Too big for my heart; my five most powerfully affecting moments on fictional TV

[corbyinoz]

I need something to distract me this morning, so I got thinking about the five fictional scenes on TV that really knocked my socks off. Well, why not? There are plenty of sporting moments, because I do like watching a lot of sport - Steve Waugh's 100 at the SCG, Sally Pearson winning gold at the Olympics, Makybe Diba's third Melbourne Cup, Sydney

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[runedgirl]

I'd have to include Sam Winchester's death at the end of S2 as one of the moments that affected me most. I cried so hard and so much that it was just plain ugly. lol. I agree with you about Dean's death at the end of S3 too.

The other tv episode that slayed me was the episode of Buffy where her mom died. I've never been able to watch it again.

[corbyinoz]

Oh, yes. That was gut wrenching, wasn't it, the silence of it. And the Buffy episode where she killed Angel - I'm not a romantic, but that made me cry.

Thank you - I did rather think that posting like this might prompt some more memories, and it has.

[juppschmitz]

I must say, all my devastating moments of TV have happened on SPN. All of them relating to Dean. Starting from the moment when he says to Sam that he hopes they never get the YED if that means any more of his family die... That was SO unexpected from ANY hero on TV. They ALWAYS want their revenge, it's, like, a thing. And when he said that I was speechless

[corbyinoz]

I am looking forward to getting S8 on DVD so I cna re-watch. I don't much like watching on computer, I don't know why. Just the way I've got things set up, I suppose. I don't tend to re-watch much on the computer, so re-visintg episodes like the one you mention, when Dean makes that phonecall to Benny, and then meets him to - gah.

Right, okay, I give up - Damon and Rose? No clue.

The sad part of 'Cars' is when they look back at how the place used to be, and what happened when the visitors stopped coming and everyone had to close up shop as Radiator Springs slowly 'died'. She's now 10, but she was only about five and a half when she saw that, and suddenly great heaving sobs came out of her. I was absolutely shocked that a child that age would respond to what was essentially a moment of deep nostalgia and melancholy rather than obvious trauma. "It's too big for my heart," she sobbed, and I got exactly what she meant. I've used it a lot since.

[juppschmitz]

Oh, ok. Damon from The Vampire Diaries. I've only now started watching to get me over hiatus. It's this show about two brothers (lol), only they're vampires. One is a goody two shoes (and boring imo), the other one (Damon <3) is the one who annoys everyone because he's rude, politically incorrect and incredibly impulsive. And yet, he deeply cares about whoever he lets into his heart. So much so that he doesn't even care about himself. He's also funny and goodlooking... (I realize many people don't like TVD, maybe you're one of them, in this case forget that I mentioned it.)

[corbyinoz]

I've never seen it. I'm not overly interested in vampire stuff - probably thanks to an overwhleming aversion to Twilight - but you make it sound interesting. I'll see if I can get hold of a few eps, give it a whirl.

[willows_mom]

First of all, I wanted to echo what you said about Abbott. What a sad day in Australian history

[corbyinoz]

What??? Amy and Rory die??? Nooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!

Well, shit, that just tops a shitty day. Richmond got beaten, the Liberals are in power and now Amy and Rory die. Bugger. We've just started on S5. (You weren't to know, and it's been around long enough I would never complain about spoilers).

I know you love animals. I feel that way about kids. I can't really enjoy Hunger Games. It's well done, and so on, but at heart - ten children die. It's awful. I don't think I've ever grieved for an animal on TV (have done big time in RL), but I get it, I really do - and don't worry about it being animated. I remember getting into an animated series in the 80s, I think it was, some boring name like Starship or something, a character called Derek Wildstar? Starfire? And I got completely hooked. I psychoanalysed the character to death and really thought and worried he was going to end horirbly. I take it as a sign of our powers of imagination and empathy *g* (and hey, anyone who's not moved by Miyazaki films ain't got a heart).

[willows_mom]

Oh crap I am so so sorry:-( I didn't mean to spoil it. I guess there is a positive in tht I didn't say how it happens, but I am still really sorry.
And I get what you're saying about Hunger Games, it is pretty dark that the whole premise is that 10 children have to die.

[corbyinoz]

Oh, no, really, you weren't to know. I don't like spoilers, but you have to be reasonable; unless it happened last week (and I know it can't have, because I knew there was a new companion), then you cna't complain if you get accidentally spoiled. I'll just have to be brave as we watch...

Yes, THG is just downright depressing.

[willows_mom]

Oh, and can I add a movie moment;
* The end of Gallipoli. All I can think, when I see that scene, is the extreme survivor guilt Mel Gibson's character would have experienced. "If only I'd been faster he would still be alive. I killed him" It would haunt him, probably for the rest of his life.

[corbyinoz]

Argh, Gallipolli. First time I cried my bloody eyes out in a movie theatre. And then the lights came up and I was so ashamed of my red eyes. Now, I wouldn't give two hoots - who cares if they see I've been affected?

You're right, of course, he would never really have gotten over it. And we tend to forget, so many didn't. They just didn't. He would have come back, if indeed he survived, with so many issues and memories. The guilt, the self-loathing, the 'of onlys' woudl always haunt him, I agree.

You are cheating adding a movie moment, but that's okay. On a day of mourning, we can allow an indulgence or two. And yeah, I'd put Gallipolli in my list. But then I'd also add The Dish, of all things, I always tear up at that - another triumphal one.

[arabia764]

I'd have gone with the Band of Brothers moment. But I need many distractions - we elected not one but two arseholes to run the place. The damage they are doing is unbelievable.

[corbyinoz]

Oh, really? I only ever see soundbites of Cameron, and he just seems awfully slick but not overtly shitty, if you know what I mean. But of course they'd be fucking the country over; it's what Conservatives do. I'm sorry to hear that they're behaving as badly as expected. Couldn't they have defied their own nature and thought a little altruistically for a bit? Just a bit?

Yes, I almost automatically put BoB in there, but as explained above - I didn't cry over the characters portrayed, I cried over the real bloke. What an amazing man, and oh, god, that finale... I'm tearing up just thinking of it. I sincerely mourned him when he died last year. But I was specifically thinking of imaginary characters. Investing in real peopel and being moved by them makes all kinds of sense; mourning imaginary consructs, or being wildly enthused or inspired by them, whatever, is what's really interesting to me. And we do believe in these people, on some level - I'm convinced the Doctor is going to park his TARDIS out the back one of these days.

[arabia764]

Would you like to see Cameron closer up? I could send him over to you. No, really, I'd *love* top send him over!

They've buggered up education, now the Post Office and the one I will never get over, the NHS. You aren't meant to make money out of schools but that seems to be where they're headed. As for our mayor Boris... don'tget me started!

I sobbed my heart out the first time I saw The Deer Hunter. Is that the kind of thing you meant?

[corbyinoz]

You're so kind, but thank you, no. With Tony The Mad Monk Abbott, we have our own homegrown arsehole to deal with. He has yet to bugger up education, but give him time. He will - my uni will have $16 mill less straight off the bat. That's the way to stay forward thinking, innovative, and informed (all of which speak to competitiveness, the conservatives' mantra)- cripple the universities.

Make money out of schools? sigh. Yep. Conservatives run govt like they'd run a business, instead of understanding that government is - well, government. So for them it's user pays, and cutting the dead wood, etc. Newsflash; no one in society should be regarded as dead wood, and some users *can't* pay, and that's why we pay taxes, to help them out.

The great thing is the utterly foul, completely despicable local member may well have lost her seat to an Indpeendent. You little beauty!!!!

Ugh. Anyway, The Deer Hunter - I haven't seen it. It's good? So many great movies, so little time. I should watch it - Christopher Walken is always weirdly