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.
Fred: It's the pictures in my mind that are getting me. It's like being stuck in a really bad movie with those Clockwork Orange clampy things on my eyeballs. Wesley: Why imagine? Reality's disturbing enough.
'Shells'
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.
Betsy HP - Aug 19, 2006 5:34:23 pm PDT #1013 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
§ 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.
Kevin - Aug 20, 2006 2:00:45 pm PDT #1020 of 10001
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
Question: why do people like Out of Gas so much? What are the qualities which make it a good episode?
tiggy - Aug 20, 2006 2:26:52 pm PDT #1021 of 10001
I do believe in killing the messenger, you know why? Because it sends a message. ~ Damon Salvatore
The Office has tainted me forever. now anytime i see someone type "question" i hear Dwight Schrute saying it.
I would answer your question, Kevin, but i can never put into words why i like something as much as i do. OoG just has a lot going for it.
Allyson - Aug 20, 2006 2:31:21 pm PDT #1022 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
It's simplicity, an everyday sort of problem, like a bad alternator, transferred to them. If they were in a Winnebago in Death Valley, they might have a similar problem, Mad Max style.