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icarus_chained) wrote2012-07-25 08:49 pm
icarus_chained) wrote2012-07-25 08:49 pm
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Moments of Connection?
I'm just thinking. You know those moments, in your fictions, when characters just connect, for a moment or two? When someone reaches out, in one way or another, lets someone else see something for a second at a time? Where they just ... reach out.
I'm just thinking what were some of my favourite of those moments.
Like, in Captain America, when Bucky tells Steve who he's following, and it's not Captain America.
Like in Avengers, when Natasha and Clint just sit, shoulder to shoulder, while he gets himself back. Or when Thor grasps Steve's arm in Manhattan, as they get ready to keep fighting. Or basically everything about Tony and Bruce.
Like in Sherlock Holmes, in the Granada version of 'Six Napoleons', when Lestrade tells Holmes that they don't resent him, down the Yard, but are proud to work with him. Or 'Three Garridebs', when Watson gets shot, and Holmes lets rather more show than he would normally in panicked response. Or, in the Downey version, when Watson's in hospital, and Mary is the one to tell Holmes that John wouldn't regret the injury, so long as it helped him.
Like in Haven, when Audrey does those hundreds of tiny, casual things for Nathan that apparently no-one in his life beforehand thought to do.
Like in Criminal Minds, when Morgan tells Garcia that she's his 'god given solace'. When Hotch tells Emily to come to him when she's just ... having a bad day. When Rossi tells Hotch that he damn well is allowed to be happy.
Like in L.A. Confidential, that conversation that repeatedly breaks my heart, where Ed and Jack tell each other why they became cops.
Like in Sanctuary, in the midst of the pain and anger of Revelations, where John pointedly avoids telling James why he can't leave him to die.
Like in Star Trek, that wholly silent conversation at the end of Search for Spock, where McCoy just taps his head and smiles. Or that again silent conversation at the end of Amok Time, where Spock just grabs hold of Kirk and grins stupidly at him.
Like that entire episode in Starsky and Hutch where Hutch was forcibly strung out, and Starsky's just there for him the whole way.
... You know. Those moments. Those small, sometimes quiet, sometimes fraught, moments where characters reach out and connect to each other. Some of the best moments in fiction.
Do you guys have favourites, of those moments?
I'm just thinking what were some of my favourite of those moments.
Like, in Captain America, when Bucky tells Steve who he's following, and it's not Captain America.
Like in Avengers, when Natasha and Clint just sit, shoulder to shoulder, while he gets himself back. Or when Thor grasps Steve's arm in Manhattan, as they get ready to keep fighting. Or basically everything about Tony and Bruce.
Like in Sherlock Holmes, in the Granada version of 'Six Napoleons', when Lestrade tells Holmes that they don't resent him, down the Yard, but are proud to work with him. Or 'Three Garridebs', when Watson gets shot, and Holmes lets rather more show than he would normally in panicked response. Or, in the Downey version, when Watson's in hospital, and Mary is the one to tell Holmes that John wouldn't regret the injury, so long as it helped him.
Like in Haven, when Audrey does those hundreds of tiny, casual things for Nathan that apparently no-one in his life beforehand thought to do.
Like in Criminal Minds, when Morgan tells Garcia that she's his 'god given solace'. When Hotch tells Emily to come to him when she's just ... having a bad day. When Rossi tells Hotch that he damn well is allowed to be happy.
Like in L.A. Confidential, that conversation that repeatedly breaks my heart, where Ed and Jack tell each other why they became cops.
Like in Sanctuary, in the midst of the pain and anger of Revelations, where John pointedly avoids telling James why he can't leave him to die.
Like in Star Trek, that wholly silent conversation at the end of Search for Spock, where McCoy just taps his head and smiles. Or that again silent conversation at the end of Amok Time, where Spock just grabs hold of Kirk and grins stupidly at him.
Like that entire episode in Starsky and Hutch where Hutch was forcibly strung out, and Starsky's just there for him the whole way.
... You know. Those moments. Those small, sometimes quiet, sometimes fraught, moments where characters reach out and connect to each other. Some of the best moments in fiction.
Do you guys have favourites, of those moments?