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30 Days of TV Meme
Jan. 29th, 2019 12:17 pmDay 09. Best scene ever
My favourite hasn't really changed from my original answer. Those two scenes from Highlander are seared into my memory.
But there is another, from Blake's 7 that had such an impact on me from the moment I saw it, and it's probably a major reason why I do enjoy unresolved, shock endings so much. In the series finale, Having found their long-lost leader, Blake, our heroes get surrounded by the enemy Federation. Believing Blake has betrayed them, Avon kills him and stands motionless over his body. The others, Vila, Dayna, Tarrant, and Soolin come under fire from the Federation troopers and one-by-one they go down. The troopers surround Avon, he looks up and raises his blaster, and....
Roll credits (to the sound of blaster fire).
The BBC first broadcast this episode about a week before Christmas, and there was a much larger than normal spike in suicides that Christmas, and the bleak, hopeless ending where the heroes lose was pointed to as a major contributing factor.
Other favourite scenes from my some of my favourite shows are:
Black Sails There are many wonderful, powerful scenes in throughout the series. It took me a while to get into it though for one reason or another. But at the end of the first season Captain Flint kills his quartermaster, Gates, in a wonderfully acted confrontation. Given that the reason I started watching Black Sails in the first place was because Mark Ryan (Nasir in Robin of Sherwood) played Gates, it's rather odd that his death really got me hooked, but again it was because it showed they weren't reticent about doing the unexpected -- which they went on to prove several times -- although it did take me several more seasons before I warmed up to Flint even a little bit.
Speaking of Robin of Sherwood, there are two scenes that are breath-taking, both are from the episode "The Greatest Enemy". The first features Nasir. Several of the Merries have been captured by Gisburne. Nasir steals into the village where they are being held to rescue them. He kills at least ten of the Sheriff's men before he's even discovered, and once he is, kills several more. He is only stopped when he finds the guards have the Merries at swordpoint and, by this time, surrounded by the guards and completely outnumbered, and from a signal from (I think) Will Scarlett he very reluctantly surrenders. It was a brilliant showcase of Nasir's skills and the loyalty that he'd developed for his friends. The second is Robin's death, which is an iconic scene from the series. Standing on a hill with Marian, surrounded by the Sheriff and his men, and down to his last arrow. The Sheriff, fearing a trap has his men ready as Robin fires into the air before being cut down.
ne last one, and for a change of pace, no death in this one! There are so many best scenes and/or wongs in Galavant that it's hard to narrow down to just a few, let alone one. But one of my top ones, just for the sheer novelty value is "Love Makes the World Brand New" sung by Gareth and what makes that astounding is that Gareth is played by Vinnie Jones, noted hardman, always the prone-to-violence brute even before he turned to acting...there was a very good reason he was called Vinnie "The Psycho" Jones when he played football. So, Vinnie singing a love song is just the funniest thing ever!!
My favourite hasn't really changed from my original answer. Those two scenes from Highlander are seared into my memory.
But there is another, from Blake's 7 that had such an impact on me from the moment I saw it, and it's probably a major reason why I do enjoy unresolved, shock endings so much. In the series finale, Having found their long-lost leader, Blake, our heroes get surrounded by the enemy Federation. Believing Blake has betrayed them, Avon kills him and stands motionless over his body. The others, Vila, Dayna, Tarrant, and Soolin come under fire from the Federation troopers and one-by-one they go down. The troopers surround Avon, he looks up and raises his blaster, and....
Roll credits (to the sound of blaster fire).
The BBC first broadcast this episode about a week before Christmas, and there was a much larger than normal spike in suicides that Christmas, and the bleak, hopeless ending where the heroes lose was pointed to as a major contributing factor.
Other favourite scenes from my some of my favourite shows are:
Black Sails There are many wonderful, powerful scenes in throughout the series. It took me a while to get into it though for one reason or another. But at the end of the first season Captain Flint kills his quartermaster, Gates, in a wonderfully acted confrontation. Given that the reason I started watching Black Sails in the first place was because Mark Ryan (Nasir in Robin of Sherwood) played Gates, it's rather odd that his death really got me hooked, but again it was because it showed they weren't reticent about doing the unexpected -- which they went on to prove several times -- although it did take me several more seasons before I warmed up to Flint even a little bit.
Speaking of Robin of Sherwood, there are two scenes that are breath-taking, both are from the episode "The Greatest Enemy". The first features Nasir. Several of the Merries have been captured by Gisburne. Nasir steals into the village where they are being held to rescue them. He kills at least ten of the Sheriff's men before he's even discovered, and once he is, kills several more. He is only stopped when he finds the guards have the Merries at swordpoint and, by this time, surrounded by the guards and completely outnumbered, and from a signal from (I think) Will Scarlett he very reluctantly surrenders. It was a brilliant showcase of Nasir's skills and the loyalty that he'd developed for his friends. The second is Robin's death, which is an iconic scene from the series. Standing on a hill with Marian, surrounded by the Sheriff and his men, and down to his last arrow. The Sheriff, fearing a trap has his men ready as Robin fires into the air before being cut down.
ne last one, and for a change of pace, no death in this one! There are so many best scenes and/or wongs in Galavant that it's hard to narrow down to just a few, let alone one. But one of my top ones, just for the sheer novelty value is "Love Makes the World Brand New" sung by Gareth and what makes that astounding is that Gareth is played by Vinnie Jones, noted hardman, always the prone-to-violence brute even before he turned to acting...there was a very good reason he was called Vinnie "The Psycho" Jones when he played football. So, Vinnie singing a love song is just the funniest thing ever!!