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chris_walsh

"The Body"

Feb 14, 2009 11:01

If you know the show Buffy the Vampire Slayer, you know about its episode “The Body.” If you don’t know the show, just trust that it’s…tough. Might be the toughest episode the show ever did. It’s about a death ( Read more... )

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chris_walsh February 14 2009, 19:48:45 UTC

Didn't. I was at the Bagdad eating and visiting, waiting for Battlestar Galactica to start. I don't have TV recording ability, either.

The DJs hosting the screening decided not to show Dollhouse on the big screen, partly because of the possibility that Dollhouse would run long or Galactica would start early, and we'd miss some of it.

slipjig February 15 2009, 23:05:44 UTC

The moment I decided Whedon truly was a genius was a single shot in "The Body." While the paramedic is giving Buffy instructions just after her mother died, when the camera is on Buffy, we see her in full-face, like always. But when the camera is on the paramedic, it's focused somewhere around his second shirt button. It's her POV, and it speaks volumes: she may be looking at him, she may be nodding, but she's not hearing a word. That and the first few minutes after the paramedics leave. Just briliiant.