But my biggest Buffy-related tear jerk is in IWRY.
"I felt your heart beat" *sob*.
Though "I can't breathe, Will. I can't breathe" is up there too.
Saffron: You won't tell anyone about me breaking down? Mal: I won't. Saffron: Then I won't tell anyone how easily I got your gun out of your holster. Mal: I'll take that as a kindness.
'Trash'
Buffy 4: Grr. Arrgh.
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Vortex - Aug 25, 2003 12:11:59 pm PDT #5111 of 10001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Katie M - Aug 25, 2003 12:15:05 pm PDT #5112 of 10001
I was charmed (albeit somewhat perplexed) by the fannish sensibility of many of the music choices -- it's like the director was trying to vid Canada. --loligo on the Olympic Opening Ceremonies
Istanbul. I'm pretty sure Istanbul is the only time _Buffy_ ever made me tear up at first viewing.
DavidS - Aug 25, 2003 12:21:17 pm PDT #5113 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
"I felt your heart beat" *sob*.
For me it was, "It's not enough time!"
JenP - Aug 25, 2003 12:27:03 pm PDT #5114 of 10001
Rockin' good show! But my biggest Buffy-related tear jerk is in IWRY.
It wasn't my biggest, but I was kind of stunned to find my eyes leaking quite seriously (so much so, that it made me laugh). By the time she's clutching him and losing it because she's got a minute left? Geez. Raw. She really nailed the sense of time and possibilities slipping away and that it was killing her. Him? Well, he lost me there for a second ... with the fake crying - not his strength ... but he had me back when they were back in the office. He did a good "I just got the worst, most painful gut-punch ever, but I'm gonna just pretend long enough for you to leave so I can collapse."
Ahem. Yeah, I liked it. Why do you ask?
The heart wrenching scene where I think they were both completely on is the one in Surprise when she finally finds him in his room. Killer.
Cant' breathe. Also amazing, per Vortex's post.
ETA: It was the "How am I supposed to go on knowing what we had ... what we could have had?" or like that that killed me. Plus, one of her expressions when she wasn't even talking was just SO heartbreaking.
JohnSweden - Aug 25, 2003 12:27:14 pm PDT #5115 of 10001
I can't even.
I'm pretty sure Istanbul is the only time _Buffy_ ever made me tear up at first viewing.
Damn. I've openly sobbed at Buffy eps numerous times. IWRY crushed me.
Katie M - Aug 25, 2003 12:32:08 pm PDT #5116 of 10001
I was charmed (albeit somewhat perplexed) by the fannish sensibility of many of the music choices -- it's like the director was trying to vid Canada. --loligo on the Olympic Opening Ceremonies
Yeah, I don't know why - I tear up easily a lot of the time, but not with Buffy, for whatever reason. I agree that IWRY is a killer.
tina f. - Aug 25, 2003 12:32:27 pm PDT #5117 of 10001
I didn't mean to bring this thread down.
Didn't bring it down for me. I thought your story about your Mom was very beautiful Rayne.
I have balled at soooo many. I'm a sap. But the first one I cried at was Prophecy Girl. They replayed it some time in the middle of S2 (or am I dreaming that?) and "Do you think it will hurt?" just broke me. Another surprising one I balled at was Tabula Rasa. I know, super sappy, but Giles on a plane = sniffly.
The only ep of a ME show I can't watch due to the sad factor is Hero from AtS. Because the RL stuff with GQ. It disturbs me greatly.
Vortex - Aug 25, 2003 12:35:25 pm PDT #5118 of 10001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
But the first one I cried at was Prophecy Girl.
That is a great scene. "Tell me my fortune!". And it is made so much better by the pain in Giles' face as he watches _his_ Slayer melt down.
I also always tear at "The Prom" - Class Protector. *sniff*
P.M. Marc - Aug 25, 2003 12:40:17 pm PDT #5119 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Sheepish sloppy spot in my heart for IWRY.
Things that get me: IWRY, Buffy breaking down while doing dishes in Listening to Fear, "I can't breathe", Wesley returning to his apartment in Double or Nothing and again with the wordless Wes angst in the way he just sort of breaks after decapitating Lilah's corpse in Salvage, Connor in Home.
Hmm. There are probably more moments.
§ ita § - Aug 25, 2003 12:40:54 pm PDT #5120 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I think the Class Protector award is the first place I cried, in series chronology, but I'm not sure if I cried the first time I saw it. I know I cried on first viewings of The Body, and The Gift (because of Dawn and Spike, mostly), but not sure of any others that didn't involve Amanda fighting.
But my most reliable crypoint is Zoe in War Stories. I get tingly just thinking about that.