Meme: My Top 5 Saddest Fandom Moments
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5. Days of Our Lives--The death of Isabella Toscano Black. Isabella's death was my first really heartwrenching moment in fandom. Since Days was technically my first show where I shipped anything, it was the first show to break my heart. Isabella, love of John Black's life, newly married to him, new mother to baby Brady, expires of pancreatic cancer as she dances in her husband's arms.
4. Buffy the Vampire Slayer--Buffy sacrificing herself for Dawn in The Gift. The way that last scene plays out with Dawn, the key, trying to close the portal to the hell dimension and Buffy stopping her. You see the realization of what the first slayer has been saying all along, what she means by death is your gift, while that haunting score plays in the background. You also see Dawn's realization of what buffy intends to do. You can see Buffy talking to her sister but not what is said. Not until minute later when she throws herself into the portal. And then the words flow like the blood did and her body closes the portal and you see everyone's reaction to her lying broken and lifeless at the base of the tower. And you know nothing less would ever have had that effect.
3. Farscape--The death of John Chriton. Strong, proud, beautiful Aeryn Sun had finally allowed herself to love this crazy alien man. And they were so happy for such a brief moment in time, only to have that snatched away by his death. And just because there was a duplicate of John with all the same thoughts and love for Aeryn up until the point they diverged, meant very little at first to the grieving Peacekeeper. Watching a woman who had fought all her life to keep her emotions in check have to deal with the repercussion was painful in the best kind of way.
2. Doctor Who--Doomsday--The parting of Rose and Ten, seemingly forever as they are trapped in seperate universes. Just how much they loved each other was never made more clear than in that moment when she reaches for her and he says "No Touch." When you realize how painful that is, because all they were ever about was touch, that craving of contact between two people who had such a desperate need of each other. The idea that these two could be seperated forever was one of the most devastating things I've experienced through the medium of television.
1. Angel--The death of Winnifred Burkle hit me harder than any other. Perhaps because I didn't know it was coming, but mostly because she was just sweet, brainy, lovely, innocent Fred, who everyone adored. She and Westley had finally, finally, finally gotten together and usually Joss gives couples a few weeks before he starts to screw them over. Fred and Westley were always endgame for me on that show and to get to bask in it for all of two halfs of two episodes was not enough. Her death was haunting. Her fear as she lost power over her body, and the horrible painfulness of her dying, was made worse only by poor Westley's reaction to it all. Her begging him to tell her parents it was quick and that it wasn't painful, when it so clearly was and you just know he'd have done that for her. He was so loving, so strong, so heartbroken. Breaking his quiet strength this way was quite unnecessary since the actress remained on the show as the God Illyria. Just...didn't need to be done, as interesting as the storyline was. It would have been far more interesting of it had been a Fred/Illyria split personality taking turns with who was in charge of the body. Just saying. Made me cry buckets.
5. Days of Our Lives--The death of Isabella Toscano Black. Isabella's death was my first really heartwrenching moment in fandom. Since Days was technically my first show where I shipped anything, it was the first show to break my heart. Isabella, love of John Black's life, newly married to him, new mother to baby Brady, expires of pancreatic cancer as she dances in her husband's arms.
4. Buffy the Vampire Slayer--Buffy sacrificing herself for Dawn in The Gift. The way that last scene plays out with Dawn, the key, trying to close the portal to the hell dimension and Buffy stopping her. You see the realization of what the first slayer has been saying all along, what she means by death is your gift, while that haunting score plays in the background. You also see Dawn's realization of what buffy intends to do. You can see Buffy talking to her sister but not what is said. Not until minute later when she throws herself into the portal. And then the words flow like the blood did and her body closes the portal and you see everyone's reaction to her lying broken and lifeless at the base of the tower. And you know nothing less would ever have had that effect.
3. Farscape--The death of John Chriton. Strong, proud, beautiful Aeryn Sun had finally allowed herself to love this crazy alien man. And they were so happy for such a brief moment in time, only to have that snatched away by his death. And just because there was a duplicate of John with all the same thoughts and love for Aeryn up until the point they diverged, meant very little at first to the grieving Peacekeeper. Watching a woman who had fought all her life to keep her emotions in check have to deal with the repercussion was painful in the best kind of way.
2. Doctor Who--Doomsday--The parting of Rose and Ten, seemingly forever as they are trapped in seperate universes. Just how much they loved each other was never made more clear than in that moment when she reaches for her and he says "No Touch." When you realize how painful that is, because all they were ever about was touch, that craving of contact between two people who had such a desperate need of each other. The idea that these two could be seperated forever was one of the most devastating things I've experienced through the medium of television.
1. Angel--The death of Winnifred Burkle hit me harder than any other. Perhaps because I didn't know it was coming, but mostly because she was just sweet, brainy, lovely, innocent Fred, who everyone adored. She and Westley had finally, finally, finally gotten together and usually Joss gives couples a few weeks before he starts to screw them over. Fred and Westley were always endgame for me on that show and to get to bask in it for all of two halfs of two episodes was not enough. Her death was haunting. Her fear as she lost power over her body, and the horrible painfulness of her dying, was made worse only by poor Westley's reaction to it all. Her begging him to tell her parents it was quick and that it wasn't painful, when it so clearly was and you just know he'd have done that for her. He was so loving, so strong, so heartbroken. Breaking his quiet strength this way was quite unnecessary since the actress remained on the show as the God Illyria. Just...didn't need to be done, as interesting as the storyline was. It would have been far more interesting of it had been a Fred/Illyria split personality taking turns with who was in charge of the body. Just saying. Made me cry buckets.
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Date: 2012-02-14 09:47 am (UTC)Fred was my favourite too. I will never not be sad that she was killed. Anya's dying on Buffy also makes me so so sad. Poor Xander.