Spike: Or maybe Captain Forehead was feeling a little less special. Didn't like me crashing his exclusive club, another vampire with a soul in the world. Angel: You're not in the world, Casper.

'Just Rewards (2)'


The Minearverse 5: Closer to the Earth, Further from the Ax  

[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls, The Inside and Drive), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.


Strega - Aug 19, 2006 4:16:54 pm PDT #1010 of 10001

Ooo, are you looking to move?

...Wait, is this because I said I could probably find my way back to your apt?


Gris - Aug 19, 2006 4:20:43 pm PDT #1011 of 10001
Hey. New board.

Angel eps that make me cry: "I Will Remember You," "Hero," "Home" (sometimes), "A Hole in the World," "Not Fade Away." I can't believe nothing from Season 2 really stands out to me as a cry-maker; I think the emotional impact of that season is so slow that it never pushes me right over that edge. It's like a frog that doesn't notice it's hot when you boil it slowly.

Buffy eps that make me cry: "Lie to Me" (a little), "Innocence," "Passion," "Becoming part 2," "Anne" (for some reason), "Lover's Walk," (OH NO ANGST!), "The Wish," (that last scene is KILLER images), "The Prom," (Class protector award!), "Graduation Day part 2" (happy/sad tears at the survival + Angel leaving), "Wild at Heart," (MORE ANGST!), "This Year's Girl," (for an odd reason - Faith's relationship with the mayor hits me so hard, I always tear up when she gets his message at the beginning), "New Moon Rising," (ANGST AGAIN!), "I Was Made To Love You," (The last scene gets me. Poor dying android.), "The Body," "Forever," "The Gift," "Hell's Bells," "Seeing Red"

Firefly eps that make me cry: "Out of Gas"

Funny, because I think of Angel as a much more sad-making show than Buffy, but I guess sad-making and cry-making are different emotions for me.


Allyson - Aug 19, 2006 4:51:24 pm PDT #1012 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica

...Wait, is this because I said I could probably find my way back to your apt?

There's a wee house for rent in my hood. I'm always looking to move, but the prices for apartments here are of the suck. It's a one-bedroom in my price-range.

Kristen is going to the open house with me so we can appear to be a stable lesbian couple.


Betsy HP - Aug 19, 2006 5:34:23 pm PDT #1013 of 10001
If I only had a brain...

Sentences I never expected to say in my life:

"Tomorrow I am taking my kids to 'Snakes on a Plane'."

So, yeah, it's a Thing.


§ ita § - Aug 19, 2006 5:58:09 pm PDT #1014 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

War Stories made me weep...god, did I cry. The Body made me cry, and the Amanda's a Potential and the Amanda dies episodes of Buffy made me cry too.

Angel didn't. That wasn't its edge for me.


SailAweigh - Aug 19, 2006 6:13:55 pm PDT #1015 of 10001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb

War Stories didn't make me cry, but it was one of the episodes I related to the most as a vet. Put any two ex-military in a room together and it's inevitable, the stories come out by the bookload.


P.M. Marc - Aug 19, 2006 7:43:44 pm PDT #1016 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

City Of now makes me cry, in that, "Nooo! Don't follow him! You're all doooooooooooooooooooomed!" way.

I think that's about it. Though the music for The Gift makes me cry, when played on its own.

Tonight, at our friends' pig roast party, where a whole pig was, in fact, roasted and eaten, I was geeking out in a most hardcore fashion with my friend Ed. Who confessed, such as it was, that one of the highlights of his week, the thing that made him burst with joy, was Tim's DVD arriving at his doorstep.

Also, he pronounced Minear correctly.

That is all.


Simon - Aug 20, 2006 12:08:42 am PDT #1017 of 10001

Apart from the usual suspects, I'll go with Xander's "Seven years, Dawn. Working with the slayer. Seeing my friends get more and more powerful" speech from 'Potential'. Nick Brendon's finest performance, gets me everytime I see that scene.


Matt the Bruins fan - Aug 20, 2006 7:32:39 am PDT #1018 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

The Body made me cry. That was it.

Allyson is me in this regard, though the end of "Forever" was almost enough to make me sniffle. Angel punched a lot of my buttons successfully, but never to achieve tears.


libkitty - Aug 20, 2006 12:48:57 pm PDT #1019 of 10001
Embrace the idea that we are the leaders we've been looking for. Grace Lee Boggs

Several eps have made me cry. Most have turned out to be some of my favorite eps. The one where Fred turned into Illyria made me sob like a baby, but I really didn't like it very much. It was like the tears were turned on, but not the real emotions. But then, Fred and Gunn should have never broken up, so I never was really happy with anything after that.

favorite episode ever.

Wrod with a side of wrod. OoG is the best ep of any series, ever, which I pretty much expound upon ad nauseum any time anyone brings up anything remotely related.