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resonant ([personal profile] resonant) wrote2022-12-12 08:04 pm
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December Daily: TV episodes

[personal profile] celli - Top five TV episodes of all time

Oh, boy, this really does not play to my strengths. You'd be amazed how much TV I've forgotten. How about this: two episodes:

MASH -- Comrades in Arms 1 & 2. Hawkeye and Margaret get trapped in a hut together, and both of them are trying to live out a story, but their stories don't match, and they disappoint each other and enrage each other, and then they tell some truths (I vividly remember Margaret saying, "When you've lost sight of his photograph because you've covered it with kisses -- and then to find out you're 'sturdy.'"), and then at the end Margaret has a new story, which she plans to use to fool her cheating fiance.

Star Trek: The Next Generation -- The Measure of a Man. That moment when the researcher goes from calling Data 'it' to calling him 'he.' (Which also reminds me of him in another ep correcting Pulaski's pronunciation of 'Data': she says, "What's the difference?" and he says, "One is my name. The other is not.")

And three moments:

Harry Kim, on Star Trek:Voyager, this character who so far has basically seemed like what a cute popular boy would be if his entire school was made up of nerds -- sitting in the mess with disgraced pilot Tom Paris and saying, "I don't need anyone to pick my friends for me."

Fraser and Vecchio, doing ridiculous disco dances in due South's "Some Like It Red." That was the moment I trusted the show not to mine the "Fraser in a dress" premise for misogynistic cheap laughs, but instead to mine it for more universal laughs.

The very first time in Buffy that you saw the little blonde girl walking down the dark alley with someone dangerous following her -- and then she wisecracked at him and killed him. It was easy to get inured to it, but that first time was an incredible rush.






Upcoming prompts below the cut.




13 [personal profile] duffy - Top 5 OTPs in television or movies. Could be romantic or friendship. (Canon is NOT a requirement!)
14 [personal profile] minoanmiss - Top five poets? top five titles?
15 [personal profile] the_future_modernes - top five things you look forward to as you grow older
16 [personal profile] clevermanka - Five pieces of treasured advice
17 [personal profile] dine - Top five ice cream flavors
18 [personal profile] rhi Five favorite Christmas treats (cookies to make, mulled cider, Advent calendars, e.g.)
19 [personal profile] china_shop - Top five devices/appliances/bluetooth thingies/whatever :-)
20 [personal profile] dorinda - Top 5 comfort movies? Or comfort reads, if you'd rather
21 [personal profile] summerstorm - because it puts me in mind of blackjack, do you play any card or board games regularly? Or videogames? top 5 games?
22 [personal profile] summerstorm - top 5 poems?
23 [personal profile] fox - Top five Advent carols, maybe
24 [personal profile] fox - Top five Christmas carols
25 break for Christmas
26 [personal profile] ride_4ever - top 5 dS fanworks other than fic (arts, podfics, vids)
27 [personal profile] azurelunatic - 5 reasons you enjoy a party in the dark times of the year
28 [personal profile] james - Top 5 places in the past you would like to visit. Top 5 places in the present you would like to visit.
29 [personal profile] laurenthemself - Top five snack foods (sorry, the requested date got taken between the time you posted and the time I edited)
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31 [personal profile] mergatrude - what five complements/encouragements would you give your young self.
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[personal profile] mergatrude 2022-12-13 05:38 am (UTC)(link)
Oh gosh! That MASH episode is one of mine, as well.
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[personal profile] lunabee34 2022-12-13 11:45 am (UTC)(link)
Oh man. So much of MASH. That show broke my heart on a regular basis.
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[personal profile] lunabee34 2022-12-16 01:16 pm (UTC)(link)
We watched it in syndication; it came on every night after dinner.
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[personal profile] celli 2022-12-14 02:53 am (UTC)(link)
ooh, awesome!