Biggest "Whoa" moment in TV May contain spoilers

22-12-2010 11:17AM #1

The games forum has something similar to this, so just thought I'd start one here.

THIS THREAD MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS

What are your biggest "whoa" moments in television. Some of mine:

Eko meets the smoke monster in Lost

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17JcnRAeCC8

Pretty much any Derren Brown special.

There are probably many many more that I cannot think of, but what are yours?

homerun_homer · 22-12-2010 11:36AM

I was gonna pipe in just from seeing the thread title that there were so many moments in Lost. Eko vs smoke being a big one.

The last one that got me was in Mad Men season 3 when

the secretary ran over the guy's foot on the John Deer and blood spattered everywhere.

"He'll never golf again."

gustavo · 22-12-2010 11:55AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vK5LacXdwbo

tvnutz · 22-12-2010 12:49PM

Major Spoilers for the best tv show ever made-The Wire!

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View scene here!

What a scene,what an end to such a character. You thought he was too important to kill off and how would the show go on without him. This is the Wire though,so character was safe because in reality no one in "the game" is safe.

Atlantic Dawn · 22-12-2010 01:04PM

The "Pontificator" in the audience who took on Pat Kenny on "Frontline".

tman · 22-12-2010 01:06PM

Hopefully someone creates this thread over in films - tis just begging for some Keanu Reeves!!!

Basq · 22-12-2010 01:20PM

Probably the single best moment on TV this year.. and a real "WHOAA!" moment!

Breaking Bad - end of season 3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RB8t0CCZB4

".. RUN!"

Basq · 22-12-2010 01:25PM

Lads,

Be careful with YouTube clips as they can reveal the spoiler even in the video title.. maybe let's preface every clip / spoiler detail with mentioning the name of the show, and season if possible.

And then use spoiler tags so people can navigate and highlight the ones they have already seen.

Anita Blow · 22-12-2010 01:36PM

Stargate Atlantis-Season 1

In the Siege episode just as the city goes dark and the flares go up. Looked unreal.

Stargate Universe Season 2- Resurgence

When the seeder ship appears and that whole scene of flying into the sun and the drones.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6XWl8UCJac

Basq · 22-12-2010 01:38PM

As I mentioned above.. when revealing plot details, keep them in spoiler tags.

This thread might take more moderation than it's worth to be honest.

ixoy · 22-12-2010 01:52PM

Alias - Season 2's "Phase One":

When we think that it's all over after seeing SD6 taken down, we switch over to Francine's corpse and "Fauxcine" on the phone

Alias - Season 2 finale:

Sydney waking up, on a different continent,
with Vaughn married and a massive memory gap

Angel:

When Cordy kills Lilah. When Fred's soul gets eviscerated. When Darla is shown being pregnant

Battlestar Galactica - Season 1 finale:

Boomer guns Adama down

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Buffy: Multiple instances -

When Giles finds Jenny Calendar dead at the hands of Angelus. When Buffy finds her mum dead on the couch. When Tara gets shot by a stray bullet.

Actually given I've only covered the first 2 letters of the alphabet, I think I could be here a long while

Tomohawk · 22-12-2010 02:13PM

Those 2 scences from the final episodes of "This Is England '86" involving just 2 actors...proper acting for grown ups!

Trev's Rape

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Mick's Death by Hammer!

Pisses over your yank CGI potboilers lads (then I forget that they average age in here and the film forum is about 23 and youse don't do subtitles etc etc- ah the CGI generation)

S. Goodspeed · 22-12-2010 02:22PM

Not sure if this counts but when I saw Kinga on Big Brother go out into the garden with her wine bottle I was absolutely shocked/horrified.

Bacchus · 22-12-2010 02:56PM

Battlestar Gallactica : Season 3, Ep. 4

Storming New Caprica when the Gallactica jumps in the atmosphere

youtube clip of it (bit ruined by whoever edited it but it's the closest I could find)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2enjkVJb4Mw

Dodge · 22-12-2010 03:02PM

Tomohawk wrote: »

Those 2 scences from the final episodes of "This Is England '86" involving just 2 actors...proper acting for grown ups!
Trev's Rape
and
Mick's Death by Hammer!

Pisses over your yank CGI potboilers lads (then I forget that they average age in here and the film forum is about 23 and youse don't do subtitles etc etc- ah the CGI generation)

Wow, you're so sophisticated and educated. I'm surprised you have any time for TV with all the classics you read

22-12-2010 03:55PM

basquille wrote: »

As I mentioned above.. when revealing plot details, keep them in spoiler tags.

This thread might take more moderation than it's worth to be honest.

To be fair basquille, the title says "may contain spoilers" and I have in big black writing at the start saying "this contains spoilers" so if people see something they don't like, it's somewhat their own fault for continuing on in this thread despite the warnings.

ixoy - two major moments from Buffy that shocked me were -

The episode where she has the ability to read minds and figures out that someone wants to kill people

and when

Nathan Fillion is the psychotic preacher - he was such an unnerving character. Probably where he kills the potential slayers without batting an eyelid

ziedth · 22-12-2010 04:30PM

basquille wrote: »

Probably the single best moment on TV this year.. and a real "WHOAA!" moment!

Breaking Bad - end of season 3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RB8t0CCZB4

".. RUN!"

This is exactly what I thought when I saw the title. Actually said "holy ****" out loud on my own after it. Easily my fav moment in any TB series.

Close second:

Battlstar galactica season 3 finale:

The final 5 are shown, even somehow the way they did it I didn't know what was going on till they said they were cylons.

22-12-2010 04:42PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qfjMraEE7o

I thought this scene was extremely whoa and extremely brave, especially for showing that

the Twin Towers existed Over There

Richard Dower · 22-12-2010 04:59PM

Yeah, i would have thought Fox would crack under pressure for that scene.

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