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[doyle]

Buffy, Fool For Love

I have all seven seasons on DVD, and *this* disc had to be the only one that won't play... Anyway, the shot that reappears in the Angel episode Darla, the Fanged Four striding in slo-mo through the burning street in the middle of the Boxer Rebellion.

Angel, Home

Well, there's rampant Wes/Lilah shagging in Ground State, or anything with the Angelpuppet or... ahem. Just one, okay. Angel and Connor's final scene in the shopping mall kills me. Boreanaz and Kartheiser hit it out of the park and then some.

Smallville, Hourglass

The vision of Lex's future, so horrific it kills the old woman who sees it: President Luthor in a field of sunflowers that crumble away to ash when he touches one; blood raining from the sky, the ground covered in bones, and Lex just keeps up that creepy little smile. I'm not even much of a Superman geek but I loved the continuity nod in Lex wearing one black glove.

Firefly, Objects in Space

The opener, with River's surreal walk through the ship, is so beautiful and strange. Now I'm torn between that one and River's speech when she tells Early she's become Serenity.

You're wrong about River. River's not on the ship. They didn't want her here, but she couldn't make herself leave. So she melted... Melted away. I'm not on the ship. I'm in the ship. I am the ship.


Queer as Folk UK, episode 1.8

"You're supposed to ask if I love him."
"You can't. You can't even respect him. He loves Vince Tyler and that makes him stupid."
"No, it's nothing like that! It's just... me, though? I can't be the best shag he's ever had, he's Australian! I don't even know if I'm a good kisser, how'd you know if you're a good kisser?"
"You just know."
"It's not like I've ever done... anything."
"You've done nothing, Vince. You go to work, you sit and watch cheap science fiction. What is there that's special about that, what is there to love?"
"...yeah."
"It was good enough for me."

That dialogue may not be exact seeing as it's from memory, having seen the show once in the last five years, but the acting in that scene is amazing.

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[chicken-cem.livejournal.com]

The opener, with River's surreal walk through the ship, is so beautiful and strange. Now I'm torn between that one and River's speech when she tells Early she's become Serenity.

The masterful way the scripts play with time and with perception and POV in both Objects in Space and Out of Gas are so awe-inspiring that they really stick in your mind for weeks, months, and probably years after seeing them. The way these concepts are brought to screen are so gorgeous and so visually unusual that it isn't hyperbole to call them fantastic in every sense of the word. And as you say, surreal. I'd add haunting. Itt's so masterful that they actually manage to make it all look very easy -- quite a feat when you consider how very difficult it is (esp. after listening to the DVD commentary).