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I'm watching it right now for like the second time ever and I just have to say: THIS IS THE MOST BRILLIANT EPISODE OF BUFFY. Everything about it is just so well....sad, realistic, clever, so many words describe how great it was. The writing was great, the directioin and especially the acting on everyones part made this episode perfectly good tear jerker. Anya's breakdown was really good, but still in character. Xander getting his hand stuck in the wallwas funny but at the same timevery dramatic. Forget Restless or Hush or ONce More With Feeling, this is the best episode in the history of a show that has nothing but good episodes (cept for "Beer Bad" and "Him"). It just pulls at you. Sorry, just figured this episode deserves praise.
 
it does that deserved so many awards! SMG and Michelle were perfect in it!!!! but t me anyas breakdown was bad acting
 
I couldn't agree more, hostile_17. It's one of the most overlooked episodes of Buffy. Grown up, scary, emotional - altogether a very powerful piece indeed. It's most definitely in my top 3 episodes (after Hush and Restless).....

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This episode was the worst!!lol what i mean was it was the worst because it was too real. It made me cry. Joyce was dead and it was natural. Everything supernatural was out the window and here came a death from natural causes.

i was surprised this didn't win an emmy.
 
rene, how could you say that! I think that was a fine bit of acting by Emma Caulfield!

The Body was a masterpiece.
 
i dont know the acting was not as good to me as people said it was everyone else ewas excellent though
 
Originally posted by rene
it does that deserved so many awards! SMG and Michelle were perfect in it!!!! but t me anyas breakdown was bad acting
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What makes you say that?? I think Emma's proformance was very good, because Anya never understood death or even life, people just passed before her eyes and it never accured to her how precious lives can be. And I think Emma showd that very much.
 
In my own personal opinion, The Body was one of the strongest episodes of BtVS to ever be produced by Joss Whedon. The central theme is stong and based completely out of the real world, as each actor and actress gave strong partayals of grief-stricken friends and family. SMG's reaction to finding her mother's corpse laying on the couch, and her subsequent reversion to a child-like state had me in near tears the first time; it was almost like walking in to the house with her and seeing that yourself. The episode captures the silent discomfort that follows a loved ones death, especially since there was NO music throughut the entire episode.
Emma Caufield's reaction, as a demon that didn't truely understand the concept of death and forever, was heartwrenching, I distincly recall feeling everything she said after my first family member died, when I was young and didn't understand such concepts myself. Each member of the cast simply gave superb performances, even Dawn's (who is sort of the Connor for BtVS) fall down disbeliefe seemed genuine and disheartening.
Please comment on the episode, whether you agree with me or not, and tell me what really hit the heartstrings, or if any part of the episode reminds you of personal anecdotes you feel comfortable sharing.
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Loved the ep..'Mum..mommie??' It was really an amzing ep..I agree that all actors and actresses did their best..And if someone after watching that ep will tell me that Buffy is just about demons and slayers I'm gonna serioulsy hurt them..
 
I agree, The body was ,nay, is one of the best eps ever. The lingering camera shots that were all blurry, Buffy's reaction to finding her mother and of course, Anya's speech. All great thing that makes this ep absolutely amazing 🙂
 
The Body was seriously one of the most amazing hours of television I have ever seen. It was so well written and the acting was great.
 
The Body is one of the best episodes ever in my opinion. And the very best of s5. It was so realistic...Too realistic almost, I couldn't stop crying! And Anya was just brilliant, that speech...And Willow not knowing what to wear...Xander with the hand through the wall...Buffy's reaction, Dawn's reaction...It was all so...real...
 
It's the episode to show Buffy naye sayers, not OMWF or Restless or Hush, this is the one that proves that this show is excellent without using gimmicks.
 
One thing that gives me chills specifically is the part where Dawn just falls over with grief and shock. It reminds me of a time when I was younger and my sister was in a very bad accident. She ended up being okay, but we didn't know that at the time. The police called us and I had pretty much the same reaction! When you can say that you've shared a reaction with a TV character you KNOW that's good TV!
 
Jacklyn said:
One thing that gives me chills specifically is the part where Dawn just falls over with grief and shock. It reminds me of a time when I was younger and my sister was in a very bad accident. She ended up being okay, but we didn't know that at the time. The police called us and I had pretty much the same reaction! When you can say that you've shared a reaction with a TV character you KNOW that's good TV!
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Yeah...That's what I love so much about the entire show, and especially this episode, that you can relate people's reaction in situations.
When my grandfather died I had more of the reaction Buffy had, like it wasn't real, and the things people said was like it just slipped by me, I didn't notice people were talking to me.

Oh, and something I noticed...When Xander puts his hand through the wall and Tara says "it hurts" or something like that, it looks like Nicky is about to laugh...Anyone else notice that?
 
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He was smiling to acknowledge the fact that Tara is relating that "it hurts" because Joyce is dead, and it's kind of letting Xander know that she understands why he wanted to cause himself physical pain to briefly relieve the emotional pain.
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Perhaps it's because that is a silly question to ask someone who just put their hand through the wall 😀
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I guess...It looked like Amber/Tara was about to laugh aswell...Maybe they had made jokes about that line before shooting or something...
 
Jacklyn said:
One thing that gives me chills specifically is the part where Dawn just falls over with grief and shock. It reminds me of a time when I was younger and my sister was in a very bad accident. She ended up being okay, but we didn't know that at the time. The police called us and I had pretty much the same reaction! When you can say that you've shared a reaction with a TV character you KNOW that's good TV!
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Yes I get what you mean, I remember on the Audio commentry Joss said something like "it was too real for Buffy, but for dawn it seemed not real enough" or something like that and i had her reaction sw few months later when my good freind Gavin died, i didnt really get ypset or anything but then we had a mass of it and I cried so hard because i realized that it was really true and sometimes it takes a while to sink in.
Also on the commentry he was saying that alot of people rang up and said the4y didnt really get over someones death untill then and it helped them go on.
 
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