There was also the way vengeance demons worked. If you felt you had been wronged and wished, the demon would grant your wish. Regardless of whether any objective person would believe you really had been wronged. So that, say, someone with a jealous nature might wish for vengeance on a "cheating" SO when any cheating had been only in the wisher's imagination.

I remember a little (but only a little) discussion of this. Anya (maybe in a conversation with Halfrek?) said something about, the third or fourth time she granted a wish from the same woman, thinking that maybe the woman should think of herself as the problem. Not that it stopped Anya from granting the wish.

A couple other possible reasons for gliding over Anya's death vs. Tara's death. Anya's death was one incident in a very crowded episode. Spike disappeared, at least one of the Potentials died, huge battle against the minions of the First, disappearance of Sunnydale -- you could almost have missed Anya's death if you looked away from the screen at the wrong moment. By contrast, Tara's death was the focus of that moment. The Trio had been defeated. Spike had gone away. When Warren showed up, Xander and Buffy were quietly resolving their differences. So, big difference in emotional impact.

Also, Tara's death triggered the Big Bad of the season. There was also a certain amount of "what happens next?" surrounding her death. While Anya died in the last episode. Nothing happened next, at least not officially.

In honor of the first day of classes here I offer a much loved quote --

"One day the campus is completely bare and empty. The next, there are children everywhere. Like locusts. Crawling around, mindlessly bent on feeding and mating. Destroying everything in sight in their relentless, pointless desire to exist."

I never thought I'd say this, but I miss Snyder.

Just in from Popbitch -

Joss Whedon's long awaited UK based Buffy spin-off,

Has anyone else heard anything about it?

Has anyone else heard anything about it?

Joss confirmed at Comicon that BBC was interested, but, IIRC, there wasn't a script.

I also read somewhere (at Whedonverse) that ASH said the only thing holding it up was getting permission from Fox, who holds the rights to the Characters.

This is what Joss said in an EW interview form Comic-con: [link]

It's BBC [right now], in England. It's still being worked out. The character is still part of the Buffy franchise that Fox owns. We want to make sure that everybody gets respected. And everything is contingent on the script. I have an outline, but I don't have a script yet.

Hmm. Intriguing. Oh I do hope they put a bit of money into it at least.

Oh I do hope they put a bit of money into it at least.

I hope they put a bit of Ethan Rayne in it. Or more than a bit.

I think the BBC could do a great job with very little money. I'm picturing something very gothic and dramatic with monsters rarely glimpsed.

Unlike here where they can spend half a million bucks on a set and have it end up looking half-assed, in England they can pay some penniless member of the nobility chump change and do location shoots in honest-to-God castles and country estates.