Question of the day

[chacusha]

questionoftheday asks: What is the most ridiculous thing you have ever cried over?

My answer:
To be clear, this is a "very ridiculous thing that I cried over because it was so ridiculous" and not a "thing that was ridiculous to cry over".

The "Rascals" episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation.

My partner and I had already had this running joke that, in Star Trek, NEVER get into a shuttlecraft. You will be attacked and die, or crash on a planet, or be sucked into a Negative Space Wedgie. (Or I would find out later, you might accidentally tear the fabric of the multiverse!)

So... "Rascals" opens with four people returning to the Enterprise on a shuttlecraft. Already, alarm bells are ringing in my head. Not only that, they are an UNUSUAL set of four people: Picard, Keiko, Ro, and Guinan. ALARM BELLS.

But they make it to the Enterprise safely without incident.

Whew.

Looks like not EVERY time you get in a shuttlecraft, there's a disaster -- wait -- there's been a transporter accident, you say?!

ALARM. BELLS.

And then there's the reveal.


They are children now.


The opening credits roll. The whole episode will be about this.

The mix of apprehension, fake-out relief, more anxiety, utter ridiculousness, and excited anticipation was too much for me. I just broke down crying within the first five minutes of the episode.

Comments

[breyzyyin]

I remember that episode! ♥

As for the question itself...I am strange and tend to cry over extremely bizarre things normally and then remain stoic over things that DO make me quite sad, so I am not sure how to answer. I will note that there was an episode of an anime called Zenki that was normally nowhere near thought-provoking that had me breaking down for hours after watching it...but the ending to said episode ended up being far more emotional than I had anticipated and I feel like that "catching off-guard" moment given the series' normal approach to episodes was probably what did me in.