Beneath You
- Episode aired Oct 1, 2002
- TV-PG
- 41m
A giant worm-like creature begins stalking a young woman. As the gang begin to investigate, they realize its appearance in Sunnydale may be linked to Anya.A giant worm-like creature begins stalking a young woman. As the gang begin to investigate, they realize its appearance in Sunnydale may be linked to Anya.A giant worm-like creature begins stalking a young woman. As the gang begin to investigate, they realize its appearance in Sunnydale may be linked to Anya.
- Anya
- (as Emma Caulfield)
- Rupert Giles
- (as Anthony Stewart Head)
- Principal Robin Wood
- (as DB Woodside)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaWhen questioned about his fondest memory of filming, James Marsters explained that final scene had slight different direction and dialog, but Joss Whedon saw the footage and told him the scene was horrible: "It's not your fault. It was the direction. But it's just so on the nose, and it's just cringe-worthy." Whedon then decided to rewrite and direct it, then they filmed "12 to 20 hours to begin with, which is so much longer than other shows," Marsters said. "Then, after we finished those eight days, and the main unit started a new episode, we were doing pickups and extra shots on B and splinter units throughout the next week, which was not even entirely legal. But to go back and wholesale throw away an entire day's work and begin from scratch in the midst of all that other filming was just a huge, huge thing to do. He was willing to do that." Marsters described the new direction: "He directed me to be less emotional. To be more distant. To be hiding both in the shadows and in my feelings from Buffy rather than try and proclaim them to her. I think that's the way shame works. I think there's a lot of shame in this scene. And I think, in general, we say that writing can be too much on the nose, which is kind of a way of saying it's too direct, it's too literal, it's too obvious - and that can be a very subtle difference. The writing wasn't bad originally, it was just slightly too much on the nose, and it needed to be just a little more opaque and just get that right tone."
- Goofs(24:25) When Xander and Nancy survey the damage to the flooring in the corridor, the hole that the demon rose from is now only about 30cm deep and lined with black polythene.
- Quotes
[last lines]
Buffy Summers: You got your soul back. How?
Spike: It's what you wanted, right? It's-It's what *you* wanted, right? And-And now everybody's in here, talking. Everything I did, everyone I... And him... and it, the other... The thing, beneath... beneath you. It's here, too. Everybody... They all just tell me go, go... to hell.
Buffy Summers: Why? Why would you do that?
Spike: Buffy, shame on you. Why does a man do what he mustn't? For her. To be hers. To be the kind of man who would nev... To be a kind of man... And she shall look on him, with forgiveness... And everybody will forgive and love. And he will be loved... So everything's okay, right...? C-Can we rest now? Buffy...? Can we rest?
- ConnectionsReferences Tremors (1990)
- SoundtracksVon der Tiefe
by Stillste Stund
Anya and Xander are dull to watch. Dawn shouldn't still be in the show. She was the key. She's not the key. She doesn't have a soul, does she? Buffy is a good show that divides people. Most of its detractors don't watch it, which makes sense. A few watch it and write bad reviews. Many gush over it and think this episode was cinematic genius. It was not.
It's a good show, with some questionable writing and acting at times. The questions carry more weight now, after all that's come out about what Whedon is really like. It seems that it's the norm, not the exception, that when a guy goes on and on about how feminist he is, he is anything but. Sad.
- exuberantloquacity
- Nov 5, 2021