Day 20 - Favourite kiss
Jun. 26th, 2010 01:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thessalian...*incoherent sputtering*
See, my problem isn't exactly having a hard time picking a favourite. My problem is that I have a hard time actually remembering any. The kissing is not the part that sticks in the mind for me, when I'm watching any given show. And if it doesn't stick, I can't really remember it to tag it as 'favourite' in the confines of my head, right?
So thank the gods for Buffy, which contains most of the memorable kisses. No, it's not the Once More With Feeling thing. No, it's nothing with Angel. In fact, it doesn't really involve Buffy at all. The kiss that really sticks with me is the Willow/Tara kiss at the end of the Season 6 episode 'Entropy'. Also, to be perfectly honest, it's as much because of the pre-kiss dialogue as anything else. So Willow and Tara have been broken up for awhile because of that hackneyed, unutterably annoying "magic = drugs" thing (which, don't get me started) but they'd been hanging out and having coffee and flirting at each other and all of a sudden, Tara turns up in Willow's room, and thus there is dialogue:
Tara: There's just so much to work through. Trust has to be built again on both sides. You have to learn if - if we're even the same people we were. If you can fit in each others lives. It's a long and important process, and can we just skip it? C-Can you just be kissing me now?
It's not the kiss itself, though that is awesome and projects that sense that they're both ferociously desperate to be kissing and trying to be gentle and delicate because they're afraid the other's going to disappear if they mmake one wrong move. It's the acting the two do in that moment before the kiss that always gets me. The look on Tara's face, like she's just about to cry, coupled with the little break in her voice in the last two syllables, followed by how Willow's face lights up and then, boom - there is the kissing. And that, to me, is an awesome kiss.
Tomorrow: 'Favourite Ship'. That's going to be relatively easy. I don't pay much attention to the shipping thing either, but at least I can remember the canon pairings better than I can the kissing. And I don't ship out of canon. *ponders Vaughn Rice/Angie March* ...Okay, I don't ship out of canon when the possibility has been utterly shut down, anyway.
See, my problem isn't exactly having a hard time picking a favourite. My problem is that I have a hard time actually remembering any. The kissing is not the part that sticks in the mind for me, when I'm watching any given show. And if it doesn't stick, I can't really remember it to tag it as 'favourite' in the confines of my head, right?
So thank the gods for Buffy, which contains most of the memorable kisses. No, it's not the Once More With Feeling thing. No, it's nothing with Angel. In fact, it doesn't really involve Buffy at all. The kiss that really sticks with me is the Willow/Tara kiss at the end of the Season 6 episode 'Entropy'. Also, to be perfectly honest, it's as much because of the pre-kiss dialogue as anything else. So Willow and Tara have been broken up for awhile because of that hackneyed, unutterably annoying "magic = drugs" thing (which, don't get me started) but they'd been hanging out and having coffee and flirting at each other and all of a sudden, Tara turns up in Willow's room, and thus there is dialogue:
Tara: There's just so much to work through. Trust has to be built again on both sides. You have to learn if - if we're even the same people we were. If you can fit in each others lives. It's a long and important process, and can we just skip it? C-Can you just be kissing me now?
It's not the kiss itself, though that is awesome and projects that sense that they're both ferociously desperate to be kissing and trying to be gentle and delicate because they're afraid the other's going to disappear if they mmake one wrong move. It's the acting the two do in that moment before the kiss that always gets me. The look on Tara's face, like she's just about to cry, coupled with the little break in her voice in the last two syllables, followed by how Willow's face lights up and then, boom - there is the kissing. And that, to me, is an awesome kiss.
Tomorrow: 'Favourite Ship'. That's going to be relatively easy. I don't pay much attention to the shipping thing either, but at least I can remember the canon pairings better than I can the kissing. And I don't ship out of canon. *ponders Vaughn Rice/Angie March* ...Okay, I don't ship out of canon when the possibility has been utterly shut down, anyway.