“To me, it’s almost the most important shot in the show, because it really shows, you know, the mystery of their relationship. (…) I wanted the audience to fill in the blanks. (…) I love that elliptical nature of their last night together. I think there should be work for the viewer to do in that sense, emotionally, because I think that makes it more textured, and that shot of the two of them looking at each other I just find beautiful.” ~Joss Whedon
nihilus3247:
I can’t overstate the brilliance of this show. Everything about it flows together in such beautiful and philosophically mesmerizing ways, that I’m constantly left astounded. Six Feet Under; utter perfection.
“I had a wonderful experience with Buffy, and I was just lucky to be the one to get to play Tara and to kind of knock those walls down… to be the first long-term lesbian relationship on network television. It was an honor”. - Amber Benson [2006]
buffyboy:
“I think one of my favourite scenes was the one at the end of [Buffy’s] birthday, that two-part story. When [Joyce and Buffy] are sitting on the couch. I thought Joss did something so wonderful in that scene with Joyce being her mother and knowing that something is going on that is very hard for her. Just being there and not asking what it is”.
- Kristine Sutherland [1998]
“We shot the last scene with Buffy and her mom, and I was watching the two shots of Kristine and Sarah, and I thought, Yesterday, I had the rocket launcher, and this is better. They were so good in that, and it looked so beautiful, and it felt so right, and that to me was just… we had everything”.
- Joss Whedon [1998]
Writers don’t write from experience, though many are resistant to admit that they don’t. I want to be clear about this. If you wrote from experience, you’d get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy.
Brenda:
Well, we’re all wounded. We carry our wounds around with us through life, and eventually they kill us. Things happen that leave a mark in space, in time. In us.
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Alan Ball & Christian Williams, “Six Feet Under” (via xu-an)
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There is a little truth behind every just kidding. A little curiosity behind every just wondering. A little knowledge behind every I don’t know. A little emotion behind every I don’t care. And a little kick of lie behind the distant eyes of someone saying I don’t love you.
I haven’t really found any lessons in death, other than “I wish it wouldn’t.
Buffy’s always had to deal with a certain amount of isolation because of her responsibility that she can’t really tell anyone except for her close friends about. But we really wanted to strip away all of her support systems; her friends, her school, her lover, her family, and say what do you have left in a situation like that? What is there that you have when you have everything taken away from you?