OT maybe the best scene from the best TV show ever....

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Love the Mad Men scene, but disagree so wildly about the GoT scene. That scene and what followed are what took that show from the greatest ever and instead made it a show that was as good as any there’s ever been, but then collapsed over the final season, leaving such a bad taste that it’s not even in the conversation anymore. If Dany were going to turn the way she did, the show needed to be 2-3 seasons longer. The speed at which everything happened the last 2 seasons just to wrap it up ruined it, including this scene where Dany snapped, which just made no sense and to me at that point in the show.
I would say the battle with the dead lived up to the hype. The build up from the episode before to the start was intense and the dathrakie ride into the dead chilling. For me that was the peak of that show. After that the show went downhill. Winter is coming said from episode 1. For me that episode was the best and last. Battle of the bastards was second.
 

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I would say the battle with the dead lived up to the hype. The build up from the episode before to the start was intense and the dathrakie ride into the dead chilling. For me that was the peak of that show. After that the show went downhill. Winter is coming said from episode 1. For me that episode was the best and last. Battle of the bastards was second.
Well, I love The Bells - Dany just destroying everything was just so satisfying. I had been rooting for her from Day 1 so it sucked that it went the way it did. Most satisfying scene was Arya’s Revenge.
 
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Controversial, but the single greatest scene from the best TV show ever is from The Bells (GoT) when Dany loses her sh*t.

Second is Don Draper’s Kodak ‘Carousel’ pitch.

Third might be Peggy’s destruction of Pete (also ‘Mad Men’ but have to find).




Don Draper was better at his job than just about anyone on TV. Boy was he flawed though...
 

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Well, I love The Bells - Danyjust destroying everything was just so satisfying. I had been rooting for her from Day 1 so it sucked that it went the way it did. Most satisfying scene was Arya’s Revenge.
Couldn’t she hear the damn bells. The brothers fight was the same fight from Highlander on the stairs when Sean Connery bought it. What a ripoff
 

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What most movies lack..... the absence of recoil of a firearm . The recoil is due to the thrust of a mass, the projectile. The energy that pushes forward is also sent back and is believed to make the handgun raise or the long gun back. You never see that, which gives the illusion that you can string together precise shots with childish ease and especially without sore. In the absence of a projectile, no thrust.











 

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What most movies lack..... the absence of recoil of a firearm . The recoil is due to the thrust of a mass, the projectile. The energy that pushes forward is also sent back and is believed to make the handgun raise or the long gun back. You never see that, which gives the illusion that you can string together precise shots with childish ease and especially without sore. In the absence of a projectile, no thrust.











#3 FTW
 

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I've watched a lot of TV in my 7 decades of life. I'm sure, upon reflection, I could come up with dozens of terrific scenes, but off the top of my head I can think of a half dozen, and they are all from The West Wing. Damn, I miss that show.
I haven't watched much tv in my life basically being on the road. More bars than motel rooms.
A remarkable TV series that I watched several times since I was injured in a construction accident in the early 90's and home bound. 1995 to current became "whole" again ....
 
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An interesting tid-bit i saw today....

After having dropped Pert Kelton in the role of Alice on "The Honeymooners" due to blacklisting, Jackie Gleason had to find another Alice.


When the young glamorous Audrey Meadows auditioned for the role, Gleason rejected her on the grounds that nobody would believe she could be married to Ralph.


Meadows went home and took off the makeup, messed her hair and put on the dowdy housedress. When Gleason saw her picture he was sold.

And the rest is television history.
 

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The last scene in Bob Newhart’s second series where he wakes up in his old bedroom with Suzanne Pleshette was priceless, one of the best kept secrets that NO ONE saw coming. Brilliantly written and brilliantly presented!
Bob Newharts wife Ginnie came up with that idea while at a Christmas party where Suzanne Pleshette was also in attendance.

She passed away recently.
 

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Bob Newharts wife Ginnie came up with that idea while at a Christmas party where Suzanne Pleshette was also in attendance.

She passed away recently.

I never knew who came up with the idea but it was genius. Yeah, I saw that she just passed in the last week or so.
 

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The two most memorable scenes for me from Band of Brothers were when the Dutch woman hung an orange sheet out her window and finding the death camp. I am sure a lot of people watching did not know that orange is the national color of the Netherlands. Those two scenes say so much without the use of dialogue.
 

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The two most memorable scenes for me from Band of Brothers were when the Dutch woman hung an orange sheet out her window and finding the death camp. I am sure a lot of people watching did not know that orange is the national color of the Netherlands. Those two scenes say so much without the use of dialogue.
The D-Day jump scene and the shelling at Bastogne was as intense as it gets.
 

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Years ago, I always wanted the finale of "Murder She Wrote" to have it revealed that the Jessica Fletcher character had actually committed all the murders and had framed all those people for what she had done. Probably would have killed the fans of the show but it would have been glorious.