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potentiality_26Best scene ever
This is a pretty terrible question. I mean maybe- maybe- I could put together a list with my favorite scene from every show I've ever loved, but then we'd be here forever, so I won't. I do not have an absolute favorite scene, so I'm just going to do a favorite scene from the five shows I've already mentioned, and call it good. These might not really be my number one favorites from those shows, and they certainly aren't really my top five scenes ever ever, but hey- what can you do?
Profit: The scene where Jim visits Bobbi in the hospital in "Forgiveness." Okay, this one probably is in my top favorite favorite scenes ever. This scene is poetry. This scene is gold. I love Jim's voice-over at the beginning, his lines about how she'll recover with loving support of her family and the deliciously evil contrast it forms with what he actually does when he gets her alone- but on a deeper level, it's so representative of Jim as a person. He's all about appearances and putting on a good show, but more than that- he's a man who has to put on a happy face even in his own head. Their conversation is snappy and sharp, and Jim's "This is America" speech is so fantastic. Being at its core a show about the dark side of the American dream, Profit gets a lot of millage out of the concept- and this is a perfect example.
The Murdoch Mysteries: The scene in morgue from "Convalescence," I believe. The current murder victim is missing a finger, and Julia- the medical examiner- has found it in his stomach contents. Yeah, it's gross, but there's always something weirdly infectious about Julia's morbid glee when something like this happens. This scene is such a great example of why I love her.
The Blacklist: I'm not sure whether this counts as a scene in the strictest sense of the term, but Red's sequence at the beginning of "The Good Samaritan Killer" is too brilliant not to mention. I've seen a lot of bad examples of musical montages in TV- I'm looking at you, Person of Interest- but the use of "The Man Comes Around" here is pitch perfect.
The Wild Wild West: The scene with Jim and Artie getting dressed in "The Night of the Circus of Death." This show is notorious among slash fans for having sequences where Jim and Artie are getting dressed when there was little to no reason for them to have not been dressed; in a period where writers showed viewers that Captain Kirk had slept with alien babe of the week by having him putting his boots on after, this can always be read as suggestive. I love it whenever it happens, but I had to single out one. Artie is changing out of a disguise, so he was an excuse; so does Jim, on the surface. He's fiddling with his derringer, making sure the track is oiled nicely- and no, Dr. Freud, I didn't have to work too hard formulating that sentence- it sort of just got dropped in my lap. It just really looks like Artie's disguises make Jim horny, and he just had to tear his clothes off, and this is the result.
Orphan Black: Allison and Felix's scene after her neighborhood 'intervention' in "Unconscious Selection." I love these two, and this is such a funny, fascinating scene. The fact that he was the only she would let in, and his little pep-talk, her closing line and their smiles into the mirror- it's all just so wonderful, especially given that she looked at him like something she scrapped off her shoe when they first met.
Now, I also wanted to add a question: Best story arc
It's also hard, but I have a couple that I wanted to highlight, and looking ahead I couldn't find any question that could give me a good chance to. I'm tagging it onto the scenes question because some of the favorite scenes I'd thought of initially were only as good as they were because of the build of the story arc around them.
Stargate: SG-1: I love a lot of SG-1's story arcs, but one of my favorites is the set of episodes featuring the Unas. I love how the Unas started out as one nigh invincible villain no one cared about except in terms of how to finally kill it. Then they turned out to be a whole species, and Daniel- being Daniel- found a way to learn their language and start a peace process with them. And then later, on a world with humans and Unas' they turned out to be the more human.
Trauma: Profit narrowly beat Trauma out as the show I feel was most heinously killed before its time, and this gives me a great chance to talk about it. A show about three two-person teams of medics in San Francisco, Trauma was wonderful. Though I loved all the characters, Tyler Briggs was my favorite- a jittery, sports-loving, energy-drink-addicted EMT with a chip on his shoulder the size of his home state of Louisiana and a lot of abandonment issues; he was also gay. His coming-out arc was, in my opinion, the best coming-out arc in television. The total lack of homophobia on a show like Warehouse 13 is heartwarming and sweet- but Trauma was brilliant. Tyler's medic partner Boone is a very religious, very homophobic man who nevertheless decides that he isn't going to care any less about his best friend now that he knows he's gay than he did before. Watching him struggle with and eventually put his prejudices behind him- so much so that he's the one who later talks Tyler through coming out to his parents, who he never thought would accept him- is deeply moving.
Day 01 - A show that should never have been canceled
Day 02 - A show that needs more viewers
Day 03 - Your favorite new show (aired THIS TV season)
Day 04 - Your favorite show
Day 05 - A show you hate
Day 06 - Favorite episode of your favorite TV show
Day 07 - Least favorite episode of your favorite TV show
Day 08 - A show everyone should watch
Day 09 - Best scene ever
Day 10 - A show you thought you wouldn’t like but ended up loving
Day 11 - A show that disappointed you
Day 12 - An episode you’ve watched more than 5 times
Day 13 - Favorite childhood show
Day 14 - Favorite male character
Day 15 - Favorite female character
Day 16 - Your guilty pleasure show
Day 17 - Favorite mini series
Day 18 - Favorite title sequence
Day 19 - Best TV show cast
Day 20 - Favorite kiss
Day 21 - Favorite ship
Day 22 - Favorite series finale
Day 23 - Most annoying character
Day 24 - Best quote
Day 25 - A show you plan on watching (old or new)
Day 26 - OMG WTF? Season finale
Day 27 - Best pilot episode
Day 28 - First TV show obsession
Day 29 - Current TV show obsession
Day 30 - Saddest character death
This is a pretty terrible question. I mean maybe- maybe- I could put together a list with my favorite scene from every show I've ever loved, but then we'd be here forever, so I won't. I do not have an absolute favorite scene, so I'm just going to do a favorite scene from the five shows I've already mentioned, and call it good. These might not really be my number one favorites from those shows, and they certainly aren't really my top five scenes ever ever, but hey- what can you do?
Profit: The scene where Jim visits Bobbi in the hospital in "Forgiveness." Okay, this one probably is in my top favorite favorite scenes ever. This scene is poetry. This scene is gold. I love Jim's voice-over at the beginning, his lines about how she'll recover with loving support of her family and the deliciously evil contrast it forms with what he actually does when he gets her alone- but on a deeper level, it's so representative of Jim as a person. He's all about appearances and putting on a good show, but more than that- he's a man who has to put on a happy face even in his own head. Their conversation is snappy and sharp, and Jim's "This is America" speech is so fantastic. Being at its core a show about the dark side of the American dream, Profit gets a lot of millage out of the concept- and this is a perfect example.
The Murdoch Mysteries: The scene in morgue from "Convalescence," I believe. The current murder victim is missing a finger, and Julia- the medical examiner- has found it in his stomach contents. Yeah, it's gross, but there's always something weirdly infectious about Julia's morbid glee when something like this happens. This scene is such a great example of why I love her.
The Blacklist: I'm not sure whether this counts as a scene in the strictest sense of the term, but Red's sequence at the beginning of "The Good Samaritan Killer" is too brilliant not to mention. I've seen a lot of bad examples of musical montages in TV- I'm looking at you, Person of Interest- but the use of "The Man Comes Around" here is pitch perfect.
The Wild Wild West: The scene with Jim and Artie getting dressed in "The Night of the Circus of Death." This show is notorious among slash fans for having sequences where Jim and Artie are getting dressed when there was little to no reason for them to have not been dressed; in a period where writers showed viewers that Captain Kirk had slept with alien babe of the week by having him putting his boots on after, this can always be read as suggestive. I love it whenever it happens, but I had to single out one. Artie is changing out of a disguise, so he was an excuse; so does Jim, on the surface. He's fiddling with his derringer, making sure the track is oiled nicely- and no, Dr. Freud, I didn't have to work too hard formulating that sentence- it sort of just got dropped in my lap. It just really looks like Artie's disguises make Jim horny, and he just had to tear his clothes off, and this is the result.
Orphan Black: Allison and Felix's scene after her neighborhood 'intervention' in "Unconscious Selection." I love these two, and this is such a funny, fascinating scene. The fact that he was the only she would let in, and his little pep-talk, her closing line and their smiles into the mirror- it's all just so wonderful, especially given that she looked at him like something she scrapped off her shoe when they first met.
Now, I also wanted to add a question: Best story arc
It's also hard, but I have a couple that I wanted to highlight, and looking ahead I couldn't find any question that could give me a good chance to. I'm tagging it onto the scenes question because some of the favorite scenes I'd thought of initially were only as good as they were because of the build of the story arc around them.
Stargate: SG-1: I love a lot of SG-1's story arcs, but one of my favorites is the set of episodes featuring the Unas. I love how the Unas started out as one nigh invincible villain no one cared about except in terms of how to finally kill it. Then they turned out to be a whole species, and Daniel- being Daniel- found a way to learn their language and start a peace process with them. And then later, on a world with humans and Unas' they turned out to be the more human.
Trauma: Profit narrowly beat Trauma out as the show I feel was most heinously killed before its time, and this gives me a great chance to talk about it. A show about three two-person teams of medics in San Francisco, Trauma was wonderful. Though I loved all the characters, Tyler Briggs was my favorite- a jittery, sports-loving, energy-drink-addicted EMT with a chip on his shoulder the size of his home state of Louisiana and a lot of abandonment issues; he was also gay. His coming-out arc was, in my opinion, the best coming-out arc in television. The total lack of homophobia on a show like Warehouse 13 is heartwarming and sweet- but Trauma was brilliant. Tyler's medic partner Boone is a very religious, very homophobic man who nevertheless decides that he isn't going to care any less about his best friend now that he knows he's gay than he did before. Watching him struggle with and eventually put his prejudices behind him- so much so that he's the one who later talks Tyler through coming out to his parents, who he never thought would accept him- is deeply moving.
Day 10 - A show you thought you wouldn’t like but ended up loving
Day 11 - A show that disappointed you
Day 12 - An episode you’ve watched more than 5 times
Day 13 - Favorite childhood show
Day 14 - Favorite male character
Day 15 - Favorite female character
Day 16 - Your guilty pleasure show
Day 17 - Favorite mini series
Day 18 - Favorite title sequence
Day 19 - Best TV show cast
Day 20 - Favorite kiss
Day 21 - Favorite ship
Day 22 - Favorite series finale
Day 23 - Most annoying character
Day 24 - Best quote
Day 25 - A show you plan on watching (old or new)
Day 26 - OMG WTF? Season finale
Day 27 - Best pilot episode
Day 28 - First TV show obsession
Day 29 - Current TV show obsession
Day 30 - Saddest character death
