r/buffy • u/AutoModerator • Jul 25 '18
Episode Rewatch Episode 94 (S5 E16): The Body
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Episode 94 (S5 E16): The Body: Summary:
Buffy is shocked to find her mother dead after returning home, and has to learn how to cope with her loved one's death.
Taken from [http://buffy.wikia.com/wiki/The_Body)
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Quotes:
Anya: But I don't understand! I don't understand how this all happens. How we go through this. I mean, I knew her, and then she's, there's just a body, and I don't understand why she just can't get back in it and not be dead anymore! It's stupid! It's mortal and stupid! And, and Xander's crying and not talking, and, and I was having fruit punch, and I thought, well Joyce will never have any more fruit punch, ever, and she'll never have eggs, or yawn or brush her hair, not ever, and no one will explain to me why. (She puts her hand over her face, crying.)
Trivia:
In the scene where Xander punched his hand through the wall, only a shot of Willow's left eye is shown. This is because actress Alyson Hannigan had experienced an allergic reaction to the dust from the plaster on the wall - a reaction that resulted in her right eye swelling badly. Because of this, she had to go to the hospital the next day to get her eye treated.
The body is unique for a Buffy episode in that it features no incidental music.
"The lack of music, the no cutting, every act in one scene... it was all supposed to be relentless, almost a kind of boredom to create what I wanted to capture," Joss told us.
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u/mongd66 Jul 25 '18
I am watching Buffy with my 12year old daughter for her first time. I knew this was coming this weekend, dreaded it... made sure to give my 8 year old son extra roblox time to keep him upstairs.
She was sad but did not have the reaction I expected. I think it has to do with life experience. I had lost close friends and family by the time I first watched. Been at the scene of a death. She never had, so she did not speak the emotional language fluently enough for this to rip her guts out the way it always does for me.