Day 24: Best Quote
There are quotes from previous shows that I've mentioned that hold a lot of meaning to me:
Grey's Anatomy - 5x19 - Elevator Love Letter by Stacy McKee
But they always come. They're my people. People keep you going. People are better than no people.
Six Feet Under - 5x12 - Everyone's Waiting by Alan Ball
You can't take a picture of this it's already gone.
But you know what...
The best quote for me?
Is better watched than written out. It is from Parks and Recreation - 2x10 - The Hunting Trip by Daniel J. Goor.
Leslie Knope: [giving excuses why she shot Ron Swanson to the Park Ranger, each excuse is punctuated by a quick cut to another excuse]: I got that tunnel vision that girls get. I let my emotions get the best of me. I cared too much, I guess. I was thinking with my lady parts. I was walking and it felt icky. I thought there was gonna be chocolate. I don't even remember! I'm wearing a new bra, and it closes in the front, so it popped open and it threw me off. All I wanna do is have babies! I'm just going through a thing right now. I guess when my life is incomplete, I wanna just shoot someone. This would not happen if I had a penis! Bitches be crazy. I'm good at tolerating pain; I'm bad at math, and... I'm stupid.
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Friday, April 15, 2011
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Day 22: 30 Days of TV - Favorite Season Finale
Day 22: Favorite Season Finale
I didn't even have to think. It's Six Feet Under.
Six Feet Under was a fantastic show, with a great premise, actors from all walks of life came through the Fisher & Sons home and they lived in it.
My instant answer to this question of Best, Favorite, Most Moving, etc.etc. finale will always be Six Feet Under. While many shows take you successfully on an arc with the characters you never quite feel the completion that you do with the Fisher family at the end of this hour of television.
I recently forced Beth to finally finish this series because I knew I would be writing about it for this day. She had heard numerous friends and random people declaring out loud in a fashion almost as fervent as people talk about politics, religion, and secret family recipes. It took her two years to plug through the series and I know why, Beth is about experiencing any form of artistic culture in a community type setting.
Music, art, movies, television are always better when she can share them with someone. It's why we go to so many things together and why going to the movie theatre is still something that is a deep down need for her and I sometimes. Art is about sharing an emotional experience with others... even if it's just sitting beside them on the couch and sharing the same air.
This morning when I was able to talk with her about this series finale I felt a little more complete, because now another of my friends is breathing that same air with me. And when television can make you feel... when it elevates itself from an hour of forgettable programming (I'm looking at you Two and a Half Men) to something that you need others to experience.
That's something to write a blog about.
If you haven't watched the series, please don't watch this clip. Do yourself the favor invest in five seasons with the Fishers, you'll thank me for it when you can take that deep body rattling breath when you see the screen fade to white at the end of the series, like it does every episode.
But this time, you know... it's ended for good.
Why am I not talking about it in depth? Because I could talk about the below ten minutes for days. I probably will as Beth and I walk along the sidewalks of Weston this Saturday, most likely holding hands, swinging them playfully back and forth as we window shop.
But you should watch the show, everybody's waiting for you.
Ceasing Ramble.
P.S. - The sensory reaction I have to Sia's - Breath Me, is always cathartic every time. I always put it on a workout or driving play list. It centers me into stripping away the outside world and remembering why I'm here, what I'm doing, and where I'll be going.
I didn't even have to think. It's Six Feet Under.
My instant answer to this question of Best, Favorite, Most Moving, etc.etc. finale will always be Six Feet Under. While many shows take you successfully on an arc with the characters you never quite feel the completion that you do with the Fisher family at the end of this hour of television.
I recently forced Beth to finally finish this series because I knew I would be writing about it for this day. She had heard numerous friends and random people declaring out loud in a fashion almost as fervent as people talk about politics, religion, and secret family recipes. It took her two years to plug through the series and I know why, Beth is about experiencing any form of artistic culture in a community type setting.
Music, art, movies, television are always better when she can share them with someone. It's why we go to so many things together and why going to the movie theatre is still something that is a deep down need for her and I sometimes. Art is about sharing an emotional experience with others... even if it's just sitting beside them on the couch and sharing the same air.
This morning when I was able to talk with her about this series finale I felt a little more complete, because now another of my friends is breathing that same air with me. And when television can make you feel... when it elevates itself from an hour of forgettable programming (I'm looking at you Two and a Half Men) to something that you need others to experience.
That's something to write a blog about.
If you haven't watched the series, please don't watch this clip. Do yourself the favor invest in five seasons with the Fishers, you'll thank me for it when you can take that deep body rattling breath when you see the screen fade to white at the end of the series, like it does every episode.
But this time, you know... it's ended for good.
Why am I not talking about it in depth? Because I could talk about the below ten minutes for days. I probably will as Beth and I walk along the sidewalks of Weston this Saturday, most likely holding hands, swinging them playfully back and forth as we window shop.
But you should watch the show, everybody's waiting for you.
Ceasing Ramble.
P.S. - The sensory reaction I have to Sia's - Breath Me, is always cathartic every time. I always put it on a workout or driving play list. It centers me into stripping away the outside world and remembering why I'm here, what I'm doing, and where I'll be going.
Thursday, January 6, 2011
Day 8: 30 Days of TV - Best Twist in a Series
Day 8: Best twist in a series
I have been stuck on this post for over a week. In fact, I had a conversation with my friend Kamiah about it.
SNAP! CRACKLE! Awwwww. It caused me to stop watching because I was so upset. I nearly did not pick the series back up, but I did.
"You know, Anya is so my favorite."
It slices! It dices! It also makes juilenne fries!
You'd think I'd learn.
"God I love Doyle, he just brings the whole show together. He's like the Willow."
I miss Glenn too. Sigh.
"I don't know what it is about Angel, but Lilah is the best character on this show."
That one I really didn't see coming, at least how it happened.
Beth told me I really should at this point just no longer talk about who my favorite character is ever. I still didn't learn.
"I love Conner."
"Man, I miss Cordelia so much, she was the best part of this show."
"You know Fred is the heart now that Cordy's gone."
"Hey Beth, Rach and I are members of the club 'What Wes Wants Wes Gets'"
Slice! Poof! Faghenbottom! Denied!
And even though every single one of them hurt and shocked me to some extent. (They had to tell me for an entire episode that Fred was dead. I didn't believe them. Until the very last shot and then I finally started bawling. Ask Beth. It was as snot-a-riffic as every viewing I do of that cheese-tastic Jodie Foster movie Sommersby. She has great stories about me and Sommersby.)
Nothing made me drop my jaw like a character death on Six Feet Under. A show that always has a character die in every episode, perhaps two. But this one. Is when I thought the show might be stupid and brilliant all at the same time.
BETH STOP READING RIGHT NOW DO NOT CLICK ON THE BELOW BREAK LINK AND FINISH SIX FEET UNDER ALREADY YOU'VE HAD IT FOR YEARS!
I can hear her going "Ooops" followed by a giggle right now or a cackle, depends on how happy she is...
I have been stuck on this post for over a week. In fact, I had a conversation with my friend Kamiah about it.
Me: I'm stuck on the TV blog. It's Best Twist. I think I'm overwhelmed, because I watch so much twisty TV.
Death as an abrupt end is always a twist that cuts to the core when done right. Showing the audience that they cannot find anything to be a constant makes the choices and consequences feel like they have more weight. I would say this is the main faltering point of Heroes and Lost. The dead do not stay dead, or perhaps I just never said that I had a favorite character on that show.
Kamiah: What are you thoughts?
Me: Most of them revolve around death, because that's always a good shocking thing. But I think it should be something that you go, "Oooooooooh" everytime you see it.
Kamiah: End of The Newhart Show. Does that count?
Me: That was LAME So angry.
Kamiah: Not LAME
Me: LAME
Kamiah: COOL
Me: BOOO
Kamiah: YOU'RE COOL
Me: You're Boo!
Kamiah: Mine's better
Me: Well you're nicer than me. And btw, I'm blogging this. It's going to be the intro to the post.
So yes, the shows that I watch are all pretty twisty and the thing that continues to shock me (although it shouldn't anymore) is the curse that I have somehow looming over me. When I state out loud, "This person is my favorite character." I have doomed them for death. I'm a Joss Whedon girl. I know that you have to earn the death to make it meaningful and the first one to make me feel the twist, was of course on Buffy.
If you have not watched Buffy, Angel, or Six Feet Under do not read below unless you want a large spoiler. Beth you can read to the cut.
SPOILERAGE SPACE
"I think Jenny is my favorite character."
If you have not watched Buffy, Angel, or Six Feet Under do not read below unless you want a large spoiler. Beth you can read to the cut.
SPOILERAGE SPACE
"I think Jenny is my favorite character."
SNAP! CRACKLE! Awwwww. It caused me to stop watching because I was so upset. I nearly did not pick the series back up, but I did.
"You know, Anya is so my favorite."
It slices! It dices! It also makes juilenne fries!
You'd think I'd learn.
"God I love Doyle, he just brings the whole show together. He's like the Willow."
I miss Glenn too. Sigh.
"I don't know what it is about Angel, but Lilah is the best character on this show."
That one I really didn't see coming, at least how it happened.
Beth told me I really should at this point just no longer talk about who my favorite character is ever. I still didn't learn.
"I love Conner."
"Man, I miss Cordelia so much, she was the best part of this show."
"You know Fred is the heart now that Cordy's gone."
"Hey Beth, Rach and I are members of the club 'What Wes Wants Wes Gets'"
Slice! Poof! Faghenbottom! Denied!
And even though every single one of them hurt and shocked me to some extent. (They had to tell me for an entire episode that Fred was dead. I didn't believe them. Until the very last shot and then I finally started bawling. Ask Beth. It was as snot-a-riffic as every viewing I do of that cheese-tastic Jodie Foster movie Sommersby. She has great stories about me and Sommersby.)
Nothing made me drop my jaw like a character death on Six Feet Under. A show that always has a character die in every episode, perhaps two. But this one. Is when I thought the show might be stupid and brilliant all at the same time.
BETH STOP READING RIGHT NOW DO NOT CLICK ON THE BELOW BREAK LINK AND FINISH SIX FEET UNDER ALREADY YOU'VE HAD IT FOR YEARS!
I can hear her going "Ooops" followed by a giggle right now or a cackle, depends on how happy she is...
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