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TV Show Meme! Day 30!!!!!!!!!
Boy 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 )
-- I know, I am the latest. Will it surprise anyone to know that I was thoroughly unimpressed? Sorry, but if I can figure out your whole mystery and guess some of the surrounding drama before I'm even a hundred pages into a 500 page book... well, the book is going to have to work a lot harder for my esteem. Frankly, I am pretty shocked that people read this book and were surprised by anything in it -- most of it seemed cliche, predictable, and boring to me.
instead. Helloooooo, Gina Gershon and Jennifer Tilly. Whew. I wish they would make a million more smart, clever, sexy, funny, noir movies in which they are lesbians. Watching it for the nth time this weekend, I kept forgetting it was made in 1996 -- it stands up really well. What I'd forgotten since the last time I watched it was that the beginning was so damn campy and hilarious -- and I clutched the hand of the friend watching it with me during the suspenseful bits, even though not only have I seen it before, but I practically have it memorized.
. I saw that movie when I was a little kid (seriously, I think maybe I was eight or nine) -- as a disaffected, unpopular kid who hated school, and all my teachers, and the awful town I lived in, I found the events of this movie extremely cathartic. And while as an adult I can recognize the ridiculousness in every single moment of that film, I can remember being nine years old and thrilled by the cavorting of the main characters.
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. Even my dad quotes from Clueless, although I am not convinced he even realizes he's doing it half the time. Talk about hilarious!
and 
, which is probably one of the worst and yet most enjoyable movies ever made.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif){kind=small}
!! I love 
by Lucy Maud Montgomery, and always have. When the CBC miniseries aired on PBS in the 80s, my grandpa taped it and gave it to me, and I watched it over and over and over again. 
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