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Challenge #6

In your own space, share a favourite piece of original canon (a show, a specific TV episode, a storyline, a book or series, a scene from a movie, etc) and explain why you love it so much.

Skipping Day 5 for the moment...

And goining all the way back to White Collar, the very first fandom I ever participated in, to the moment that really gave me the hard buzz (there were a lot of soft tingles along the way). Back in the Day, before streamers, when you actually had to wait a week for each ep, USA used to do short seasons and divide them in half, 16 eps, 8 eps with a month break. Hard Sell was the Season 1 mid-season cliffhanger ep and it was pretty fucking spectacular in all respects, but there's always one scene that gets me - when Neal, famously "not a gun guy" picks up a rifle and blows away some skeet "pigeons" to make his point to Peter:

"Just because I don't like guns doesn't mean I can't use them."

Up until now, Matt Bomer had been quite justifibly a lovely man. He's pretty, can do a bit of angst, but anger? That does not seem to be in his repertoire. But in this scene, he brings it and brings it hard. He's so furious, but it's not in an obvious way. I think I watched that episode a dozen times on Hulu the week it aired. More than a dozen years later, it's still an all-time favorite.