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Specific extra special television moments that will stay with you forever

Shardovan

...by which I mean not the whole show or even an episode, but a scene or exchange or fragment of the thing where you got chills because it was so perfectly done:

One I just thought of:

The moment in Northern Exposure Season 6 when Joel has this sudden epiphany while visiting a patient in a remote Native American village to treat a patient, and spontaneously decides - even to his own surprise - to stay. There and then. Instantly off grid. He's about to head off down river, and is talking to a villager on his way back to the boat. The exchange goes something like:

Joel: 'So, you ever gonna get running water put in here?'
Villager: 'No'
Joel: 'What about having a line put in?'
Villager: 'No'
Joel: 'Huh. What about cable?'
Villager: 'No'
[beat of total silence, camera subtly zooms in]
Joel: 'Can I live here?'

I got goosebumps the first time, and I still do. Peak television that show, and that was one of those touchstone moments that tilted the world.

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  • There are a couple of things that have remained lodged in my memory, which both relate to 'the news'. The first was a few days before my 6th birthday when I guess I must have been kept off school due to being unwell. My mother was in bed, and I'd gone downstairs and switched the TV on. There was a news reporter stating that John Lennon had been assassinated, which left me feeling shocked and scared. I remember running out of the living room and up the stairs to my mother's bedroom to tell her (she was a Beatles fan). 

    My second recollection dates back to 2001. My TV was on, but with the sound muted because a friend had phoned me. As she was busy telling me that she thought she was losing the plot (she was pregnant and had become more forgetful than usual), I just happened to glance at the TV. Initially, I thought what was being broadcast on my TV was a film, and then realised it was the news and that something catastrophic had happened. When my friend then heard me letting out shocked gasps, she assumed it was in response to what she had been telling me. The date was 9th September 2001.

    The only non-news thing that springs to mind is THAT scene from the film 'Basic Instinct'. Astonished

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  • There are a couple of things that have remained lodged in my memory, which both relate to 'the news'. The first was a few days before my 6th birthday when I guess I must have been kept off school due to being unwell. My mother was in bed, and I'd gone downstairs and switched the TV on. There was a news reporter stating that John Lennon had been assassinated, which left me feeling shocked and scared. I remember running out of the living room and up the stairs to my mother's bedroom to tell her (she was a Beatles fan). 

    My second recollection dates back to 2001. My TV was on, but with the sound muted because a friend had phoned me. As she was busy telling me that she thought she was losing the plot (she was pregnant and had become more forgetful than usual), I just happened to glance at the TV. Initially, I thought what was being broadcast on my TV was a film, and then realised it was the news and that something catastrophic had happened. When my friend then heard me letting out shocked gasps, she assumed it was in response to what she had been telling me. The date was 9th September 2001.

    The only non-news thing that springs to mind is THAT scene from the film 'Basic Instinct'. Astonished

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  • in reply to Sporadic Sparkly

    As I followed the media reporting on that particular day, I got an overwhelming feeling of being "sold" something. And something being "not quite right with this picture"... 

    Some time later a site called "spot the boeing" appeared where they showed us the single fleeting glance that we got of the facade of the pentagon, before it got swiftly pulled down. Then I remembered what I'd half noticed at the time, and really started to look at the evidence, until a formal organisation appeared called "Architects and Engineers for 9/11 truth" and they did a MUCH better job that I ever could...

  • in reply to Sporadic Sparkly

    Those are huge moments, no wonder they’re indelibly etched. I was just recently pondering on how every famous person at some point signs a final autograph, but the owner of that autograph is unlikely to know that theirs was the very last. Whoever got that signature in the Mark Chapman photo must be the only exception.