Tara resurrection - Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997) Discussion

[–] Joxerlives 8 years ago

I loved Tara but no, it would have cheapened the character's death, I was happy to see Willow move on to Kennedy.

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[–] catsy29 8 years ago

Omg no.

First of all, I would have loved to see Tara alive again. I think Willow and her were soulmates and they are my favorite tv couple ever, so, obviously I would love that to happen.

I am still grieving for Tara, after all these years and I hope to see her & Willow again at least on comics.

Second, Keneddy? You got to be kidding me. She is a spoiled brat, too young for

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[–] catsy29 8 years ago

I was saying. Keneddy was/is a spoiled brat, too young for Willow and with a lot of attitude.

I HATE her. The only reason she had a chance with Willow was because they were living at the same place and Willow was too vulnerable. It was a crappy time for her.

She was the opposite of Tara and even Oz.

Worst couple ever.

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[–] PreachCaleb 8 years ago

too young for Willow

She was 18 or 19, and Willow was 22. How is that too young?

You are sin.

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[–] anythingbutthatoldone 8 years ago

Kennedy was way overdone. Her initial advances towards Willow were creepy at best. In fact, if Kennedy were a male character and had acted that way towards Willow's female character, it would be sexual harrassment at the least. But because they were lesbian, it was somehow "OK"? Not in my book.

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[–] DebLovesBeccy 8 years ago

too young for Willow and with a lot of attitude.

Too young? Ummm...You are joking? Considering the actress who played Kennedy is 40 and Alyson Hannigan is 42 and Kennedy was 19 in Season 7 of Buffy I am not sure how you can say she was too young for Willow when she was only in her early or mid 20s at the time. It is not like there was a 20 or 30 year age difference between the characters like there has been in a number of Romantic Comedy movies with the two leading characters which no one ever complains about and I am personally tired of all the discrimination female characters face in movies and TV shows from fans when they date younger male and female characters who are only a FEW years younger than them when male characters are paired with female characters who are young enough to be their daughters. It is sexism at its best and a good example of why Ageism is so rampant in Hollywood. I have dated younger guys in the past and I wouldn't mind dating women who were a decade younger than me if I was single.

While I liked Willow with Tara more I think you are forgetting opposites attract and that was clearly the case with Willow and Kennedy.

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[–] faulknerster 8 years ago

I agree with a previous poster that killing off Tara to trigger Dark Willow was a cop-out. I actually got over Tara and Willow as a couple some time in season five. I was more interested in seeing Tara developed sans Willow, which never happened. But no to the res.

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[–] DebLovesBeccy 8 years ago

As much as I would have loved to have seen Tara return for the final episode I think they made the right decision not bringing the character back in the long run 'cause they would have just undid everything that happened in the final episodes of Season 6 with Willow becoming evil for a short time and made it pointless.

Tara's death was the saddest moment in the entire show to me but people lose people who are close to them all the time and they can't bring them back either and death is a part of life.

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[–] poem 8 years ago

AFAIK they only dropped these plans because Amber Benson was unavailable.

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[–] anythingbutthatoldone 8 years ago

It is too bad really. Had Amber Benson played Tara in "Conversations with Dead People". Instead if the nonsensical rehash of an unimportant character. It would have been haunting and Emmy worthy. It would have freaked me the F out. Josh kind of fk'd himself on this one. Or even worse, he took the easy road.

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[–] stargazer_1682 8 years ago

It is too bad really. Had Amber Benson played Tara in "Conversations with Dead People". Instead if the nonsensical rehash of an unimportant character. It would have been haunting and Emmy worthy. It would have freaked me the F out. Josh kind of fk'd himself on this one. Or even worse, he took the easy road.

If this is all referring to "Conversations with Dead People," that wasn't Joss (re, not Josh); Amber Benson made that decision. She felt her character and Tara's relationship with Willow was very important to fans who identified with them on some level, particularly those who were gay. Even though it wouldn't technically be Tara, but rather a malevolent spirit posing as Tara, she felt it would have sent the wrong message, and disturb too many of those fans to see what appeared to be Tara encouraging Willow to commit suicide.

I can't entirely disagree with her reasoning for not wanting to participate in that, but at the same time, it would have been haunting in a way that I would have been down with; much more than what they ended up doing. It may be heresy, since CwDP is fairly highly ranked among fans, but I don't think it's near as good as it could have been, especially if Amber Benson were involved; and also given the direction the season ended up going in, which seems to differ to some degree from what they had in mind when they made that episode.

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