'Just Rewards (2)'
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If Tara had come back as a zombie, and eaten Kennedy's brains, I would have cheered.
Tara returned to life fully human and normal and happy and 4EVAH!!!! with Willow?
They wouldn't have needed Spike's Big Gay Amulet at all -- Sunnydale would have spontaneously collapsed from the complete undermining of what Tara's death meant in the first place.
It is true. It would have been gross and wrong.
I just couldn't bring myself to give a shit about Willow post-STSP this season except to scream at her to knock Kennedy upside the head for me. And anything that would've helped with that seems like the best idea ever now. But you're right - having Tara walk out of a glowing cloud of love showering Willow with puppies and lollipops - not of the good.
Sunnydale would have spontaneously collapsed from the complete undermining of what Tara's death meant in the first place.
Yes, this. It would have been a cheat, and evil and Bad. It would mean that, for all the talk about "anyone can die on this show," the only major deaths where the person stayed dead were Ms. Calendar and Joyce -- and neither of those characters were as important to the show as Tara at the time of their deaths.
I think Joss was just blowing smoke.
(Unless the idea was that Willow would think Tara had been reincarnated, and would be all happy and bliss bliss bliss, and then at minute 42 it would turn out "Tara" was the First. THAT would be kinda awesome.)
It's not so much the return of Tara that would have made me happy, but the lack of Kennedy. Or the full-on humiliating slap down of Kennedy that would have accompanied the return of a triumphant Tara. (OK - unlikely, but a girl can dream.)
Oh, I know. Kennedy sucked. And not in the good way.
But they really established Tara's death as permanent. Bringing her back would have been one of those "nice to wish for, but having that wish granted would have sucked beyond the telling of it" things, I guess.
But they really established Tara's death as permanent. Bringing her back would have been one of those "nice to wish for, but having that wish granted would have sucked beyond the telling of it" things, I guess.
Maybe he didn't mean that they would bring her back alive, maybe as a spirit guide or something.
Actually, what makes me angry is why AB turned it down.
Everything I've read said she loved the character and the show, so the question becomes why didn't she come back? Other than some webshow for BBC I can't what else she did this last year.
The Frickin' Kittens. They were so happy she was leaving the 'evil' show and getting far away from the 'Bad' Joss. Several members followed her around her LA appearances. She may have decided going back to the show wasn't worth the crap.
And that would make me angry. That fans got so obsessed that they changed the show because of anger and fear to the detriment of others.
I have nothing but bad, bad words to say about the Kittens.
It really had nothing to do with Kittens, at all.
(I still think it's all bullshit, and there was never a Tara in S7 for AB to turn down.)
It really had nothing to do with Kittens, at all.
I don't know if this was to me or CaBil, but my bad words for the Kittens have nothing to do with CaBil's post. I just don't like them.
(I still think it's all bullshit, and there was never a Tara in S7 for AB to turn down.)
I agree with Jess.