impalementation: “Something’s cooking, I’m at the griddle / I bought Nero his very
impalementation: “Something’s cooking, I’m at the griddle / I bought Nero his very first fiddle” -Sweet, 6.07 Once More, With Feeling “Wow. They’re all so…identical.” “Yeah. They all start to look the same to me too.” “Oh, no, not the employees, the, the chicken slices.” -Buffy & Manny the Manager, 6.12 Doublemeat Palace “Will you stop wolfing down those chips? One more bag and you’ll pop right out of your cummerbund. You’re not even hungry, you’re just nervous.” -Anya, 6.15 As You Were “No, we’re gonna sit down and have a real dinner. Someday.” -Buffy, 6.14 Older And Far Away “So! Who’s hungry? We got, uh-” “Ice cubes.” “All you can eat.” Buffy & Dawn, 6.15 As You Were “Breakfast will make all things better.” -Tara, 6.01 Bargaining, Part 1 buffy season six imagery: food [ 2 / 2 ] [more quotes and images in part one. commentary below the cut.] Keep reading this is a super interesting observation! i didn’t notice it at all at first, but in retrospect, you’re definitely right that there’s an intended food motif here.just thinking off the top of my head, i think there’s a ton of lines you can draw between the constant presence of food and buffy’s own disconnect with life - food is constantly associated with living, continuing your existence. it sustains, it fulfills, it keeps you breathing and bleeding. on angel but also many times on buffy proper a big deal is made of the fact that food is majorly tasteless to vampires. they can still eat, but they don’t need it, and they don’t share in the flavor, the texture, the sense of understanding it communicates with other people. buffy’s disgust with the meals in doublemeat palace is absolutely because they’re completely gross, but i also think it has a lot to do with her own depersonalization and dehumanization. there are so many shots in doublemeat of buffy just staring at the chicken, the ground meat, the grease and the oil, and for the most part she doesn’t show revulsion but a sort of vague detachment that manifests as a perverse fascination with this garbage that’s supposed to bring life and continued existence but only furthers her own lack of belonging in a mundane, painful world where she has to eat and work and exist all the time. the food becomes actively unappealing to her because what it represents no longer appeals to her anymore - continuing to exist, and the effort that requires. -- source link
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