I heard a couple of people talking about their favourite TV shows and their best moments. I decided to write a post and think about what mine was.
I don't actually watch too much TV. Anything I do watch is more in spurts. I love The Simpsons, it has to be the funniest show EVER and is loaded with so much subtext in it's writing it is unreal. I used to watch The Big Bang Theory now and again but it has gone awful with the cute blonde being so frigging annoying, the geeks are all studs now and the Indian guy comes out with jokes which the writers have written for him that I was saying in real life about ten years ago.
I used to like Heroes but it went absolutely crazy towards the latter stages as they had too many characters and they didn't know what to do with them. Homeland is pretty awesome as is Game Of Thrones. As I am writing this, I have just finished to where it is up to.
I just watch things online at 2am when I can't sleep.
There are that many TV shows. TOO MANY. With all the cable channels and things. Thousands. It is insane to think there are actors out there who are out of work when surely they could get a part somewhere. It is almost as if there are more TV shows than there are actors. Than there are people! I'm going too far I know.
I really don't think acting exists in movies anymore. Too many special effects, editing etc. That is not acting to me.
I did however watch and have watched two more times the whole series of Lost. Regular readers of my blog (if there are any regular readers) would know how much I loved/love this series. And I just wanted to do a lighthearted post again and I thought of coming up with the best TV moment. I didn't choose from any animation, or any films, I just wanted to pick one from a TV show where something I watched just made me go "woah, that was amazing."
So I ended up picking the following two scenes from Lost. I couldn't pick one:-
This is from season 3 episode 10 and is titled "Tricia Tanaka is dead."
Hugo Reyes (Hurley) is shown in a flashback with his dad when he is younger. They are both working together to fix a car however it won't start. Hurelys' father tells him that good things will happen when you believe they will. Also that in this world, you have to make your own luck. His father leaves for Las Vegas and just before he leaves, he gives his son a chocolate bar. At first Hurley doesn't want it but his father insists and promises to return from Las Vegas soon. You hear the song "Shambala" by Three dog night being played.
The flashbacks continue throughout the episode. Hurleys' father never returned until after Hurley wins the lottery seventeen years later which pleased his mother but not Hurley himself. A lot of unfortunate things happen in Hurleys' life after he wins the lottery. People die and one of his chicken restaurants get hit by a meteorite are just a couple of unfortunate circumstances that happen. He believes winning the money was a curse and plans to rid the curse by going to Australia. Hurleys' father takes him to a tarot reader who says she can rid the curse however she is caught out by Hurley and then admits that his father paid her to say that. Hurley then begins packing to go to Australia and his father admits he did come back because he heard his son had won the lottery but also says that he will wait for Hurley until he comes back from Australia.
Charlie has been told that he is going to die soon. It seems that every time Desmond (who isn't in this scene) foresees Charlie about to die, he saves him but figures that Charlie is meant to die and nothing can change that no matter how much they try to change it. Hurley believes this and tells Charlie that he thinks that he brings bad luck. The dog Vincent then comes with a human arm in his mouth and leads Hurley to the camper van you are about to watch. Hurley then wants to fix the van and goes back to the beach searching for someone who might help him do it. Everybody ignores him apart from Jin who doesn't really speak English and gets roped into helping. Hurley finds a skeleton and beer in the van. He then bumps into Sawyer who agrees to help after finding out beer is available and also gets Charlie to help after telling him he can either mope around and wait for death or that they should make their own luck and face whatever is coming. Charlie gets a slap in the face from Hurley and then agrees to help. The car gets fixed, but needs a jump start.
The song "Shambala" is heard again with a beautiful composition from Michael Giacchino from 3:11.
"Victory or death." Can you change destiny? Are people cursed? If so, can you change that? Is everything you do in your own hands?
Absolute magic:-
Apologies in advance as this could get as confusing as my time travel post:-
http://muksblogaboutstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2012/01/time-travel.html
Apparently, the writers for this episode took twice the time they would normally do to write it to avoid the time travel paradox.
This is from season 4 episode 5 and is titled "The Constant." Many saying that it was the best episode of the whole series.
Desmond, Sayid and Lapidus are in a helicopter on the way to a freighter when they encounter some turbulence and then Desmond starts experiencing some strange sensations. His consciousness flashes back 8 years where he is serving with The British Armies' Royal Scots Regiment. After a few moments, his consciousness returns to the present day and he doesn't recognise anyone or even where he is. He has no memory of what has happened the past 8 years. The helicopter lands on the freighter and Desmond gets taken to the sick bay where they meet Minkowski who is strapped to a bed because the same thing is happening to him. Minkowski soon dies of a brain aneurysm
Sayid uses a radio to call the island where Daniel who is a physicist from the freighter asks Desmond what year he thinks it is. Desmond thinks it is 8 years from the present day and is panicking. Daniel understands and explains to Desmond that the next time his consciousness goes back 8 years he must go to Oxford university and find him and tell him what is going on.
Desmonds' flashbacks start happening more and 8 years ago he tracks down Daniel as it is in his subconsciousness to do so and after convincing Daniel that it was he who has told him to come here, Desmond gets shown how Daniel is working on a time machine whilst Desmond gives Daniel some co-ordinates and then Daniel uses those co-ordinates in a maze where a rat is comatose as like Desmond, he was exposed to electromagnetic energy. The rat awakes and then runs through maze which Daniel had just built and the rat hadn't been shown. Desmond then gets explained to him that like the rat, he is caught in a time warp. The rat has a brain aneurysm and dies as it's consciousness cannot take what is happening and Daniel tells Desmond this will happen to him UNLESS he finds a "constant"-someone or something who is present in both time periods who can be an anchor in Desmonds' mental stability. Desmond decides that Penny can be the constant but he has to track her down, find her and tell her everything. They had split up as Desmond believed that he had nothing to offer Penny and Penny is upset and doesn't want to see him but Desmond has to explain to her that eight years from now he will call her and she HAS to answer. He asks for her number-she clearly thinks it is absolutely ridiculous-imagine if someone told you they wouldn't call you until eight years later-but she ends up giving him her number. Cheesy towards the end but so unique and an absolute classic:-
