you turn every head, but you don't see me

[echoes]

I was going to answer the backlog of comments I have, picspam Glory and talk about "Crush" and the sadness of "I Was Made to Love You" and how Spike's become kind of an idiot lately, but then there was "The Body". An episode so sad, so beautiful, and so close to a work of art it's astounding.

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[aestheticized.livejournal.com]

The Body. ♥ It's just so good. And beautiful. I love it so, even though it breaks my heart.

[lovestories.livejournal.com]

Oh, I know. I've watched it how many times now? Three? And I cry pretty much through the entire thing EVEN THOUGH I KNOW WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN. And then there's the additional heartbreak with "Forever", Buffy and Dawn holding each other and crying in the last scene. OH MY HEART.

[squaringkarma.livejournal.com]

Anya, with that scene (the one with the "But I don't understand! I don't understand how this all happens. How we go through this. 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!" speech), breaks my heart every single time.

[aestheticized.livejournal.com]

I totally second this. Oh, Anya. ♥

[lovestories.livejournal.com]

ME TOO. I don't think I've ever loved Anya more than I did in that moment. ♥

[futuresoon.livejournal.com]

Man, that is my favorite episode of Buffy, hands-down. It is just...there are people who say TV, especially shows like Buffy, cannot be as "good" as a movie. You see stuff like this, and then you realize those people are fucking nuts. Every single thing about that episode is perfect. It may be the best thing Joss Whedon has ever written.

[lovestories.livejournal.com]

It is just...there are people who say TV, especially shows like Buffy, cannot be as "good" as a movie. You see stuff like this, and then you realize those people are fucking nuts.

YES YES YES EXACTLY. (Man, you always go and say everything I'm thinking in a better and less rambling way than I would have said it.)

[futuresoon.livejournal.com]

I am highly amused that anyone could say that I am less rambling. Anyone. Some people are born to ride; I am born to ramble. I am a ramblin' woman. Which is why it was so much fun writing that KKBB fic, because the main character/narrator rambles/forgets things/goes off on tangents/has to go back and point things out he didn't specify before, and writing him was like a dream.

[lovestories.livejournal.com]

That reminds me I'm going to have to watch "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" someday. Everyone keeps telling me how good it is.

[futuresoon.livejournal.com]

YES YOU MUST. It is fun and silly and actually kind of pretty and at no point does it take itself seriously and also Robert Downey Jr and Val Kilmer make out. (Even if only a little bit.) And it has a female love interest who is not boring or pathetic, and the ending is love, and and and I just love it so much. *squishes*

[squaringkarma.livejournal.com]

I agree with this. I just watched it for the first time a couple weeks ago and <33333333

[cosmicavatar.livejournal.com]

I was in tears in the first bloody five seconds of that episode. It's a masterpiece.

[lovestories.livejournal.com]

It makes me cry every single time I watch it. Oh, "The Body". Masterpiece is exactly the word. ♥

[eryslash.livejournal.com]

Yeah, what - what they all said. It's one of the most beautifully shot, best written hours of television of all times. It's impossible to watch it and not cry. It's just perfect. Just - perfect. And the saddest thing you'll ever watch. Argh. Argh. *doesn't make sense anymore*

[lovestories.livejournal.com]

It is. Just so beautiful and fantastic and well, profound in an extremely traumatic kind of way. I don't think I've ever seen a better episode about the death of a loved one and what happens after.

[defybrevity.livejournal.com]

This episode is so beautiful and amazing, I'll watch it ten times despite how much it makes my heart ache. It's the closest thing to a film I've ever seen on a tv series, and directed better than many, many films out there. Just the emotions, and the directing, and the acting -- it's all so amazing.

[lovestories.livejournal.com]

Definitely. "The Body" is the best and most artistic study of grief that I've ever seen.

[squaringkarma.livejournal.com]

The pilot for The Black Donnellys is also quite film-like, I think.

[lovestories.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I've been meaning to check out The Black Donnellys! I shall have to look into it and get my hands on the Pilot.

[squaringkarma.livejournal.com]

Be sure it's the pilot screener and not the one that aired and the one on the DVDs. 'Cause they changed the music for the final sequence and IMO, the change sucked.