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Fandom Snowflake Challenge - Day 3
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In your own space, share a favorite piece of original canon (a TV episode, a song, a favorite interview, a book, a scene from a movie, etc) and explain why you love it so much. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.
Dang it! This one is hard. There's so much to choose from. There's Sherlock, obviously, and the Ritchie movies that made me interested enough in ACD's detective to watch Sherlock to start with. Harry Potter definitely deserves an honourable mention. As does The Hobbit, seeing how a functionality we've developed is colloquially called Bilbo. There's The Thorn birds, first book I drew fanart for. Vicomte de Bragelonne, the first book I cried while reading...
...but the first thing that popped into my head was this clip and that's why I'm picking it.
And if the video won't work, here is a link
This is a clip from The West Wing, s03e17, Stirred. It wraps up one of the episode's many subplots within subplots, Deputy Chief of Staff Josh Lyman has beenpunished with given the task to find a person to put on the next stamp while Donna thinks her teacher who is about to retire should be on the stamp. Or a day. Or at least a proclamation. Josh brushes her off, because really...
These things happens all. the. time. in this show. There's a subplot to a subplot to a subplot and the President doesn't like peas and they will now lose the election. That's one of the reasons I love this show. The chaos feel real and the level of closure for each plot line varies a lot because, well, that's life. Not everything is tied up in a neat bow. Not everything has an ending at all. So many things just... disappear along the way while more important shit is going on. Like giving your teacher a proclamation.
So just the fact that this plot line gets an ending besides Josh going "Eh, no." at the idea as we expect, we get this scene. It comes as a surprise to the viewer just as it comes as a surprise to Donna. The surprise is then doubled (for viewer and Donna) when it doesn't end with Josh's memo, but that the President understands how important it is and cares so much about the secretary of his Deputy Chief of Staff that he's set this up. It's heartwarming and not at all why I picked this.
I picked this scene because this is the scene that, without fail, makes me cry. I can't even retell this without starting to cry at "I'm in the Oval Office with the President of the United States and it's because of you." (Typing that, after JUST having watched it to make sure the wording was correct makes me cry.) It's been years since I first watched it, but this scene still breaks me. In a good way.
I don't even know what it is about it. If it's the idea of small people ending up in big places. If it's the ordinary in the middle of the extraordinary. If it's how we can all set people on paths in life that are beyond our wildest dreams. If it's the opportunity to thank someone who's important to you. I don't know. I just know that if I need a good cry, like you do sometimes, I put on this clip and I watch a small town girl no one every expected greatness from, call her teacher and tell her that she inspired her to get on the path that would lead her to the Oval Office.
(and now I'm crying again.)
snowflake_challenge In your own space, share a favorite piece of original canon (a TV episode, a song, a favorite interview, a book, a scene from a movie, etc) and explain why you love it so much. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.
Dang it! This one is hard. There's so much to choose from. There's Sherlock, obviously, and the Ritchie movies that made me interested enough in ACD's detective to watch Sherlock to start with. Harry Potter definitely deserves an honourable mention. As does The Hobbit, seeing how a functionality we've developed is colloquially called Bilbo. There's The Thorn birds, first book I drew fanart for. Vicomte de Bragelonne, the first book I cried while reading...
...but the first thing that popped into my head was this clip and that's why I'm picking it.
And if the video won't work, here is a link
This is a clip from The West Wing, s03e17, Stirred. It wraps up one of the episode's many subplots within subplots, Deputy Chief of Staff Josh Lyman has been
These things happens all. the. time. in this show. There's a subplot to a subplot to a subplot and the President doesn't like peas and they will now lose the election. That's one of the reasons I love this show. The chaos feel real and the level of closure for each plot line varies a lot because, well, that's life. Not everything is tied up in a neat bow. Not everything has an ending at all. So many things just... disappear along the way while more important shit is going on. Like giving your teacher a proclamation.
So just the fact that this plot line gets an ending besides Josh going "Eh, no." at the idea as we expect, we get this scene. It comes as a surprise to the viewer just as it comes as a surprise to Donna. The surprise is then doubled (for viewer and Donna) when it doesn't end with Josh's memo, but that the President understands how important it is and cares so much about the secretary of his Deputy Chief of Staff that he's set this up. It's heartwarming and not at all why I picked this.
I picked this scene because this is the scene that, without fail, makes me cry. I can't even retell this without starting to cry at "I'm in the Oval Office with the President of the United States and it's because of you." (Typing that, after JUST having watched it to make sure the wording was correct makes me cry.) It's been years since I first watched it, but this scene still breaks me. In a good way.
I don't even know what it is about it. If it's the idea of small people ending up in big places. If it's the ordinary in the middle of the extraordinary. If it's how we can all set people on paths in life that are beyond our wildest dreams. If it's the opportunity to thank someone who's important to you. I don't know. I just know that if I need a good cry, like you do sometimes, I put on this clip and I watch a small town girl no one every expected greatness from, call her teacher and tell her that she inspired her to get on the path that would lead her to the Oval Office.
(and now I'm crying again.)
