I've been rewatching Buffy, and I just got up to the "mom?...mom?...Mommy?".
I'm not sure I'm ready for what comes next.
Book: Where's the doctor? Not back yet?
Zoe: (beat) We don't make him hurry for the little stuff. He'll be along.
Book: He could hurry... a little.
'Safe'
Buffy and Angel 1: BUFFYNANGLE4EVA!!!!!1!
Is it better the second time around? Or the third? Or tenth? This is the place to come when you have a burning desire to talk about an old episode that was just re-run.
Lee - Jun 18, 2006 6:13:21 pm PDT #3027 of 10464
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
sj - Jun 18, 2006 6:53:36 pm PDT #3028 of 10464
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
That line always kills me.
Lee - Jun 18, 2006 7:07:27 pm PDT #3029 of 10464
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Me too.
Morgana - Jun 18, 2006 7:11:33 pm PDT #3030 of 10464
"I make mistakes, but I am on the side of Good," the Golux said, "by accident and happenchance.” – The 13 Clocks, James Thurber
I've also been rewatching Buffy, and I confess that I skipped "The Body." My father died a little over 10 years ago, and it still reawakens too many raw emotions.
I've progressed to the season 6, "I'm so annoyed, I just want to throw things at the screen" stage.
Lee - Jun 18, 2006 7:23:21 pm PDT #3031 of 10464
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
I had to fast forward through the Buffy performing CPR scene, but I will probably watch the rest.
Maybe.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 19, 2006 6:07:13 am PDT #3032 of 10464
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I still don't feel strong enough to rewatch, and this is me being within an hour's drive of visiting both my still-living parents. I can't even imagine how hard the episode hits someone who's lost one or both.
Lee - Jun 19, 2006 7:50:34 am PDT #3033 of 10464
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
I made it through the whole thing with only a teensy bit of fast forwarding, but not without some tears. It was a good ending to my weekend o' wallow.
SailAweigh - Jun 19, 2006 8:20:59 am PDT #3034 of 10464
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
I love that episode, but it is so damn hard to watch. It's a great one for getting the tears out when you feel the need but can't otherwise perform (hee.)
Zenkitty - Jun 19, 2006 8:26:08 am PDT #3035 of 10464
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
The scene that really got to me was when Buffy tells Dawn what's happened, and you see Dawn collapse out side the classroom window. It makes it more heartbreaking, somehow, that you don't hear anything Buffy says.
DavidS - Jun 19, 2006 8:42:57 am PDT #3036 of 10464
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
It makes it more heartbreaking, somehow, that you don't hear anything Buffy says.
Callback to the scene where Willow and Buffy are crying after Jenny's death and you only get it from Angelus' POV, outside the window.
"The Body" was very true to my experience of my mother's death, but it's not unbearable to me. What it mostly calls up are those weird moments where death doesn't really have a social protocol in our culture, so you're fumbling around and bumping into emotional landmines and stepping on toes and acting inappropriate.
One thing I've never seen portrayed in film or TV about death is the clarity that it provides. How your daily tasks and interactions tend to bob in your face like so many balloons, and death suddenly gives each one the proper weight. And now you can see the few balloons that matter - your family, your friends, your creative work - and the bullshit things sink and all their stresses recede. For a time.