The Soft Chewy Center: Layers of Life in "Underneath"

[lynnenne]

This is an essay on the AtS Season 5 episode, "Underneath," written by Sarah Fain & Elizabeth Craft. For crazydiamondsue's Buffyverse Mini-Marathon Discussion.
Damn, I love this episode. It’s bleak and dark and desperate-perhaps the most despairing episode in all of the Jossverse. Yet I love it to pieces, because it encapsulates nearly all of the themes that Joss

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[spikendru]

Wonderful job! Well worth waiting for (and I'd been checking my flist ever since you said you were going to write this!)

Surburban league? It's gotta be either softball or bowling. *g*

[lynnenne]

Thanks! And you're right... hockey leagues are only in Canada. *g*

[byrne]

*applause*

Thank you!!!

I vote for bowling.

[lynnenne]

Glad you liked it! I can't imagine Lindsey bowling, myself. It'd be pretty damn funny. :)

[sweptawaybayou]

Awesome.

*applauds*

[lynnenne]

Thank you! :)

[lynnenne]

Thank you for getting us thinking about the shows again, and for making me remember why I love them. Every single episode is about us, really. We should never forget that.

What's wrong, sweetness? Anything I can do to help? *gives you hugs and puppies*

[lynnenne]

Anything that makes work better for you is a good thing. *hugs you muchly*

[kita0610]

Your brain is a big shiny squishy place filled with glee and caramels. May I archive this on StA, since your brain won't fit into the essay section?

[lynnenne]

Yes, you may! If I could squish my brain into any archive, it would be yours. ;)

How's Bumblefuck Nowhere?

[kita0610]

Oh it's ok now, I'm in bed with my feet up and my comp on and hey...can you hop on AIM by any chance??