The Body

This episode was so hard for me to watch, but such an amazing performance on all parts. The hardest part for me was when Anya couldn't grasp why Joyce had died. The only reason I'm posting this is because I saw this quote..


"But I don't understand, I don't understand how this all happens, how we go through this, I mean I knew her, and now she's...there's just a body, and I don't understand how come she just can't get back in it and not be dead anymore. It's stupid! It's mortal! and it's stupid! And Xander's crying and not talking, and I was having fruit punch and I was thinking that well Joyce will never have 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." - Anya

It's hard because everyone is mad at her for acting the way she does, but she just doesn't know any better! So sad...
 
yeah. everybody says that anya's speech is the saddest part of the ep. i think it too. willow was too hard on anya, she just didn't understand the human life. i guess that xander could have explained that to her but he couldn't have guessed that anya didn't know.
 
that was an amazing scene..there are no words to describe..it..it is so underrated..her expression..her crying..was perfect..especially the "mommy" part, because we all know right then there..that she realized her mother was dead, she was not coming back..I mean as I watched it..it just struck me hard also...you felt what sarah was feeling ..you were in shock..you cried..amazing episode.
 
I think it was also so powering because there was no sound, no music, no nothing. Just a body. You can really tell that Joss put his heart into it, knowing that he lost his mother, you can just tell, that her feelings were his feelings. It was just so sad
 
The Body...
This Is The Episode I NEVER Will Forget.
It was packed With intense thrills and chills
and the Emotion Is Just Too Overwhelming.

I Could feel The Amount Of Anger That Willow Was Experiencing When Anya Was Asking Those Random Yet Rude Questions.

I Always LIked Joyce, She Was Such A Gentle Loving Mother/Person And Treated Everyone With Respect.
I Missed Her Being In The Show...She Was A Big Part Of It For Me.
 
The cool kind of eerie way that they had the whole episode shot with no sound of music in the background added to the suspense of the epi. It was deffinately one of my favorite epis of season 5. And I was crying throughout the whole thing!!!!::crying2:
 
I cired when Buffy opened the door and you can barely hear Children laughing and playing in the background it was as if everything was going fine outside the house but inside it was so calm and cold...
 
I agree with was a wonderfull eppy to watch. Joss did a wonderfull job filmeing it. When I watch it , just like Buffy dying I cry watching this one. I did like how Anya didnt know how to act at first then got mad. Thats just how real life is. No one knows how to act, when someone they love dies like that.
 
Yes, this is probably the most brillant episode of Buffy!! I was watching an interview with Joss, and he says that there is no music in the episode... and I never noticed that... he said that with no music, it makes people feel uncomfortable... and I remember feeling uncomfortable! Does anybody else feel that way?
 
I think the no music factor makes it more real. It's like portraying the harsh reality of death...it's something that happens to everyone and especially in the Buffyverse, to have such a "natual" death (meaning not killed by vamps or mystical or demonic means) it's just goes to show how inevitable death is but also uncomfortable it can be.

Edit: And yes, I also thought this was a brilliant episode. Very well played on everyone's part.
 
Hardest episode that I usually skip over. Anyone else notice the lack of music througout the episode. Makes everything just stand on end...hair wise.

it's probably the most powerful episode conveyed in our Buffy verse.
 
This episode gives me goosebumps everytime I watch it. Death is something that everyone can relate to. Anya's confusion over death always gets to me.
 
This is one of my favorite Buffy episodes of all time. It's just so sad and how everyone reacted to her death was really realisitic. Like recently I had to go to a little boy's funeral and I didn't know what to wear. And then I remembered when Willow was trying to pick out an outfit and she was having a panic attack. I was going through that! I also liked how Buffy reacted when she saw the body. It was so emotional, I cried! And Anya's speech really made me start loving that character.
 
I think they got robbed when "the Body" didn't win an emmy
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It's one of the most overlooked episodes of Buffy. Grown up, scary, emotional - altogether a very powerful piece indeed
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Indeed. It was strikingly brilliant, pretty much for alot of the reasons already mentioned in this thread. Buffy's reactions, the lack of music, Anya's speech at the end, the way they filmed the scene where Buffy broke the news to Dawn at school, pretty much everything about it.

The first time I watched it I, I was like wow. Just wow. The feeling produced by knowing that Joyce is gone for good, it truly defies adjectives. You felt the emptiness, the nostalgia, the shock. For a second its almost as if you personally are experiencing the loss of a family member, or somebody who is very close to you.

This episode certainly deserves praise.

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but t me anyas breakdown was bad acting
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I'm going to have to disagree with you. Truth be known, I actually felt Alyson's acting during the scene where she is indecisive about what to wear to be a little exagerated and fake.

Normally I think she's a great actress, but idk about some of her crying scenes sometimes.
 
I began watching Buffy soemtime around the fourth season, but I was missing so much I bought all seasons on DVD to watch from the beginning, and stopped watching on TV. When I got to "The Body," my mother had just passed away suddenly (aneurism, believe it or not). I couldn't watch it. I skipped it. It took me over a year to return to it and actually sit through it.

Dawn's reaction was pretty much on point with my initial reaction; Buffy's was reminiscent of my response in the following months. The actors all did a superb job portraying their sadness and loss...and Joss did a wonderful job with the episode (particularly the cinematography--the camera angles and lighting were often unusual and stark, respectively). This was, by far, one of the best episodes, and even though it's been years since my mother's death, I still hesitate when I go to watch "The Body"; it's realism sometimes hits too close to home, and it affects me in a way no other episode or movie or book ever has.

Kudos to Joss!
 
I was trying to describe this episode to my girlfriend the other day coz I watched it a couple of nights ago and the only words I could come up with were "deep" "emotional" and "real"

Anya's speech about not understanding ALWAYS gets me. It's just so immensely true how one day someone's there, then the next they're gone and there's no real explanation for what happened and why it can't get fixed.
Fortunately, I've never had to deal with losing someone but I think I would react a lot like Buffy in the sense that I would be totally numb.
The acting in this episode is some of the best I have ever seen because of the fact that it can be very difficult to only show that raw emotion, which is why I think the actors have a lot to be proud of, as well as the writers.
This is one of the episodes that I think the writers deserve full credit for because it's just so REAL. The fact that there was none of the traditional Buffy background tunes made it that more real, almost like there was no sound but the quietness of grief which makes it seem like it's actually happening. It makes you feel like you're there...

I think I've stopped making sense now.....

Truly amazing episode... 'nuf said
 
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I personally thought that this episode was beautifully directed and the way everyone dealt differently with Joyce's death was actually quite painful to watch. With Anya's clueless-ness of the situation, Buffy's complete and utter disbelief at what had happened, Dawn's meltdown and Xander's anger (the hand through the wall bit), I was literally glued to my TV set. I think that it was easily the saddest BtVS episode, but strangely enough, I didn't even shed a tear throughout the entire thing. Beautiful stuff.
 
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