Hi there, I just happened by and would like to add my two pennies worth. The Doctor saying "Goodbye" to Rose in the parallel 'verse was definitely a hankie job. Firefly-they killed Wash *WAAH*!..and poor Zoe saying "Baby, get up!" When she knew he wasn't going to. *blubbers* Have you seen a British Comedy called "Blackadder". There were 4 series, each one set in a different time period, starring Rowan Atkinson (Mr Bean). The last was set in WW1 in the trenches in France, and for all of the series except the last 5 minutes was played as broad farce as Blackadder and his greasy henchman Baldrick try to cunningly plot their way out of certain doom by "going over the top". Finally they *can't* wriggle out of it, they shake hands and go out. Colour fades to B+W and the whole thing becomes a cinema verite recreation of the Flanders fields, the two of them still charging forwards into slowmo and then disappearing into a misty fadeout onto what appears to be actual footage of an empty battlefield. Colour fades in as does sound. Birdsong comes up as you see the poppies waving in what seems to be the present-day version of the same field. They ran the credits in silence.There was *no* more. I can honestly say that I have *never* been hit so hard by televisual imagery.It was shown nearly 17 years or so and I still tear up when I think about it.
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The Doctor saying "Goodbye" to Rose in the parallel 'verse was definitely a hankie job. Firefly-they killed Wash *WAAH*!..and poor Zoe saying "Baby, get up!" When she knew he wasn't going to. *blubbers*
Have you seen a British Comedy called "Blackadder". There were 4 series, each one set in a different time period, starring Rowan Atkinson (Mr Bean). The last was set in WW1 in the trenches in France, and for all of the series except the last 5 minutes was played as broad farce as Blackadder and his greasy henchman Baldrick try to cunningly plot their way out of certain doom by "going over the top".
Finally they *can't* wriggle out of it, they shake hands and go out.
Colour fades to B+W and the whole thing becomes a cinema verite recreation of the Flanders fields, the two of them still charging forwards into slowmo and then disappearing into a misty fadeout onto what appears to be actual footage of an empty battlefield. Colour fades in as does sound. Birdsong comes up as you see the poppies waving in what seems to be the present-day version of the same field. They ran the credits in silence.There was *no* more.
I can honestly say that I have *never* been hit so hard by televisual imagery.It was shown nearly 17 years or so and I still tear up when I think about it.