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TV Show Meme! Day 30!!!!!!!!!
Jul. 20th, 2010 12:02 pmBoy howdy, is today ever a day for two pots of coffee.
Day 30 - Saddest character death
When I was a little kid, every Christmas with my father's family, we'd watch a movie called Nestor, the Long-Eared Christmas Donkey. At the beginning of the movie, Nestor gets separated from his mother and thrown into a blizzard. But Nestor's mother finds him! And she makes a space for them, and they curl up together in the snow, and she covers him up with her body to keep him warm. But the next morning when Nestor wakes up, his mother is frozen to death and he is all alone.
I don't know who thought it was okay for me to watch this horrible movie as a kid. Scarred for life, seriously. I don't even remember anything else about the movie except for that part, and I am even tearing up right now thinking about it!
But since movies don't count (even TV movies? I don't actually know if that was a TV movie, but whatever), I'm going to have to go with the end of season two of the new Doctor Who! (If you're counting, that's the 28th season!) What does she say? "My name is Rose Tyler and this is the last story I'll ever tell. This is the story of how I died." Just thinking about the last two episodes of season two -- "Army of Ghosts" and "Doomsday" -- makes my throat close up. And the scene at the end? With the mascara and the hands and the wall and the crying? I don't know what it is about Billie Piper, but the way she cries makes me want to cry with her every single time.
You may recall that I spent, like, an entire year after I saw those episodes knitting up pairs of the wristwarmers that Rose wears at the end of "Doomsday" -- here, have a screencap from the show. If you want to knit your own cathartic wristwarmers, here is the pattern, designed by Christina Slattery. It's amazing! It's very easy -- even if you have never done cables before, you shouldn't have much of a problem. I knitted all of mine using the magic loop method (that link is a youtube video), and I totally recommend Malabrigo's Silky Merino yarn for this. (Once I did both wristwarmers with only one skein, but most of the time it takes about one and a quarter.)
So those are the saddest character deaths (well, a death and a "death") that I can think of. And now we're at the end of the TV meme!
Tomorrow: book meme! Are you excited? I'm excited!
( Other days )
Day 30 - Saddest character death
When I was a little kid, every Christmas with my father's family, we'd watch a movie called Nestor, the Long-Eared Christmas Donkey. At the beginning of the movie, Nestor gets separated from his mother and thrown into a blizzard. But Nestor's mother finds him! And she makes a space for them, and they curl up together in the snow, and she covers him up with her body to keep him warm. But the next morning when Nestor wakes up, his mother is frozen to death and he is all alone.
I don't know who thought it was okay for me to watch this horrible movie as a kid. Scarred for life, seriously. I don't even remember anything else about the movie except for that part, and I am even tearing up right now thinking about it!
But since movies don't count (even TV movies? I don't actually know if that was a TV movie, but whatever), I'm going to have to go with the end of season two of the new Doctor Who! (If you're counting, that's the 28th season!) What does she say? "My name is Rose Tyler and this is the last story I'll ever tell. This is the story of how I died." Just thinking about the last two episodes of season two -- "Army of Ghosts" and "Doomsday" -- makes my throat close up. And the scene at the end? With the mascara and the hands and the wall and the crying? I don't know what it is about Billie Piper, but the way she cries makes me want to cry with her every single time.
You may recall that I spent, like, an entire year after I saw those episodes knitting up pairs of the wristwarmers that Rose wears at the end of "Doomsday" -- here, have a screencap from the show. If you want to knit your own cathartic wristwarmers, here is the pattern, designed by Christina Slattery. It's amazing! It's very easy -- even if you have never done cables before, you shouldn't have much of a problem. I knitted all of mine using the magic loop method (that link is a youtube video), and I totally recommend Malabrigo's Silky Merino yarn for this. (Once I did both wristwarmers with only one skein, but most of the time it takes about one and a quarter.)
So those are the saddest character deaths (well, a death and a "death") that I can think of. And now we're at the end of the TV meme!
Tomorrow: book meme! Are you excited? I'm excited!
( Other days )
