Buffyverse Dialogue Database - EPISODE: 'The Body'


Season: Episode 16 of Season 5
Original Air Date: 02/27/2001
Written by: Joss Whedon
Directed by: Joss Whedon

Notes:

Dealing with Joyce's death.
Plot Highlights:

Remembering Christmas dinner. 911. Telling Dawn. Willow tries to find a shirt to wear, Anya breaks down, Xander puts his hand throught the wall. Dr Kriegel explains. Tara understands. Buffy saves Dawn from the vampire in the morgue.
Quick Review:

It's taken me nearly a year to work up the nerve to watch this episode a second time, which should tell you something. It's a great episode, a vital episode, but if you're already depressed it could push you over the edge, and if you're *not* depressed you will be by the end, so definitely a use-with-caution kind of deal. This isn't your fun I-have-to-send-my-vampire-boyfriend-to-hell-with-a-magic-sword angsty trauma, it's the real deal and it's very hard to watch. But if you haven't seen it yet, you really should...some stellar performances and great writing to appreciate, and of course, it goes without saying that the events here-in reverberate heavily throughout the rest of the season.
Memorable Moments:

Buffy's reactions to finding her mother.
Dawn's reactions to being told.
The gang dealing at Willow's (Willow's clothes changing, Anya's breakdown, Xander's wall punching)
Tara telling Buffy about her own mother's death.
Dawn's need to see her mother's body.

Transcript Source:

Download from http://www.studiesinwords.de/94thebody.html
transcribed by Joan the English Chick
(If the link above doesn't work, try looking here, under multimedia.)

There are 28 clips for this episode

AKAs

Xander referred to Dawn as naughty booze hound

Joyce referred to Buffy as demon child

characters

Story Arcs

NOTES ON EPISODE ART: CREATED 01/2002 ~It seemed pretty obvious to me that this collage needed to be simple and subdued. So I used just 3 images, and made them all fairly transparent, and low contrast, and low-saturation, with a grid-like pattern overlay mixed in with some noisy-staticy dissolving.

Notes: Dealing with Joyce's death. Plot Highlights: Remembering Christmas dinner. 911. Telling Dawn. Willow tries to find a shirt to wear, Anya breaks down, Xander puts his hand throught the wall. Dr Kriegel explains. Tara understands. Buffy saves Dawn from the vampire in the morgue. Quick Review: It's taken me nearly a year to work up the nerve to watch this episode a second time, which should tell you something. It's a great episode, a vital episode, but if you're already depressed it could push you over the edge, and if you're not depressed you will be by the end, so definitely a use-with-caution kind of deal. This isn't your fun I-have-to-send-my-vampire-boyfriend-to-hell-with-a-magic-sword angsty trauma, it's the real deal and it's very hard to watch. But if you haven't seen it yet, you really should...some stellar performances and great writing to appreciate, and of course, it goes without saying that the events here-in reverberate heavily throughout the rest of the season. Memorable Moments: Buffy's reactions to finding her mother. Dawn's reactions to being told. The gang dealing at Willow's (Willow's clothes changing, Anya's breakdown, Xander's wall punching) Tara telling Buffy about her own mother's death. Dawn's need to see her mother's body.
Transcript Source: Download from http://www.studiesinwords.de/94thebody.html transcribed by Joan the English Chick (If the link above doesn't work, try looking here, under multimedia.)
There are 28 clips for this episode

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