Your Favourite Powerful TV Moments....

[Jax]

I was watching a speech from The West Wing and it made me want to do this thread where I was wondering what are your most favourite powerful TV moments sgould it be the best dramatic moments, best ending, etc.

Heres my first Nominee from one of the best tv shows ever created, "Streets of Heaven Are Full of Angels Speech"

The-West-Wing-Speech

 

[nx1701g]

I have to admit that, even though I was very young, I still remember the scene where Doctor Greene starts crying on the L Train after he lost the one patient on ER but saved her baby. I think that scene made the show into a juggernaut.

 

[sidious618]

I'd be here forever if I listed all of them. I'm trying to think of a topone but every time one comes to mind another one pops in.

 

[RobertVA]

If you're not insisting on the moment being part of a scripted program:

Live coverage of Neil Armstrong's first footsteps on the moon.

Close second was the normally calm Walter Cronkite's excitement during the landing.

 

[Jax]

Close second was the normally calm Walter Cronkite's excitement during the landing.

speaking of Walter, how about the JFK has died on air moment, very powerful though I would say not favourite because well JFK had just died.

 

[Cicero]

The West Wing:

Two Cathedrals (Gratias Tibi Ago, Domine)
Two Cathedrals (Brothers In Arms)
Impact Winter
Noel

Babylon 5:

In the Beginning (Their Stubborn Nobility)

X-Men:

Child of Light

 

[IcecreamLtDan]

Talyn......Starburst

 

[Caliburn24]

Rome, Pullo and Vorenus in the arena.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRW4_pRkBIs

Amazingly powerful moment taken in context and given what had happened to the two main characters earlier in the show.

 

[Cicero]

^ WARNING: The above is very graphically violent.

(There is also some crude sexual language).

 

[Thespeckledkiwi]

Seymour dying in Futurama (first time I saw it, I teared up...what a wonderful, wonderful portrayal of man's best friend)

Julia's death in Cowboy Bebop along with Ed and Ein's departure. That whole series is just wonderful.

I'll think of others...

 

[Agent Richard07]

I have to admit that, even though I was very young, I still remember the scene where Doctor Greene starts crying on the L Train after he lost the one patient on ER but saved her baby. I think that scene made the show into a juggernaut.

I remember that episode. The whole thing was pretty relentless.

The whole Party of Five episode where the family confronted Bailey about his drinking problem was similarly powerful.

 

[nx1701g]

I have to admit that, even though I was very young, I still remember the scene where Doctor Greene starts crying on the L Train after he lost the one patient on ER but saved her baby. I think that scene made the show into a juggernaut.

I remember that episode. The whole thing was pretty relentless.

The whole Party of Five episode where the family confronted Bailey about his drinking problem was similarly powerful.

I was in third grade at the time: I'm amazed I remember it.

I was just thinking of another one because it was something I never expected. On NCIS when Kate was shot they made everyone assume that it was over and that the assassin hadn't been able to kill her. Gibbs and Tony are talking to her and then you see a bullet hole appear right between her eyes. I think it was powerful just because it was so unexpected.

 

[species5618]

Sopranos 5x12 "Long Term Parking" Adrianna is whacked by Silvio...one of the more tragic and poignant murders on a show full of murders.

Sopranos 6x18 "Kennedy and Heidi" Christopher is unexpectiedly whacked by Tony--shocking, yet unsurprising when you sit back and think about it in retrospect.

Six Feet Under 5x13 "Everyone's Waiting" The last 5 minutes of the last episode of the series, showing every single characters eventual death, some a few years away, one as late as 2085. I cried like a little bitch.

Wow...I didn't realize it until after I posted this, but all my powerful moments are people dying...huh.

 

[Colin Xavier]

So many but one of my favorites is the last scene in Angel's "Not Fade Away"

 

[Mistral]

I believe I built this thread recently but I can't find it. So:

GOOD BYE during the MASH finale.

the pilot episode (1972) of The Rookies where a new officer is shot and killed in the line of duty

the All In The Family episode where Archie and Meathead get locked in the basement and Archie tells Meathead why he doesn't like small, cramped spaces. The first discussion of child abuse in clear, realistic terms on network tv that I know of-and a moment I never forgot.

I'll beat everyone to the punch-the death of Henry Blake.

 

[Spot's Meow]

The moment in Friends when Chandler and Monica find out they can't conceive children. That was pretty heartbreaking.

 

[Zulu Romeo]

This moment from the end of series 2 of the original The Office always leaves me stunned:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LuNZtlVpGo

 

[Shatmandu]

The end of the Hill Street Blues pilot episode.

I spent the entire episode growing to love Bobby and Andy, and then ...

Joe, bang

 

[John Picard]

I believe I built this thread recently but I can't find it. So:

GOOD BYE during the MASH finale.

the All In The Family episode where Archie and Meathead get locked in the basement and Archie tells Meathead why he doesn't like small, cramped spaces. The first discussion of child abuse in clear, realistic terms on network tv that I know of-and a moment I never forgot.

I'll beat everyone to the punch-the death of Henry Blake.

These three.

 

[Captain Shaw]

What happened to Jack's grandson in torchwood.