you destroyed me

[sab]

That sequence in the Slings & Arrows pilot, when Oliver calls Geoffrey from the pay phone and Geoffrey hangs up and Oliver calls again and they fight, and they confess everything, right there, and right before Oliver gets the answer to the question he's afraid to ask, he hangs up on Geoffrey. You know that one? Yeah. Just fucking broke me.

"You were incandescent," Oliver says. "Why did you leave?"

I mean, it's brilliant, it's always been brilliant, all ninety-thousand times I've seen this episode, and yet fucking Christ it just all came together so well. From the moment Oliver stumbles drunkenly into the phone booth to the moment he falls miserably out to his demise, it's perfect. I mean, it's perfect, a perfect piece of television.


"I'm proud of you," Oliver says. And he means it. "Chaining yourself to a building, defending the rights of the insane to put on shows nobody will ever see."

Comments

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

You know, I also didn't actually post this comment to this post. Which is... kind of fascinating.

[iamsab.livejournal.com]

I felt like I had seen it before! Did you post it to a different post? Or was this just... some old post from furies from earlier this year???

LJ IS being mysteriou.

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

No, it was earlier this week! Because your phone IS still full:)

Hee!