All this talk is making me want to watch Becoming again. Right now.
River: I didn't think you'd come for me. Simon: Well, you're a dummy.
'Serenity'
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.
Stephanie - Jan 18, 2012 12:59:36 pm PST #8398 of 10459
Trust my rage
victor infante - Jan 18, 2012 2:46:27 pm PST #8399 of 10459
To understand what happened at the diner, we shall use Mr. Papaya! This is upsetting because he's the friendliest of fruits.
I don't think he is going to like Joyce's reaction.
Someone should contact his friends before he gets to "The Body," just to be sure he's OK. I think he might really hurt himself after that one.
On the flip side, I'm curious to see how he comes down on Willow and Tara. He'll probably be ecstatic. And then ... yeah. He's got a lot of pain coming, doesn't he?
§ ita § - Jan 18, 2012 3:38:53 pm PST #8400 of 10459
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I think he might really hurt himself after that one.
Didn't he make it through The Hunger Games without self-harm?
Rayne - Jan 18, 2012 3:51:42 pm PST #8401 of 10459
"Oh no! Has falling sky liquid once again caused you the sadness?" -Starfire
To me, The Body is much more brutal than The Hunger Games. I sobbed like a baby during THG, but I was physically ill during The Body. (Then again, my mom had cancer when it aired and it wasn't going well at all.)
I know so many people who haven't been able to watch The Body again. It's just too gutting.
§ ita § - Jan 18, 2012 3:53:16 pm PST #8402 of 10459
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I find I can't summarise either of them without tearing up, but even though my mother is undergoing chemo (or, well not) at the moment, I still think they're of a quantum level of fuck-you-over.
le nubian - Jan 18, 2012 3:54:30 pm PST #8403 of 10459
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
I think I found THG far more disturbing than "The Body." But it could be a recency effect.
Sophia Brooks - Jan 18, 2012 3:59:44 pm PST #8404 of 10459
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I too, sobbed like a baby during Hunger Games, but The Body felt like a person I loved had actually died. There was no distance for me at all.
My uncle, who hardly watches series TV came across The Body shortly after my grandma died and sat and watched the whole thing, so I don't even think the reaction is based on knowing the people in the Buffyverse and being invested.
Atropa - Jan 18, 2012 4:03:45 pm PST #8405 of 10459
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I know so many people who haven't been able to watch The Body again. It's just too gutting.
raises hand
I'm one of 'em.
Mind you, I've been told that I shouldn't read Hunger Games for at least another year, so I can't make a comparison.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 18, 2012 4:06:13 pm PST #8406 of 10459
"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
raises hnd too
I saw it once, and I think that will do for me for the forseeable future.
Laga - Jan 18, 2012 5:46:37 pm PST #8407 of 10459
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I sobbed at "The Body" and have avoided watching it since.
I also sobbed reading "The Book Thief" and Mark got through that. I think he'll be OK.