more than five times.
Day 13 - Favorite childhood show :
Ah, hard. From the age of 3-5 - it was Kimba, which few people knew about - until I moved back to the East Coast and then everyone I ran into immediately knew what I was talking about. So it clearly only aired on the east coast and in the 1970s.
From age of 6-9, it was The Monkees - I had a thing for short misunderstood heroes back then - Davey Jones and Kimba. I only got the autograph of Davy Jones though, Kimba doesn't exist although I do own two of the artists works on DVD - Howl's Moving Castle and Spirited Away.
Day 14 - Favorite male character : Spike. (I've thought about this recently, before I watched Buffy or basically the reason I watched Buffy was Anthony Stewart Head - who played Spikish type roles on stage in Chess and in VR5. I fell in love with Head. In interviews, Marsters stated that he basically copied Head's accent and mannerisms for Spike - he used Head as his template. In real life Head is actually a lot like Spike. And you can tell in interviews with the guy. The same irreverant sense of humor, and the same body movement, swagger. And before I fell for Head in the musical Chess - I was writing a character in a novel that was a lot like Spike. Half poet, half killer, half lover, half predator, half light, half dark...and moves like a dancer on dope. Hell, I've always had a weakness for bad poets and philosophers...with a quick and devilish wit. Spike also had one of the most interesting character arcs that I've seen on TV.)
Day 15 - Favorite female character : Difficult, more so than the above. I'd say Buffy, who I don't identify with at all. She took me outside of myself. Made it possible for me to care for a cheerleader - who up until Buffy - I hated on-screen. She also made it possible for me to like Gellar - who I violently disliked up to that point. The character caught me by surprise - I went into the show expecting to despise her and ended up falling in love with her. Few female characters have done that for me.
Aeryn Sun is another favorite - from Farscape. Although her arc did not end as satisfyingly for me as Buffy's - she became at the end Crichton's woman, not her own. Which is why Buffy stands apart from characters like Emma Peel, Olivia on Fringe, Xenia, Sydney Bristow, et all - she is the only one who did not allow herself to be defined by a man, become his sidekick or his wife or mother. She stood apart and became a leader. Took on a traditional male role and made it her own. She went from a character that I could not identify with to one that I totally did.
I can't think of any other female character on television that comes close to having her brilliant arc. Who was feminine and masculain, who could be a leader yet also feminine and "girly".
Day 16 - Your guilty pleasure show : General Hospital (yes, Daytime Soap Operas are my guilty pleasure and I tend to keep to myself - for fear of mocking. Also the fandom is batshit crazy.)
Day 17 - Favorite mini series : Lonesome Dove. It may be the best one acted and written - the first one, not the two sequels that came afterwards. But the fact that it had two sequels says something.
The Thorn Birds - was good, but it was miscast in places and sort of lost me in the middle. Rachel Ward was bit too hard for Meggie, or so I thought at the time. Rich Man Poor Man - I never really saw, and I missed the famous Roots - which changed TV. Lonseome Dove was not groundbreaking, if anything it was the last of the truly great miniseries, with the advent of cable - we've seen less of them.
Day 18 - Favorite title sequence : While Justified is admirable - it borrows heavily from True Blood who did the same thing first - those may be the only shows that still do title sequences. They are few and far between now - due to DVD's. People realized how annoying it is to see a title sequence at the start of every episode on DVD. The only one that doesn't annoy me after five or six viewings of it - and I actually look forward to? Is True Blood - whose title sequence in some respects was even better than some of the season one episodes...kudos. Deliciously dark and textured, with great metaphors regarding sexual depravity and how we judge and view each other.
Day 19 - Best TV show cast : It's not an easy choice, Buffy was close, but I was not overly fond of Boreanze or Carpenter, so it had to get nixed. Am tempted to go with BSG - but, it is a) over, and b) did have weak points. Caprica? Same deal, it has strengths and weaknesses. So, I'll probably go with The Good Wife - as the best tv show cast right now. It certainly qualifies. There is no actor, not one, that hasn't delivered a pitch perfect performance. Although, Friday Night Light's is a close second with an equally pitch perfect cast.
Day 20 - Favorite kiss : Hmmm, I'd have to go with Tabula Rasa Spike and Buffy kissing sequence - subtle, and perfectly shot. They tried to do the same thing at the end of Lost between two characters - but it wasn't quite as well done. This one worked, because of the mislead, and how the camera with the music slowly twisted around to show us the desperate kissing. Desperate, needy, and forbidden.
Day 21 - Favorite ship : Hmmm. Let's break them down. Aeryn Sun/Crichton was the only one that ended happily - but it ended with Aeryn capitulating to Crichton, so lost some of the delicious friction that made it great. Juliet/Sawyer was most likely the most tragic yet at the end happy - also the two characters remained their own person, equal, neither really capitulating, and both redeemed by their love for each other - which took it a step above. Yet it got little screen time, since they were largely supporting. Starbuck/Apollo in BSG was frustration personified - equals, but better friends than lovers - in a way, I loved them for the same reasons I liked the platonic friendships between Lock/Ben and Spike/Angel. River Song/Doctor Who was also a tragic story that has yet to be told - so the jury is out on that one.
Which leaves me with Buffy and Spike - while ultimately frustrating, it was also in some respects the most interesting - neither character completely capitulates, trust is earned over time, and after it was lost, forgiveness is at the center of it, and the gender roles are twisted inside and out. It was perhaps, like Starbuck and Apollo the most subversive and as a result most controversial.
Day 22 - Favorite series finale : I'm not sure I have one. Newart was by far the funniest, but at the same time I felt it cheapened the other characters and story - was a gimmick. St. Elsewhere's ditto - for doing more or less the same thing. BSG's was a bit too orchestrated for my taste - while I did not hate it, I did not love it either. Lost? Ditto. Buffy - it worked intellectually but not emotionally - I was left hanging in some respects, wanting more.
MASH - felt over-long and bit smuchly. Cheers - was not memorable. Seinfield - unwatchable.
ER - was actually satisfying and enjoyable - that final season was by far amongst its best.
But favorite? Farscape - the movie felt rushed. Angel - I enjoyed it, but again, wanted more story - felt like I was left hanging. So, no, I don't have a favorite finale. TV shows tend to not do good finals - it seems to go against the format. For a television series is really about the journey not the destination. And often the finale when it comes feels tacked on.
Day 23 - Most annoying character : Michael in The Office - I can't watch The Office, particularly the British version - the boss has the exact same mannerisms as an evil serial bullying boss. (Others? Ferkle - his voice made me crazy. Tony Danza in Whose the Boss? Rachel in Friends (yes, in the minority on that one). Andrew in Buffy - drove me nuts in S7.)
Day 24 - Best quote : You listen to me. [Kneels in front of her] I've been alive a bit longer than you, and dead a lot longer than that. I've seen things you couldn't imagine, and done things I prefer you didn't. I don't exactly have a reputation for being a thinker. I follow my blood, which doesn't exactly rush in the direction of my brain. So I make a lot of mistakes, a lot of wrong bloody calls. A hundred plus years, and there's only one thing I've ever been sure of: you. [Buffy looks away; he reaches toward her face] Hey, look at me. I'm not asking you for anything. When I say, "I love you," it's not because I want you or because I can't have you. It has nothing to do with me. I love what you are, what you do, how you try. I've seen your kindness and your strength. I've seen the best and the worst of you. And I understand with perfect clarity exactly what you are. You're a hell of a woman. You're the one, Buffy. May not be the best but it's pretty damn good.
There are others, but that may be my favorite. My other one is from Beneath You - the poetic soliquey by Spike at the end - asking Can We Rest, Buffy, Can we Rest.
I honestly don't remember speeches well - I swiped the above fully quoted one from Petzipellingo.
One of my favorite lines is "if my heart could beat it would break my chest" - cracks me up every time.
Day 25 - A show you plan on watching (old or new): Glee - on Tuesday night and is officially my new happy show. It never fails to entertain in some small way.
Day 26 - OMG WTF? Season finale : Quantum Leap. Although there are others...such as Twin Peaks, which lost me, and Flashforward - which felt rushed, Dollhouse - also made little sense and felt cobbled together.
Day 27 - Best pilot episode : Battle Star Galatica's 33 minutes - flawless. But okay may not count because of the miniseries. So, perhaps - Twin Peaks? It changed TV forever.
Day 28 - First TV show obsession : Kimba
Day 29 - Current TV show obsession : I don't really have one. Honestly. I can live if any of these shows disappear. The closest? May be...General Hospital - but that's only because it gives me something to discuss with Momster on the phone that has zip to do with health, work, or finding apartments. That and I'm in love with the character of Dante - an under-cover cop who just discovered he was the son of the mobster he's trying to take down. A stress-free topic. We also discuss and analyze The Good Wife, Mad Men, Brothers and Sisters, Grey's Anatomy, and Merlin. But I'm not really obsessed. I don't keep the episodes, don't re-watch.
And you can't buy daytime soaps on DVD, as far as I know - if you could, it would break me.
Plus I get annoyed eventually with the storyline and lose interest, then drift back again.
So no - no obsessions. The only tv show I've been obsessed with in the last 30 years is Buffy.
Prior to that? I had deep flirtations, but nothing that was a true obsession. One fandom for me, I'm afraid. Once that wanes for me...I'll be without.
Day 30 - Saddest character death : At the moment? Juliet on Lost. I was so annoyed. But of characters that died and never returned in any fashion? Drawing a blank at the moment. Okay, have to say Joyce in the Body - that episode makes me cry buckets every time I watch it, no matter what. I'm sure if I thought about it - I could think of someone else. Lost and Buffy had the worst character deaths. They beat out BSG in that department. Angel? I never cared enough about the characters...but Wes' death seemed to be the saddest by far for me. I cared a lot about Wes.
Day 01 - A show that never should have been cancelled :
Firefly - it had potential, ended up with a huge cult following, and a writing team that had established itself as building momentum as it went along. They should have given it at least two seasons before dropping the ax. And yes, it got a movie - but the movie felt tagged on. (Dollhouse - I wasn't that fond of, and don't believe would have been much better if it had gotten several seasons. Unlike Firefly - Fox saved Dollhouse. Having watched both? I think they should have saved Firefly and dumped Dollhouse. Or perhaps I should put it this way - I own Firefly on DVD (Xmas Gift), don't foresee that happening with Dollhouse. But mileage varies.)
Although a real close second might be - Profit and American Gothic.
Day 02 - A show you wish more people were watching :
The Good Wife - the only feminist show on tv and possibly the best legal procedural ever.
Well written. (Although - it is quite popular in the Nielsen ratings...just not on my flist for some bizarre reason.)
Day 03 - Your favorite new show (aired this TV season):
A tie between The Good Wife and Caprica. Both blew me away.
Day 04 - Your favorite show ever :
Well gosh, BtVS of course - it's the only one outside of M*A*S*H that I've watched over ten times. It's also the only one outside of MASH that I wrote anything substantial on.
Day 05 - A show you hate :
The Bachelor and The Bachelorette - can we say legitimatized prostitution? Yes, we can. (And no I don't watch them - I just see the commericials and people talk about them at work...eww.)
Day 06 - Favorite episode of your favorite TV show :
"Once More With Feeling" - amongst the few episodes that actually gave everyone in the cast something to do, developed all the characters, and plus - musical and I'm a sucker for musicals.
Day 07 - Least favorite episode of your favorite TV show :
Amends and Where the Wild Things Are (although WTWA at least had a sense of humor).
Day 08 - A show everyone should watch : "The Good Wife" and possibly "BTVS" (although that isn't going to be everyone's cup of tea), so The Good Wife.
Day 09 - Best scene ever : (I got stuck on this one last time because was hunting a scene that was not from BTVS. But the only scene I see when I get to this one is the church sequence at the very end of Beneath You. The whole episode is somewhat uneven -in writing, performance, and direction, some bits embarrassingly bad, but that last sequence is poetry and perfection. It haunts me and I can't watch that episode without rewinding five or six times.
The other scenes that stick in memory may be the Starbuck/Apollo boxing match in BSG - just for the controversial and gutsy dynamic of having a man and woman go at it - and the woman be an equal throughout.
Day 10 - A show you thought you wouldn't like but ended up loving (oh so many) - but I think Vampire Diaries may be the winner this year? I went into it, much the same way I went into Gossip Girl - kicking and screaming, convinced it was a silly teen show a la Twilight, with bad acting and bad writing - as it turned out? I couldn't be more wrong. Another one is Supernatural - which I also went into kicking and screaming - railing at it, yet it won me other with it's consistent writing and acting. MAD MEN is another example - I had decided I hated this show when I saw the pilot, but after my brother and everyone else raved about it - I gave it a second chance - and it is brilliant. Now my whole family watches it. Actually, it is most likely Mad Men - a show I was highly critical about to start, and did not like - yet later changed my mind.
Day 11 - A show that disappointed you : Sigh too many to count. Joan of Arcadia - it started out as brilliant but lost me before the second season aired. Now and Again - ditto. Both shows deserved their early cancellation. But, I think the winner in this category is most likely, Dollhouse - so much potential, yet in reality an uneven mess from start to finish. Whedon went the typical route - and failed to surprise. His characters while deliciously dark, seemed to go nowhere...and the ending peetered out. Perhaps if he'd cast a more emotive and capable actress in the lead role? OR spent less time exploring the well-worn territory of sexual violence and prostitution - which were far more subtly and far better explored in both Buffy and Angel. I don't know. Just that it failed to live up to expectations and in the end disappointed me. It's not a DVD I'll be owning and/or recommending. Leaving a bit of a gap in my Whedon collection.
Day 12 - An episode you've watched more than 5 times : Again too many to list. I've watched the entire series of Buffy more than five times. But if I had to list one episode? Probably Beneath You or Once More With Feeling. Also watched the entire series of MASH and most of Seinfield more than five times.
Day 13 - Favorite childhood show :
Ah, hard. From the age of 3-5 - it was Kimba, which few people knew about - until I moved back to the East Coast and then everyone I ran into immediately knew what I was talking about. So it clearly only aired on the east coast and in the 1970s.
From age of 6-9, it was The Monkees - I had a thing for short misunderstood heroes back then - Davey Jones and Kimba. I only got the autograph of Davy Jones though, Kimba doesn't exist although I do own two of the artists works on DVD - Howl's Moving Castle and Spirited Away.
Day 14 - Favorite male character : Spike. (I've thought about this recently, before I watched Buffy or basically the reason I watched Buffy was Anthony Stewart Head - who played Spikish type roles on stage in Chess and in VR5. I fell in love with Head. In interviews, Marsters stated that he basically copied Head's accent and mannerisms for Spike - he used Head as his template. In real life Head is actually a lot like Spike. And you can tell in interviews with the guy. The same irreverant sense of humor, and the same body movement, swagger. And before I fell for Head in the musical Chess - I was writing a character in a novel that was a lot like Spike. Half poet, half killer, half lover, half predator, half light, half dark...and moves like a dancer on dope. Hell, I've always had a weakness for bad poets and philosophers...with a quick and devilish wit. Spike also had one of the most interesting character arcs that I've seen on TV.)
Day 15 - Favorite female character : Difficult, more so than the above. I'd say Buffy, who I don't identify with at all. She took me outside of myself. Made it possible for me to care for a cheerleader - who up until Buffy - I hated on-screen. She also made it possible for me to like Gellar - who I violently disliked up to that point. The character caught me by surprise - I went into the show expecting to despise her and ended up falling in love with her. Few female characters have done that for me.
Aeryn Sun is another favorite - from Farscape. Although her arc did not end as satisfyingly for me as Buffy's - she became at the end Crichton's woman, not her own. Which is why Buffy stands apart from characters like Emma Peel, Olivia on Fringe, Xenia, Sydney Bristow, et all - she is the only one who did not allow herself to be defined by a man, become his sidekick or his wife or mother. She stood apart and became a leader. Took on a traditional male role and made it her own. She went from a character that I could not identify with to one that I totally did.
I can't think of any other female character on television that comes close to having her brilliant arc. Who was feminine and masculain, who could be a leader yet also feminine and "girly".
Day 16 - Your guilty pleasure show : General Hospital (yes, Daytime Soap Operas are my guilty pleasure and I tend to keep to myself - for fear of mocking. Also the fandom is batshit crazy.)
Day 17 - Favorite mini series : Lonesome Dove. It may be the best one acted and written - the first one, not the two sequels that came afterwards. But the fact that it had two sequels says something.
The Thorn Birds - was good, but it was miscast in places and sort of lost me in the middle. Rachel Ward was bit too hard for Meggie, or so I thought at the time. Rich Man Poor Man - I never really saw, and I missed the famous Roots - which changed TV. Lonseome Dove was not groundbreaking, if anything it was the last of the truly great miniseries, with the advent of cable - we've seen less of them.
Day 18 - Favorite title sequence : While Justified is admirable - it borrows heavily from True Blood who did the same thing first - those may be the only shows that still do title sequences. They are few and far between now - due to DVD's. People realized how annoying it is to see a title sequence at the start of every episode on DVD. The only one that doesn't annoy me after five or six viewings of it - and I actually look forward to? Is True Blood - whose title sequence in some respects was even better than some of the season one episodes...kudos. Deliciously dark and textured, with great metaphors regarding sexual depravity and how we judge and view each other.
Day 19 - Best TV show cast : It's not an easy choice, Buffy was close, but I was not overly fond of Boreanze or Carpenter, so it had to get nixed. Am tempted to go with BSG - but, it is a) over, and b) did have weak points. Caprica? Same deal, it has strengths and weaknesses. So, I'll probably go with The Good Wife - as the best tv show cast right now. It certainly qualifies. There is no actor, not one, that hasn't delivered a pitch perfect performance. Although, Friday Night Light's is a close second with an equally pitch perfect cast.
Day 20 - Favorite kiss : Hmmm, I'd have to go with Tabula Rasa Spike and Buffy kissing sequence - subtle, and perfectly shot. They tried to do the same thing at the end of Lost between two characters - but it wasn't quite as well done. This one worked, because of the mislead, and how the camera with the music slowly twisted around to show us the desperate kissing. Desperate, needy, and forbidden.
Day 21 - Favorite ship : Hmmm. Let's break them down. Aeryn Sun/Crichton was the only one that ended happily - but it ended with Aeryn capitulating to Crichton, so lost some of the delicious friction that made it great. Juliet/Sawyer was most likely the most tragic yet at the end happy - also the two characters remained their own person, equal, neither really capitulating, and both redeemed by their love for each other - which took it a step above. Yet it got little screen time, since they were largely supporting. Starbuck/Apollo in BSG was frustration personified - equals, but better friends than lovers - in a way, I loved them for the same reasons I liked the platonic friendships between Lock/Ben and Spike/Angel. River Song/Doctor Who was also a tragic story that has yet to be told - so the jury is out on that one.
Which leaves me with Buffy and Spike - while ultimately frustrating, it was also in some respects the most interesting - neither character completely capitulates, trust is earned over time, and after it was lost, forgiveness is at the center of it, and the gender roles are twisted inside and out. It was perhaps, like Starbuck and Apollo the most subversive and as a result most controversial.
Day 22 - Favorite series finale : I'm not sure I have one. Newart was by far the funniest, but at the same time I felt it cheapened the other characters and story - was a gimmick. St. Elsewhere's ditto - for doing more or less the same thing. BSG's was a bit too orchestrated for my taste - while I did not hate it, I did not love it either. Lost? Ditto. Buffy - it worked intellectually but not emotionally - I was left hanging in some respects, wanting more.
MASH - felt over-long and bit smuchly. Cheers - was not memorable. Seinfield - unwatchable.
ER - was actually satisfying and enjoyable - that final season was by far amongst its best.
But favorite? Farscape - the movie felt rushed. Angel - I enjoyed it, but again, wanted more story - felt like I was left hanging. So, no, I don't have a favorite finale. TV shows tend to not do good finals - it seems to go against the format. For a television series is really about the journey not the destination. And often the finale when it comes feels tacked on.
Day 23 - Most annoying character : Michael in The Office - I can't watch The Office, particularly the British version - the boss has the exact same mannerisms as an evil serial bullying boss. (Others? Ferkle - his voice made me crazy. Tony Danza in Whose the Boss? Rachel in Friends (yes, in the minority on that one). Andrew in Buffy - drove me nuts in S7.)
Day 24 - Best quote : You listen to me. [Kneels in front of her] I've been alive a bit longer than you, and dead a lot longer than that. I've seen things you couldn't imagine, and done things I prefer you didn't. I don't exactly have a reputation for being a thinker. I follow my blood, which doesn't exactly rush in the direction of my brain. So I make a lot of mistakes, a lot of wrong bloody calls. A hundred plus years, and there's only one thing I've ever been sure of: you. [Buffy looks away; he reaches toward her face] Hey, look at me. I'm not asking you for anything. When I say, "I love you," it's not because I want you or because I can't have you. It has nothing to do with me. I love what you are, what you do, how you try. I've seen your kindness and your strength. I've seen the best and the worst of you. And I understand with perfect clarity exactly what you are. You're a hell of a woman. You're the one, Buffy. May not be the best but it's pretty damn good.
There are others, but that may be my favorite. My other one is from Beneath You - the poetic soliquey by Spike at the end - asking Can We Rest, Buffy, Can we Rest.
I honestly don't remember speeches well - I swiped the above fully quoted one from Petzipellingo.
One of my favorite lines is "if my heart could beat it would break my chest" - cracks me up every time.
Day 25 - A show you plan on watching (old or new): Glee - on Tuesday night and is officially my new happy show. It never fails to entertain in some small way.
Day 26 - OMG WTF? Season finale : Quantum Leap. Although there are others...such as Twin Peaks, which lost me, and Flashforward - which felt rushed, Dollhouse - also made little sense and felt cobbled together.
Day 27 - Best pilot episode : Battle Star Galatica's 33 minutes - flawless. But okay may not count because of the miniseries. So, perhaps - Twin Peaks? It changed TV forever.
Day 28 - First TV show obsession : Kimba
Day 29 - Current TV show obsession : I don't really have one. Honestly. I can live if any of these shows disappear. The closest? May be...General Hospital - but that's only because it gives me something to discuss with Momster on the phone that has zip to do with health, work, or finding apartments. That and I'm in love with the character of Dante - an under-cover cop who just discovered he was the son of the mobster he's trying to take down. A stress-free topic. We also discuss and analyze The Good Wife, Mad Men, Brothers and Sisters, Grey's Anatomy, and Merlin. But I'm not really obsessed. I don't keep the episodes, don't re-watch.
And you can't buy daytime soaps on DVD, as far as I know - if you could, it would break me.
Plus I get annoyed eventually with the storyline and lose interest, then drift back again.
So no - no obsessions. The only tv show I've been obsessed with in the last 30 years is Buffy.
Prior to that? I had deep flirtations, but nothing that was a true obsession. One fandom for me, I'm afraid. Once that wanes for me...I'll be without.
Day 30 - Saddest character death : At the moment? Juliet on Lost. I was so annoyed. But of characters that died and never returned in any fashion? Drawing a blank at the moment. Okay, have to say Joyce in the Body - that episode makes me cry buckets every time I watch it, no matter what. I'm sure if I thought about it - I could think of someone else. Lost and Buffy had the worst character deaths. They beat out BSG in that department. Angel? I never cared enough about the characters...but Wes' death seemed to be the saddest by far for me. I cared a lot about Wes.
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Date: 2010-06-01 07:49 pm (UTC)And somewhere (not here, on another thread?) you mentioned you enjoyed Ironman2, which made me very happy... and even happier to know that you stayed through the credits for the little teaser scene at the end (so much fun)!
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Date: 2010-06-02 12:39 am (UTC)Showtime or HBO.
Yep, mentioned the Iron Man bit on Five Things Before Bed post.
It was enjoyable - more so than the first one in my opinion. CW, G and I all enjoyed it. Although I had to explain the teaser at the end to the people I saw it with - they were clueless. ;-)