30 Days Meme, Day 12: Scene(s) that made your heartbreak?

[clocketpatch]

This happened virtually every other episode, especially towards the end of the series when everything bad that could possibly happen just kept on happening in relentless succession. Here's a photo essay about all of the saddest scenes. Fair warning, this contains lots of spoilers, sobs, and Avon. Because of course it does.




Bounty: "Get on with it."

Up to this point in the series, I'd enjoyed Avon's quips and silly outfits, but I wasn't completely sold on the character. But this moment in Bounty sold me, because it is the first time (and one of the only times) you see Avon completely without pretense, and even though I think it's supposed to be funny, I find it really sad.


Pressure Point: That ending

I had no idea this was coming. Plus, I'm one of those people who actually likes Gan, so this was just awful.


Countdown: "You're lying."


Rumours: "Is that how long I've been here?"

This whole arc is just the saddest thing (and while the main arc is between these two episodes, I count most of the rest of the sad moments as being directly tied to it)


Terminal: ""I have failed you."

*sobs*


Orbit: ""Vila weighs seventy-three kilos, Avon."

This is made even worse because I was just looking at #1, and they were that close once. Series 4, why do you have to break all of the beautiful  things?


Blake: "My emergency power cells are virtually exhausted, I'm afraid."

The spaceships get me every time


Blake: That ending

1. Favourite episode
2. What you wish happened
3. An unpopular/cracky opinion you hold
4. Your song/fan mix for the show
5. Most Romantic moment?
6. Favourite photo/screenshot
7. Favourite non-romantic OTP
8. Crackiest moment?
9. How would you convert someone to your show?
10. What show related fan works you would like to see?
11. Worst decision
12. Scene that made your heartbreak?
13. Best use of a hoary old trope
14. Most woeful use of SFX
15. Best scene involving eating/drinking
16. Something that made you Think
17. Something that made you Laugh
18. Best series opener
19. Best season finale
20. Which character would you like to go to lunch with?
21. Crime against fashion
22. Favourite quote(s)
23. Favourite costume/clothing/accessory
24. Favourite character moment
25. Biggest BAMF
26. Something from your head fanon
27. Least Favourite episode
28. Which character would you be?
29. All the pairings you ship
30. The coolest thing

Comments

[lycoris.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's it, I clearly need to watch Bounty again. I do not remember this at all AND THAT IS JUST WRONG.

My feelings about Gan are "meh" but I thought it was such a sad end. He deserved better (both the actor with the character and the character because POOR GAN DAMMIT.) And then Vila is so sad in the next episode.

Zen's death never fails to make me cry. It's just awful. Poor, poor Zen.

ORBIT OH IN THE HEART RIGHT IN THE HEART.

And the end. :( :( :(

[clocketpatch]

Vila finally cracks Blake's collar and Avon, staring blankly into space, says, "I'm next." And doesn't snark or response to Vila's whinging at all. Just, "Get on with it."

Granted, all the rest of the crew are quick to line up, but Avon's so right there about it when he'd been pretending the whole time not to be bothered. It just makes me want to snuggle him.

And then all the rest of it. Show. Show. Why do you break my heart so frequently? and with such dastardly thoroughness?

[thisbluespirit]

Yes, Zen, and Orbit, and all of Blake, especially Slave (it's the moment where he uses Tarrant's name, where he's never done that before - it's always "sir" and things - that gets me) and the ending.

*sobs*

[clocketpatch]

Both of the ships showing their humanity and sentience right at the end when their programming breaks down... *bawls*

[mithen.livejournal.com]

Oh god, the ships are the most heartbreaking deaths, somehow. Like you say, that right there at the end they suddenly seem SO "human" and real, it shatters me.

"Blake" is terrible, but "Orbit" breaks my heart so much more in some ways--it's so creepy and sad and wrong...