Favourite moment?

Practically all of the first episode. :) I love the first meeting, with Sebastian throwing up through the window. And the supper scene with Anthony Blanche is wonderful.

I think two of the most emotional scenes are probably the one with Sebastian crying on the stairs, and the one where Julia and Charles are standing by the fountain at night, and Julia has a long rant about 'sin'.

Charles and Julia on the ship falling in love. Wonderfully romantic.

For me the first episode is the favourite. It captures the essence of the idylic heady air of nostalgia conveyed in the book. Though these halcyon days of youth belong to the alien world of 1920's Oxford undergrauduates, there is something incredibly familiar, something intangible yet that which one can immediatley relate to. For who does not look back fondly upon a time in their own past which may be described as golden and spent in "Arcadia"?

Mine was where Sebastian says something (drunk) about how Charles was his best friend and he'd treated him terribly. It's been so many years since i've seen that (i've been hunting for the dvd). It had such an emotional impact on me and is one of the things that motivated me to follow acting.

I'm going to ring the changes here. The early episodes are certainly great to watch, and are drenched in superbly expressed nostalgia for a golden era. However, having recently watched the entire series week-by-week instead of in one lump, my admiration for the last episode has grown exponentially.

The death of Lord Marchmain - expertly, beautifully and movingly enacted by Laurence Olivier in one of his later major roles. Here is the master absolutely at work. The range of performance this last episode engendered is extraordinary, from campishly witty, to frail and confused, to the final moment of agonisingly performing his expiatory sign of the cross, every hand movement an effort. One extraordinary moment comes when he is defiantly explaining his selfish abandonment of his wife and family, and cries "Is that a crime?" Cordelia (Phoebe Nicholls) plucks up the courage of her deep-seated convictions, and says "I think it was." Olivier then turns to her with this look of thwarted menace in his eyes that practically burns through the screen.

About half way through the episode, Olivier performs a long monologue while lying with his face against a pillow, an impossible position as any actor will tell you. But he does it beautifully, simultaneously evincing his struggle for every breath, alongside exquisite expression and power of his voice, evoking his passion for the history of his family and Brideshead Castle.

I recommend anyone to re-watch the very last episode and see the Master of the art of acting at his peak.

I liked all the scenes with Julia and Charles. You could really feel their passion and see how they were trying to hold back. I loved the part when he realized they would never be together due to their differences about religion. It's just heartbreaking but beautifully portrayed on both of their parts. *sniff* And as someone else mentioned, their romance on the ship was spectacular.

To me, it was just too hard to get inside Sebastian's head. Besides, he just drove me nuts, the way he insisted on destroying himself. I didn't even care that much about him by the time Charles and Julia were into their relationship.

All of it!

Charles and his father, hilarious. Especially that diner when Charles returns home from Venice (second episode right at the end) and his father asks him if the friend he was so concerned about died. I can watch that dialog over and over again.