Is this funny?
If it's funny I'm done. Swear.
In his essay, “It's Not Homophobia, But That Doesn't Make It Right: Creative Freedom, Responsibility and the Death of Tara,” author Robert A. Black writes:
“No, the killing of Tara was not an act of homophobia, but that doesn't make it right. Through proper handling of the Willow/Tara storyline, (creator) Joss Whedon could have attained greatness as a pioneer and visionary in modern society, but instead he traded that in for the imagined self-importance of his own ego - and we have all been diminished because of it.”
Whenever someone uses “pioneer” as a noun, I think of that game, “Oregon Trail,” and now I’m imagining Joss Whedon driving a wagon train full of lesbian witches to homestead the Sapphic Ranch, where lesbians never die of the cholera, so we, the viewers, will never be diminished by the imagined self-importance of his ego.
My friend Tim Minear, a television writer, says that in a show like Buffy, there are no sacred cows, not even lesbian cows are sacred…and then tells me that I shouldn’t write that down.