What I like about you

We were watching some old (well, of course, they're old, it's not like there are new episodes) Miami Vice eps last night, one of my favorite story arcs, where Sonny lost his memory and thought he was his drug-dealing alter ego Sonny Burnett ("that's B-U-R-N-E double T"). I always thought the Burnett arc was one of the best things ever on TV, partly because it started with Sonny shooting, in cold blood, an unarmed man who had murdered his wife (who later we see was armed, but at that time, and from Sonny's POV, he and we didn't know that). It was totally groundbreaking, no hero had ever done that on TV before, and then later, after being caught in an explosion, he loses his memory and thinks he is that drug dealing killer, so he murders people left and right, as easily and coldly as if he were picking his teeth after a meal. It's a chilling reversal of character, and as the arc continues and his friends find out he's alive but seems to have gone bad, everyone struggles with their love and belief in him. It culminates in one of the coolest scenes I've ever watched, with Sonny finally regaining enough memory to walk back into his unit's offices, and when everyone sees him they train their guns on him, the camera pans around him with his hands in the air, the entire squad pointing their weapons or staring in shock. It's so compelling and heartbreaking, and for a while, resurrected a show that had really gone downhill by the time the arc began at the end of the previous season.

Watching it again last night got me remembering that meme or whatever that was going around quite some time ago, where people were recounting their favorite fannish moments or things they love in fandom, or something -- I'm sure I'm getting it wrong, but I though it might be fun to try to put some down. The problem is, I probably have thousands of the things. As I remember, I'll probably put some more down later.

( Favorite moments in fandoms )

Now I'm wondering just how much more this will jog in my memory.