The Sound of Silence

This past episode of Buffy was pretty cool I'll admit. What a brilliant way to show the clutter that words can cause in a relationship. I was particularly amused how at the very end of the episode when Buffy and Riley have their voices back and need to speak, neither can come up with anything.

As I mentioned, it was a very clever way of displaying communication. In the beginning, we're going to show you a couple of different relationships and how they are unable to live up to their potential, mainly because the individuals involved are not able to express their needs/wants/desires. Once verbal communication is stripped, the characters are forced to actually listen to one another.

I'm a big baby when it comes to scary things, but this episode was more creepy than anything. Between the constant silence and the gentlemen it just felt weird. I thought it was interesting that they showed them(though they didn't really show anything) cutting out the hearts. Years ago, that may have been a bit much, but by today's standards it was nothing. Fantastic movies like Saw and Hostel(by the way I wish there was icon that you could click like for bold or italics that would indicate sarcasm) have desensitized our country. The cutting to us is not a big deal at all.