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“I will talk about that a bit, but recently Anthony Stewart Head died, and so now I have to talk about grief.”
“But let’s go back to Season 3.”
““The Body,” more than any other art I’ve encountered, gets at the surreality of sudden death.”
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“So much has already been said about “The Body,” which is by any measure an extraordinary episode of television.”
“I know, I know, he’s evil.”
“People come to literature for many different things.”
“Interestingly, Cordelia is exempt from this phenomenon, at least in Buffy proper.”
“But of course, Giles is just as alive as ever.”
“Because in the Buffyverse, as sometimes in life, grief makes you a different person.”
“But being a teenager is about grief because being a teenager is about change.”
“Everything that Angel becomes after that is a response—he is forever trying to atone.”
“It’s a subtle echo of what Buffy did at the beginning of the season—Faith is running emotionally from the grief and guilt, but she can’t actually beat it without changing herself entirely.”
“The death of a parent is often the catalyst for the end of childhood, in fiction and in life.”
“As the characters experience grief, and are changed by it, so too are the fans.”
“There’s also the fact that Buffy and especially Angel still feel, after all this, like secrets.”
“She feels she shouldn’t want what she wants.”
“She can’t recognize herself.”
“On the whole, though, there is an element of the interior in these shows that is hard to put a finger on.”
“It also illustrates how quickly, despite the surreality, you must playact that this death is real to you.”