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⌈ Secret Post #2260 ⌋

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So there's a lot of flamewars in TV fandoms about great episodes, horrible episodes, episodes you hate, episodes you think are the awesome, etc. But how about episodes that no one but you cares about, the ones that no one is offended by, but which no one loves and raves about either, but which you personally love to pieces? Mention the eps you have an atypical amount of adoration for, and tell us why!

I love SPN's "Sex and Violence"

It was just so much insight into Dean's mind and how he views not only his brother but how he views himself. (Dammit, he wants a family. That is all he ever wanted and wants. A simple family. And he doesn't feel Sam feels the same for him as a brother as he feels for Sam. Hence, the siren filled in that need.)

My favorite episode of Doctor Who is "The Runaway Bride".

Yup. It was corny as hell and the plot was dumb and contrived and it was full of gimmicks and asspulls the bad guy gloated and monologued about his plans and the villainess was the single hammiest thing I have ever seen in my entire life, but in spite of all that surface stuff, the underlying connections and progression was magnificent. I don't just mean the Doctor and Donna being epic and David and Catherine's chemistry (although they were about 60% of the awesomeness), but I mean the points it hit: The context of everything happening moments after the Doctor just lost Rose. Donna flipping out upon finding herself accidentally kidnapped by a random alien and managing to bully him into submission without him even realizing it. The Doctor getting Donna to trust him on the motorway. The perfectly turned breather scene of them on the roof where they relax and make friends ~~and get married~~. The organic nastiness of the reception. The scene where Lance tears Donna to bits. The birth of the Earth. The terrifying genocide scene that you never see coming but comes about so inevitably that quietly changes the entire episode in ten seconds without a single wobble. Their exchange at the end. The scope and sincerity of that episode is just phenomenal, in spite of (maybe even because of) the goofy OTT gimmicks and trappings and plot.

Donna was amazing in that one. I was cheering her to become a companion again from that, so when Partners in Crime aired I was like 'yesss!' And she was fantastic in that one too, I'd have to pick that for my favourite. If only for the scene where they're mouthing and gesturing back and forth to each other through the room the bad guys are in, and they follow each other perfectly up until Donna does that whole complicated explanation of why she's there and The Doctor's just staring at her getting gradually more confused until they realize they've been spotted. That was one of the funniest bits of Doctor Who I've ever seen.

It's not one of my top favorites, but back when we did that "if you could only rewatch three episodes of your favorite shows for the rest of your life" thread a couple months ago, this one was of my three, because like you said: the sheer breadth and grandeur and perfectly-pitched illustrative scenes of everything that makes the show (and Ten's character) what it is. It connects to all the themes, all the ideas, all the...everything. It touches on everything. And it contains a good five or six of my favorite scenes in the whole show.

I loved Runaway Bride and I agree with all this.

I was also always surprised when fans told me they didn't like Donna in that episode and didn't warm to her until series 4 because I always thought the chemistry between Ten and Donna was evident from the very beginning.

I really like Fringe's "The Bishop Revival." As a standalone episode, it's solid Fringe body-horror mystery solvin'. I've never seen anyone get really excited or upset by it. I like it because it raises a lot of interesting questions... that the series never ends up returning to. :\ Walter's father was an Allied spy involved in Nazi fringe science?! With the series' continual exploration of father/son relationships, it would have been interesting for them to elaborate more on Walter's relationship with his own father.

I'd love to see someone (fic writers or if official Fringe comics continue, perhaps) address that stuff. Where did Hoffman come from, and why didn't he age? Was it time travel? Maybe there's another alternate universe where Robert Bischoff also hasn't aged, perhaps because of some experiment he and Hoffman were involved with. They could play with similarities and differences with Walter and Belly's relationship... IDK man, I just want more of that stuff!

Star Trek TNG: "The Royale"

It gets a lot of flack, mostly for having such a ludicrous premise. But it's a lot of fun. It's exactly the kind of goofy, loose episode that I really like in a lot of things - it has Riker and Data gambling and lots of old-timey bits and, I don't know, it's just a lot of fun.

YANA another anon who liked "The Royale" as well. The nods to 2001 didn't hurt, either.

"Hammered" from SVU. Sonia Paxton was the only ADA I cared about besides Cabot and Novak, plus I have all sorts of headcanon about her relationship (non-shippy) with Olivia.

Good Lord, that episode was so disturbing, with the video with Scott Foley's head and everything. DDDDDD:

Community - Social Psychology, I love any episode with John Oliver really, and also fans tend to say they didn't love the first season until there were more straight up parody episodes.

I've always liked Community when it's a balance of parody and the more grounded episodes so I pretty much liked all of season 1.

Supernatural's 'Roadkill'. I'm so in love with that episode, it felt unique to me and the ending made me cry. It had a real kind of feeling to me, especially since I've always liked stories where someone's spouse dies and they're not torn up about it forever because omg true love and continue living a healthy life. I think Molly and David had a really great relationship. I'm sure I'm not doing the episode justice rn but yeah, I really liked it.

I love that episode too. It's genuinely creepy at times and piecing together the mystery that she's actually a ghost is very well done. On the first watch, I was surprised at the reveal.

One of my favorite episodes of MLP: FIM is The Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000. And it's mostly because, for some reason, I just LOVE Flim and Flam. I love their designs, I love the way they move, I adore their song (Music Man reference FTW!), and just... yeah. I probably have more headcanons about them than anyone. I'm kind of sad that they seem to be some of the least popular of all the one-shot villains in the show. But I guess objectively, they're not really all that great, I just love them for pretty shallow reasons (they look cool, mostly).

X-Files "Paper Hearts"

Partly because Fox got closure (real or imagined, we'll never know), partly because the mythology of the show pretty messily unraveled after that point due to the way the mytharcs were (not) handled.

Do people really think Paper Hearts is mediocre? I thought that was a pretty classic episode.

I agree with you, anyway. It handled Fox's backstory better than the myth arc did and it was a really well-executed episode on its own terms - X-Files doing what X-Files did best, really. It's definitely in my list of top episodes.

Well, the Breaking Bad episode "Fly" is fairly divisive, but I personally really like it--not a lot 'happens,' technically, but the dialogue & character development is so great, with Walt saying that part of him wishes he'd died happy the night that Jane died, before everything got horrible, and veeeeeeery nearly admitting his part in her death to Jesse. D:

Apparently people don't much like the Doctor Who episodes "Love and Monsters" and "Vincent and the Doctor," but I loved them.

"Love and Monsters" I'm... not really sure why, actually? But I really liked Elton personally, and the fact that the Doctor has his own in-universe fandom.

With "Vincent and the Doctor," it had less to do with the plot at hand than the fact that I was so torn up about Rory, and wow that episode did not let me forget it. So many feels.

I'm pretty certain that Vincent and the Doctor is a major fan favorite.

Then again, this IS Doctor Who. It's impossible to find a single episode that doesn't have at least one handful of people raving about how it's the best thing since sliced bread and another handful ranting about how it's a horrible pile of shit that has contributed to the ruination of the entire show, and both handfuls refusing to acknowledge that their opinions are just opinions and not blindingly obvious authoritative verdicts.

Ahaha, true, I've only seen two discussions of that episode and the majority in both were like "yeah... I thought it sucked and was dumb. :T" So there's my impression. XD

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