What was the saddest part of The Body?

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SpoonsAreCool said:
I think Anya trying to understand the human emotions of the death of someone close to you was really quite sad.
"..she'll never have eggs, or yawn, or brush her hair.."
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Same here. The saddest part for me is during Anya's speech too. In the entire episode, Anya tried to understand mortal death and how she was supposed to act/mourn as human at a time like this, with Willow getting a bit frustrated at her not really showing sympathy. Until she broke down in tears in the Willow/Tara's dorm room.. that speech always gets me every time I watch the episode. I think Emma did a very good job on creating that tearjerker moment.

"...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."

Another sad part for me would have to be when Buffy was imagining how it would be if she found her mother in time and the ambulance took Joyce to the hospital, while the paramedics were trying to do CPR on her.. only to be flashed to reality.
 
well when they are in the dorms and willow is looking for her blue sweater when willow says 'why dont i have any grown up clothes' thats what gets me but also when anya has her whole little outburst of 'i dont understand why she just cannot get back into her body'.
This episode i have to say was deffinatly one of the best pieces of drama i have seen and the whole episode really touches me, when i first watched it i cried and loads but the second time i was thinking what would i do if that had happened to me? Not a nice thing to think about but it does make you think.
 
Add me to the Anya club. Her monologue was just brilliant.

The only thing I think was missing from Joyce's death was a moment of forgetfulness. For example, a few months after my Granny died, I went back to my parents' neck of the woods for a trip. We were having a family reunion and I automatically asked "Will Granny be there?" Shocked silence followed by a renewed sense of silence ensued. Sometimes, as you move on, you forget that someone's gone. I think it would have been nice if one of the Scoobies had brought that up in a later episode.
 
Okay I cried alot through out this episode but for me that saddest parts break down into two categories. First, Willow with Tara and the whole blue shirt escipade. Willow and crying equals me and crying. She really knows how to stab you in the heart 🙂 Secondly, it was sad how surreal Joss made everything feel. I have a lost a close family member and he really captured how monotonous everything is when you are in the moment.
 
I didn't really cried during the episode (probably because I never really liked Joyce and I was sort of glad she was gone) But Anyas outburst almost made me cry. It just sums up everything that is disturbing about a loved one dying. And yeah, the silence during the whole episode was also, dunno, great in a way cos usually episodes like this are all violins and everything. It makes it just so real, everything.
 
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InsaneMystic
welcome to the "Joyce-haters who didn't mind her dying"-club. I thought I was alone with that attitude. :D
0:00:00 to 0:40:00 =P

The first images, when all the good possibilities happens in Buffy´s mind and then the camera back to reality.. it was so true, that´s what you think.. you just start dreaming.

And Anya´s speech, that was terrible sad.
 
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Lou
Oh, COME ON! The opening credits were kinda perky!
Hard question... I think the part Buffy says "mommy" in the beginning.
The hug of Xander & Willow really gets me too, it's not sad but it's just so sweet...
 
There wasn't really a scene that I loved better, they were all great. One of the thing that I loved the most tho was the actor's performance. They were just so great. Joyce was never one of my favorite character (I did enjoy her being there though) and I still cried through the whole episode.

I just love how you get the feeling that Buffy's world is faling apart. I love the Willow/Tara seen and the seen in the hallway and Anya's speech and everything else...

-Blaze-
 
I can't decide. The whole episode breaks my heart so much... When Buffy says "We're not supposed to move the body!" and then she covers her mouth and is in shock, I cried so hard then, but also when Anya gave her little speech. It was so Anya but it completly summed up a lot about how people feel when a loved one dies. I know I felt that way when my Grandma died last year... I was going through a rough time about a month after she passed and had an Anya moment. I had my phone, dialing Gran's number and then realized "I can never talk to her again." 🙁
 
There are a lot of sad moments in this episode. The moments that got to me most have to be.

Dawn's reaction i don't care if you don't like her you have gt to be heartless not to feel for her when she knows and her knees buckle and she's just crying.

Another is most defiantly Anya's speech.

First of all i had the same reaction as willow when she was asking the questions wanting her to shut up. But then she started in to her speech and your heart went out to her. I realized Oh she's not being insensitive she's just not used to death. She has been around many demons and other things that are immortal of course she isn't used to people she cares about dying.

I can't remember whether its in this episode or forever where Giles is listening to that song he and Joyce listened to in band candy. That was the moment when i thought there was defiantly more feelings for her then just friendship.

That is all I'm saying now because i am actually starting to well up again because i mostly avoid this episode and i switched Buffy on cause it was on FX and the episode was I was made to love you. So that's kind of still fresh from seeing Joyce dead on the couch.
 
Oooooh, I completely agree about watching Dawn's reaction. I love how they showed it through the eyes of her teacher and classmates, and all you can pretty much see is her mouthing the word 'No' and then breaking down. It was heartwrenching. 🙁
 
There are just too many sad moments in The Body but the few that had me welling up was when Buffy called Joyce "The Body" when she told Giles not to move her. Buffy's reaction at what she said just had me in tears, another was like everyone elses Anya's desperation to know how grief and death works in a human way, that was just gut wrenching to watch.

The entire episode together is just one of the best, the no background music thing always makes me think of all the deaths I've experience. Its a very eerie and poetic episode all rolled in to one, I love it.
 
BuffyElevated
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Couldn't agree more. :)
Doctor: Good as new
Joyce: Oh Buffy thank God you found me in ti ..
*Quick cut to Buffy watching her mother get CPR next to a flat-line*

Dawn: Is she okay? Is she ... but she's okay? But ... it's, it's serious, but...
Buffy: Dawn...
Dawn: (faintly, through glass) No ... No, it's not true. No, you're a liar, she's fine!

Anya: 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.
 
BUFFY: Are you sure...that there wasn't a lot of pain?
DR. KRIEGEL: Absolutely. (I have to lie to make you feel better.)

That part tugged me a little.. =\
 
the mom..mom..mommy just brings the tears straight away its buffy turning into a child again wanting her mom and its heart breaking, also the end when buffy comes out of her little vision and its starting to become clear whats really happening, and finally willow with the blue sweater hunting my god how great is ally in this scene and i remember from listening to the commentary that joss said a similar thing happened to him when someone close to him died and he spent all day looking for a black tie its very true and realistic, overall a heartbreaking episode
 
The part where she tells Dawn gets me everytime. I could never imagine having to say something like that to my younger sisters. Also at the begining where Buffy says "Mum, mum, mummy" is really upsetting.
 
the part with the dreaming of them saving her and then snapping to reality... i lost my mom in Feb of 07 an i wasnt home when she was taken to the hospital nor was i at the hospital when she passed, i was home just assuming she'd be coming back home with my dad... but since then i have, so many times, day dreamed of her being saved or just walking in the door any minute now. its just a thing you involuntarily do. so when i see that part, i bawl. That and Anya's speech, which is also something i have questioned myself... why does it have to happen?

The episode, while of course ive seen before my mom's passing, has hit me now on such a personal level i think the whole thing pretty much makes me cry all the way through.

OH! and when she says "we're not supposed to move the body!" and she realizes she called her mom the body and breaks down. that gets me sooo bad.
 
lollups said:
this episode is definately one of my favourites from the show's entire run, when i watched it recently it made me cry for the first time in about 4 years, which is a credit to how emotionally powerful it really is. as for the saddest part, for me it is anya's speech, in particular when she say's "why" and breaks down. amazing.
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Bingo. This is the big moment for me. The whole ep, of course, is heart wrenching. But the big moment is the beginning of Anya's speech, especially the way Emma delivered the line, "But I don't understand." When her voice cracks on understand I just crack apart. And then at the end of the speech, "No one will explain to me why..." and I can't do anything but sit on the couch and sob like a little girl.

There are other moments in The Body that are wonderful for other reasons: Xander's reaction to Buffy's reaction to Anya's "I'm sorry Joyce died," bit. The look of wonder and admiration on his face when Buffy calmly accepts Anya's heartfelt, if weird, expression of condolence. That, to me, is a truly beautiful moment in BtVS.
 
i think Anya's speech. because she said what everyone was thinking, but felt to stupid to say it.

also when Buffy is talking to the 911 person.
"She's Cold"
"the body is cold"
"NO my MOTHER is cold"
that was really upsetting to me to just hear someone refer to Joyce as just a body for the first time.

and something about when to ambulance dudes came in and buffy pulled down her mothers skirt made me cry
 
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