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Fandom Snowflake Challenge Day 3 - Favorite Canon Moment
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snowflake_challenge prompt is In your own space, share a favorite piece of original canon (a TV episode, a song, a favorite interview, a book, a scene from a movie, etc) and explain why you love it so much.
I'm gonna try to limit myself but uh. We'll see how well that works.
Season 1, Episode 9: Wolf's Bane
This is the episode that got me shipping Sterek. I knew people shipped it, but up until this episode, I didn't really see it. But in this one, Derek sought help from Stiles, who not only hid Derek from his own father but also gave up his chance at being on the lacrosse team's first line—something he'd wanted all season—to help Derek out. And you could tell Derek didn't have any idea what to do with this scrawny teenage human who went toe-to-toe with him without batting an eye. After this episode, I went "Okay, yes, I am on board with this."
Season 6, Episode 5: The Black Paladins
Holy mother of God, all the stuff with Shiro that had been hinted at for three seasons finally came to a head in the most absolutely stunning way. The fight scene that takes up at least half the episode is amazing and beautiful and absolutely heartwrenching, and I don’t think I stopped screaming for the entire thing. Everything about it—from the writing to the music to the animation to the voice acting—is just absolutely top-notch. This is easily one of the best episodes of the entire series, if not the best, IMO.
Season 5, Episode 9: The Rundown Job
This episode is also known as The OT3 Job, and it demonstrates so much of what I love about the relationship between Parker, Eliot, and Hardison. When you look at where they started in episode 1 and see where they are now, from the competence porn opening scene to the way they work together to defuse a land mine to Eliot and Parker's silent communication at the climax of the story, it's just absolutely beautiful. Their individual relationships are strong but, as a unit, as a team, they're even stronger. And it has Parker's line that sums up so much of their relationship: "For better or worse, we change together." It's a stellar episode made all the better by the years of relationship building we've already seen.
Episode 13: Confidence is a Plant of Slow Growth
So if I were listing the parts of Tiger & Bunny that were my favorite, we'd be here for the next two weeks at least, but considering that this episode contains my favorite scene in the entire series, I'll give it the nod for this day. Trying to summarize just why I love it so much is kind of difficult, considering I've previously written close to 1000 words of flailing on this episode alone. It's not only the culmination of the main plot of the first season and Barnaby's 20-year quest, but also of the rivals-to-actual-partners relationship between him and Kotetsu that's been slowly building since episode 2, and it's so flipping good on all counts. Like some of my other favorite episodes listed here, it's the way everything we've seen up until now has built on each other to reach a beautiful resolution. Endings are hard, but by God, Tiger & Bunny sticks the landing.
Plus, we get the precise moment Barnaby realizes he's in love with Kotetsu, which makes me grin like a total goof every time.
snowflake_challenge prompt is In your own space, share a favorite piece of original canon (a TV episode, a song, a favorite interview, a book, a scene from a movie, etc) and explain why you love it so much.I'm gonna try to limit myself but uh. We'll see how well that works.
Teen Wolf
Season 1, Episode 9: Wolf's Bane
This is the episode that got me shipping Sterek. I knew people shipped it, but up until this episode, I didn't really see it. But in this one, Derek sought help from Stiles, who not only hid Derek from his own father but also gave up his chance at being on the lacrosse team's first line—something he'd wanted all season—to help Derek out. And you could tell Derek didn't have any idea what to do with this scrawny teenage human who went toe-to-toe with him without batting an eye. After this episode, I went "Okay, yes, I am on board with this."
Voltron: Legendary Defender
Season 6, Episode 5: The Black Paladins
Holy mother of God, all the stuff with Shiro that had been hinted at for three seasons finally came to a head in the most absolutely stunning way. The fight scene that takes up at least half the episode is amazing and beautiful and absolutely heartwrenching, and I don’t think I stopped screaming for the entire thing. Everything about it—from the writing to the music to the animation to the voice acting—is just absolutely top-notch. This is easily one of the best episodes of the entire series, if not the best, IMO.
Leverage
Season 5, Episode 9: The Rundown Job
This episode is also known as The OT3 Job, and it demonstrates so much of what I love about the relationship between Parker, Eliot, and Hardison. When you look at where they started in episode 1 and see where they are now, from the competence porn opening scene to the way they work together to defuse a land mine to Eliot and Parker's silent communication at the climax of the story, it's just absolutely beautiful. Their individual relationships are strong but, as a unit, as a team, they're even stronger. And it has Parker's line that sums up so much of their relationship: "For better or worse, we change together." It's a stellar episode made all the better by the years of relationship building we've already seen.
Tiger & Bunny
Episode 13: Confidence is a Plant of Slow Growth
So if I were listing the parts of Tiger & Bunny that were my favorite, we'd be here for the next two weeks at least, but considering that this episode contains my favorite scene in the entire series, I'll give it the nod for this day. Trying to summarize just why I love it so much is kind of difficult, considering I've previously written close to 1000 words of flailing on this episode alone. It's not only the culmination of the main plot of the first season and Barnaby's 20-year quest, but also of the rivals-to-actual-partners relationship between him and Kotetsu that's been slowly building since episode 2, and it's so flipping good on all counts. Like some of my other favorite episodes listed here, it's the way everything we've seen up until now has built on each other to reach a beautiful resolution. Endings are hard, but by God, Tiger & Bunny sticks the landing.
Plus, we get the precise moment Barnaby realizes he's in love with Kotetsu, which makes me grin like a total goof every time.
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