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aruanSo I'm skimming a year's worth of fannish backlog like you do sometimes, and in the midsts of all the moot discussions about where fandom could flee and end-of-HP wank, I found this pseudo-meme (the kind that a single person originates as a random thought and others join in through comments) about media quotes that have stuck with you. And I'm really not in the proper fannish mindset to remember the nuances that become fodder for epics and in-jokes and generally up one's street cred, but I do still love fandom and media even all the way out here and just thinking about it while walking down the street makes me smile. So, list.
Scully: "No, wait a minute. You're saying that time disappeared. Time can't just disappear, it's a universal invariant!"
Mulder: "Not in this zip code." - The X-Files
Besides having an excellent all-purpose punchline, this conversation kind of encompassed the whole of the show - alien encounters, Mulder's quest, Scully's disbelief, the real possibility that something freaky could be going on here. It was also my first fandom, experienced mainly on the XFR mailing list and the Gossamer Archive, which I had high ambitions to read the whole of (when such a thing was an achievable goal). I remember being 13 and getting a thrill out of clicking on warnings asking me to verify that I was over 17 to read this story, my parents in the living room behind me watching TV thinking I was making myself smarter by spending all my time on the computer.
"You read my news!" - Ron Burgundy, Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
Um, I have no excuse for loving this movie into little itty bits. Will Ferrell and his pasty gut mash a button I wasn't even aware of. That and Ron Burgundy is a little bit like everyone, I think, once he got knocked down a few notches and had to prove himself. I mean, he jumped into a bear exhibit! He has deep philosophical discourses with his dog! He plays the jazz flute and makes up historical references when he doesn't have real answers! Plus, he leads a mean news team a cappella.
"You're a wizard, Harry." - Hagrid, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Hearing that in the first movie gave me chills, looking at wee Harry and the unimaginable destiny unfolding before him.
"We have just lost cabin pressure." - The Narrator, Fight Club
Still say this in my head when something huge dawns on me. The camera work, that weird zoom that brings the subject closer while making everything around him seem farther away, his flat inflection, the footage of the plane landing as realization sinks in. The ending may have fizzled, but the rest was riveting.
"Kara Thrace will lead the human race to its end; she is the herald of the apocalypse, the harbinger of death." - Hybrid, Battlestar Galactica
This show pulls the rug out from under you better than anything else. People you trusted shoot Adama, some who seem lost redeem themselves in the biggest ways, and, apocalyptic bombing attack aside, even the cylons walk a fine moral line. What does this quote mean? Can the speaker be trusted? Who or what is Kara? Nothing can be taken for granted because you'll invariably be wrongwrongwrong. My heart sank when the hybrid said this, in the way that it's taken too long to figure something out and by now it's inevitable.
"Good riddance to bad rubbish." - Robin Hood, Robin Hood: Men in Tights
I'm sure the phrase comes from a thousand other (Mel Brooks?) movies, but in my head it's Cary Elwes with the exceptionally long feather in his cap and pantyhose saying it. Everyone should watch this shamefully underrated, hilarious little movie.
Anyone else?
Scully: "No, wait a minute. You're saying that time disappeared. Time can't just disappear, it's a universal invariant!"
Mulder: "Not in this zip code." - The X-Files
Besides having an excellent all-purpose punchline, this conversation kind of encompassed the whole of the show - alien encounters, Mulder's quest, Scully's disbelief, the real possibility that something freaky could be going on here. It was also my first fandom, experienced mainly on the XFR mailing list and the Gossamer Archive, which I had high ambitions to read the whole of (when such a thing was an achievable goal). I remember being 13 and getting a thrill out of clicking on warnings asking me to verify that I was over 17 to read this story, my parents in the living room behind me watching TV thinking I was making myself smarter by spending all my time on the computer.
"You read my news!" - Ron Burgundy, Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
Um, I have no excuse for loving this movie into little itty bits. Will Ferrell and his pasty gut mash a button I wasn't even aware of. That and Ron Burgundy is a little bit like everyone, I think, once he got knocked down a few notches and had to prove himself. I mean, he jumped into a bear exhibit! He has deep philosophical discourses with his dog! He plays the jazz flute and makes up historical references when he doesn't have real answers! Plus, he leads a mean news team a cappella.
"You're a wizard, Harry." - Hagrid, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Hearing that in the first movie gave me chills, looking at wee Harry and the unimaginable destiny unfolding before him.
"We have just lost cabin pressure." - The Narrator, Fight Club
Still say this in my head when something huge dawns on me. The camera work, that weird zoom that brings the subject closer while making everything around him seem farther away, his flat inflection, the footage of the plane landing as realization sinks in. The ending may have fizzled, but the rest was riveting.
"Kara Thrace will lead the human race to its end; she is the herald of the apocalypse, the harbinger of death." - Hybrid, Battlestar Galactica
This show pulls the rug out from under you better than anything else. People you trusted shoot Adama, some who seem lost redeem themselves in the biggest ways, and, apocalyptic bombing attack aside, even the cylons walk a fine moral line. What does this quote mean? Can the speaker be trusted? Who or what is Kara? Nothing can be taken for granted because you'll invariably be wrongwrongwrong. My heart sank when the hybrid said this, in the way that it's taken too long to figure something out and by now it's inevitable.
"Good riddance to bad rubbish." - Robin Hood, Robin Hood: Men in Tights
I'm sure the phrase comes from a thousand other (Mel Brooks?) movies, but in my head it's Cary Elwes with the exceptionally long feather in his cap and pantyhose saying it. Everyone should watch this shamefully underrated, hilarious little movie.
Anyone else?
