Well, I'm off to London tomorrow! I plan on completely ignoring my birthday, if my parents let me - we'll see. But, I shall leave you with this picspam while I'm gone. For some reason I was in a picspammy mood this weekend and decided to do a spam with my favourite television scenes, and finally finished it. So, hope you like!
(Contains spoilers for, well, a lot of stuff, but most of it is old and, and if it's new it doesn't really spoil anything important. Although if you plan on watching The Vampire Diaries at some point, there's a scene from late season 2.)
The Vampire Diaries is silly fun, that's true, but most of the time it's silly awesome fun. Case in point: Elena 'BAMF' Gilbert stabbing herself, distracting Elijah and staking him. After she got the deal she wanted, which she would hold him to after she unstaked him (long story) when she needed him.
I've never really followed Doctor Who, but Blink? Is one of my favourite television episodes ever, and I still think this scene is so incredibly cool. Sally Sparrow was one hell of a heroine.
It's so hard to pinpoint a favourite Modern Family scene. Every tried I settled on one I kept going, "No, this one is even better!" But Gloria messing with Jay and being fabulously evil to get back at him for teasing her about her culture is brilliant.
The Big Bang Theory has given me many, many laughs, but this scene is still my all time favourite. The first time it aired, there were tears rolling down my cheeks from laughing so hard. I also think it was really sweet that Penny recognised Leonard Nimoy, realised what an autograph would mean to Sheldon (all right, maybe not just how much) and had him sign the napkin. She's a good friend.
Sledge's final breakdown in The Pacific when he realises he can't bring himself to go hunting makes me want to wrap him up in a blanket. Luckily, his awesome dad has it covered.
Words cannot describe how funny this scene from Extras is. No caps or transcriptions can do it justice. Suffice to say, it's freakin' hillarious and I don't know how they got through it even once without laughing.
My favourite thing about Gilmore Girls was always the scenes with Lauren Graham and Kelly Bishop, and for me this was their best one. They're both so hurt and angry and they both have reason to and they play off each other so well.
One thing I really love is when a show takes characters who don't normally interact and throw them into a scene, like Freaks & Geeks did here, and it becomes awesome. This one is both funny and a little heartbreaking. I love Daniel, I love Harris, and somehow they're really great together. I love that Daniel actually seems to respect Harris and care what he thinks, even though they're as different as can be.
Do I actually need to justify this next one? I didn't really follow Angel, either, but Smile Time? One of the most wonderfully absurd hours of television ever made. The first time we see Angel as a puppet... Well.
Grey's Anatomy really gets it right sometimes. Arizona confronting Callie's father about his attitude towards their relationship is really affecting.
I wouldn't call this a "favourite" scene, because that just seems like the wrong word, but it's certainly an amazing scene. And hard to watch, because it all looks so real. Band of Brothers did the "real" part very, very well.
I've only seen the first season of The Wire, but I'm loving it, and this scene made me giggle like mad when I realised what was going on. And what is going on is that some shit has gone down, as they would put it; Wee-Bey has been ordered to leave town and D'Angelo is going to drive him. D'Angelo doesn't know this and thinks he's about to be killed.
A lot of Band of Brothers episodes are hard to watch, and The Breaking Point is one of the hardest. But this scene, Ron Speirs being the most badass badass to ever be badass helps ease the pain a little bit. He's sent in to take over from Dike (who is getting the men killed), and saves the day through The Run of Epic Proportions.
Mark Antony is my favourite character in Rome, and this scene... Well. If this actually happened, I'm guessing it's where we got the expression "Don't kill the messenger." It's a pretty good illustration of how nuts Antony is, and I love it.
(My favourite thing is how everyone gets up to leave when they realise where the speech is going, and the expression on the guy's face when he realises they're abandoning to his fate while he reads. Also, the way Purefoy growls the last "go on" - that's human growling, right there.)
Every time I watch this episode of Everwood, I wish Emily Van Camp had an Emmy or something. Because she kills me in this scene. Absolutely kills me, every single time. She's so desperate and raw. Amy in the second season wasn't generally well liked, I've learnt, but Emily Van Camp made it so easy for me to sympathise with her.