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NaBloPoMo Day 29 and 30
Nov. 30th, 2013 10:45 pm29 What movie, book, or TV episode makes you cry without fail? (Or get wibbly, if you're not a crier.)
As jaqofspades reminded me when I read her entry, the last thing I looked at that made me sob was the Farewell Finn episode of Glee because of the circumstances and the performances and Romy Rosemont who absolutely deserves an Emmy for the scene she did.
However, my bulletproof answer, the one that I can't think of without hurting even all these years later, is the Babylon 5 finale, Sleeping in Light -- it aired over here over New Year's and I was away and looked at the last three episodes in a row on my own, thank goodness, because by the end I was just hysterical. The goodbye scene between Sheridan and Delenn had me full on ugly crying (and I'd cried already) and the last speech by Ivanova...
An expedition to Coriana space found Sheridan's ship a few days later, but they never found him. All the airlocks were sealed, but there was no trace of him inside. Some of the Minbari believe he'll come back some day, but I never saw him again in my lifetime.
Babylon 5 was the last of the Babylon stations. There would never be another. It changed the future, and it changed us.
It taught us that we had to create the future, or others will do it for us. It showed us that we have to care for each other – because if we don't, who will? And that strength sometimes comes from the most unlikely of places.
Mostly, though, I think it gave us hope that there can always be new beginnings, even for people like us.
As for Delenn.... Every morning for as long as she lived, Delenn got up before dawn and watched the sun come up.
BRB, bawling.
30 We started the month with something funny. Send us off with something else that tickles your funny bone!
From the sublime to the ridiculous...
Brendan O'Carroll is a very well known Irish comedian whose series Mrs Brown's Boys has done really well on the BBC. He plays Agnes Brown, the stereotypical Irish mammy and I cry laughing at most of the episodes. The scene where Agnes accidentally takes some LSD and ends up running around the house impersonating a horse while dressed as Wonder Woman -- I was in pain from laughing so hard.
As jaqofspades reminded me when I read her entry, the last thing I looked at that made me sob was the Farewell Finn episode of Glee because of the circumstances and the performances and Romy Rosemont who absolutely deserves an Emmy for the scene she did.
However, my bulletproof answer, the one that I can't think of without hurting even all these years later, is the Babylon 5 finale, Sleeping in Light -- it aired over here over New Year's and I was away and looked at the last three episodes in a row on my own, thank goodness, because by the end I was just hysterical. The goodbye scene between Sheridan and Delenn had me full on ugly crying (and I'd cried already) and the last speech by Ivanova...
An expedition to Coriana space found Sheridan's ship a few days later, but they never found him. All the airlocks were sealed, but there was no trace of him inside. Some of the Minbari believe he'll come back some day, but I never saw him again in my lifetime.
Babylon 5 was the last of the Babylon stations. There would never be another. It changed the future, and it changed us.
It taught us that we had to create the future, or others will do it for us. It showed us that we have to care for each other – because if we don't, who will? And that strength sometimes comes from the most unlikely of places.
Mostly, though, I think it gave us hope that there can always be new beginnings, even for people like us.
As for Delenn.... Every morning for as long as she lived, Delenn got up before dawn and watched the sun come up.
BRB, bawling.
30 We started the month with something funny. Send us off with something else that tickles your funny bone!
From the sublime to the ridiculous...
Brendan O'Carroll is a very well known Irish comedian whose series Mrs Brown's Boys has done really well on the BBC. He plays Agnes Brown, the stereotypical Irish mammy and I cry laughing at most of the episodes. The scene where Agnes accidentally takes some LSD and ends up running around the house impersonating a horse while dressed as Wonder Woman -- I was in pain from laughing so hard.
