Wonderful moment.
Isn't that everyone's favorite moment of Watership Down?
Although I'm kind of fond of the bit where General Woundwort becomes a kind of generalized boogeyman for keeping little rabbit kids in control.
Wash: Don't fall asleep now. Sleepiness is weakness of character. Ask anyone. You're acting captain. Know what happens you fall asleep now? Zoe: Jayne slits my throat, and takes over. Wash: That's right. Zoe: And we can't stop it.
'Shindig'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Consuela - Jun 29, 2006 8:06:04 pm PDT #946 of 28095
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
erikaj - Jun 30, 2006 5:13:03 am PDT #947 of 28095
Always Anti-fascist!
I prefer more realistic fiction, but, c'mon. Talking rabbits are cool.
Katie M - Jun 30, 2006 8:18:02 am PDT #948 of 28095
I was charmed (albeit somewhat perplexed) by the fannish sensibility of many of the music choices -- it's like the director was trying to vid Canada. --loligo on the Olympic Opening Ceremonies
Isn't that everyone's favorite moment of Watership Down?
Probably. Though I have a real fondness for the whole digging-out-the-snare sequence, and the run from Efrafa to the boat.
Katerina Bee - Jun 30, 2006 9:19:50 am PDT #949 of 28095
Herding cats for fun
Now I must go re-read Watership Down. Bigwig, Fiver, Hazel, Hyzenthlay... Maybe Plague Dogs too, because the ending satisfies my mushy heart, after it has given up all hope. Much like the emotional payoff in The Incredible Journey.
I remember having to sleep with the lights on after reading The Haunting of Hill House and how somehow the colors in the room looked all wrong and it was the most frightening thing ever.
I acquired the entire Anne of Green Gables series at the Curious Book Shoppe back in Michigan, and none of them had been published before 1936. I loved reading fragile, yellowing books much older than I because it made the story feel more like time travel. I've pretty much deleted Anne of Ingleside from my memory banks because the author was so clearly bored that my beloved vivacious Anne came across like a Valium-damaged housewife who couldn't finish a single thought.
I think one of my favorite book memories is coming across my roommate's copy of John Varley's Wizard. Standing in the living room, paused on my way to doing something else and getting so completely caught up in the story that I had to come up for air. Thinking, " oh wow" and "I have got to go get me a copy of this book ASAP because I can't steal this book and I can't wait for my turn at it."
When Eowyn kicked the Witch King's ass, how happy I would have been to know that characters like Xena and Buffy and Zoe would soon be routine.
Atropa - Jun 30, 2006 10:56:21 am PDT #950 of 28095
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Talking rabbits are cool.
Of course they are! Only crazyheads don't accept this as a Universal Truth.
(Which means I should probably re-read Watership Down soon-ish, because I haven't in about two decades.)
Polter-Cow - Jun 30, 2006 11:02:22 am PDT #951 of 28095
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I haven't read it since my first time in ninth grade, and I want to read it again now.
I think I read that Tales of Watership Down thing years ago, but I don't remember. I at least held it.
Frankenbuddha - Jun 30, 2006 11:07:48 am PDT #952 of 28095
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Talking rabbits are cool.
Plus the animated film is a great way to traumatize kids (and probably a few adults as well).
Katie M - Jun 30, 2006 11:13:37 am PDT #953 of 28095
I was charmed (albeit somewhat perplexed) by the fannish sensibility of many of the music choices -- it's like the director was trying to vid Canada. --loligo on the Olympic Opening Ceremonies
Oh, the movie is freaky.
Polter-Cow - Jun 30, 2006 11:19:28 am PDT #954 of 28095
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Hi, here is a river of blood!
-t - Jun 30, 2006 11:23:06 am PDT #955 of 28095
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Oh, I just remembered "The Yellow Wallpaper". Pretty creepy when I read it, much more so when I thought about it while sick and prone to hallucinations and delusions myself.
Shudder.