shocking moments
POSTED BY: est120
UPDATED: Thursday, March 3, 2005 04:16
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okay, i have a question that i hope will generate LOTS of answers! what are some of the "shocking moments" you have encountered in any of the three shows we so religiously talk about on this message board? moments that were true jaw droppers to ones that made you raise an eyebrow to ones that made you gasp to ones that left you weak in the knees for a few minutes.
i will get things going. i think the moment in "serenity" when mal shoots dobson is certainly a moment when i thought to myself, "whoa! did that just happen?".
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When Caleb took out Xander's eye, I screamed out loud.
I still miss Joyce. A fictional woman I never met - I miss her.
Whenever I think of Angel locking the multitude of bloodsuckers (both lawyer and vamp) in the room together, I can feel the feral grin fill my face. I still can't believe he did it.
My Firefly moment is River doing to math. Good stuff that.
"Just keep walkin, preacher man."
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I agree with Knibblet on Xander's eye.
Anya's demise was another big one.
And Buffy finding Joyce's body was just a kick in the gut.
Spike getting staked by Illyria.
Kaylee's dead.
Yes, the "Kaylee's dead" thing got me even though I saw the premiere last (yeah, them again) and knew that she was still around. It was just so well-performed by Nathan and Sean. Plus, it's Joss, and I don't trust him as far as I could throw a Fyarl demon. 
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For me it was in Objects, the moment when River speaks as Serenity. I was stomping around the room, in complete disbelief. I kept saying to my wife "NO WAY! He wouldn't do that! That would be so trite and how could we loose River like that!" etc etc etc for a few minutes, which slowly started to turn into "Well, I guess it could be an interesting way to take the plot" which of course later turned into "I KNEW IT!!!!!" at the end. :)
Loved that episode, just for the reactions of everyone else (and my own) to what was happening. Beautiful.
- Leto_V
"Well, my days of not taking you
seriously are certainly coming to
a middle." - Mal
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Good Question!
On BtVS: the end of S6 when Giles shows up and says:
"I'd like to test that theory"
I fell out of my chair...
and then followed by the finale for S6
when Spike got his soul,
Joss did a great job of misdirection on that,
and I was VERY surprised!
On Angel, in spite of a million casting spoilers,
I still found the appearance of Lyndsay in Eve's bed to be HUGE
(it would have been even better w/out the casting spoilers)
On Firefly Joss was constantly taking me off guard
Shooting Dobson was amazing.
Kicking that guy through the engine was cool.
I loved Inara getting the drop on YoSafBrig.
And everything about OiS took my breath away.
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Originally posted by Cybersnark:
Spike getting staked by Illyria.
i forgot about that one! quite a shocker, you are right! it all happened so fast that i had trouble processing it before it was revealed that it was not the present time. i have to admit, at first, spike annoyed me but the more i saw of him, the more i grew to love him as a character and his dynamic with angel. i think he is my second favorite character (behind wes).
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When Buffy (and we) find out the true meaning of "Death is your gift."
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All of the others but I have to add 'Passion' from Buffy S2 for obvious reasons (Jenny Calender) but the scene at the end when Buffy punches Giles..made me cry and still does.
Also, Innocence from Buffy S2. The way Angel acts around Buffy...just an awesome job by David on that one. So creepy and evil.
"..it is my very favorite gun."
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When Dawn shows up...Buffy's WHAAAAT? (I'll deny it if anybody brings it up, but I used to watch Dawson's Creek so I was sucker-punched by the casual addition of new siblings for Pacey, and prepared to be disappointed that Joss would do anything so lame.)
And the end of "Normal Again" ("We're losing her.") BTW I wrote a Firefly story in which Normal Again was a Firefly episode narrated by River's shrink at the Academy.
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