arby, that's very possible. And that can lead to a lengthy exploration of the consequences.
Because if Tara doesn't die, we don't see Dark!Willow. Warren isn't flayed (query whether he'd be in prison, escaped, or dead in some other way). Andrew and Jonathan stay in prison. Probably no Giles appearance at the end of S6. Andrew (probably) doesn't stab Jonathan under the school -- no Ubervamp? And Andrew probably not captured by the Scoobs -- who keeps the house running after the Potentials show up?
And who knows what Tara might have done against the First?
I still can't wrap my head around Buffy choosing to undo Tara's death rather than Joyce's. Glad that the issue never made it to screen.
Agreeing with Matt on the Joyce thing, but...
I think a much more likely wish Tara-related would be "I wish Tara was alive with no memory of where she's been since her death."
Doesn't make Tara have to sleep with a vampire to feel alive, (remember how happy Joan the Vampire Slayer was? The pain requires the memory) and also doesn't A.U.ify and open up that whole can of wyrms.
In a theoretical sense, the whole "Still removed her from heaven, where she totally deserved to be" thing still applies, but since Buffy had decided that she was actually glad she was alive again, despite the whole shitty-ass pain of season 6, she'd probably be willing to do it as long as Tara didn't have to suffer the same way she did.
I think a much more likely wish Tara-related would be "I wish Tara was alive with no memory of where she's been since her death."
So yet
another
brain wipe for poor Tara?
I'm not saying it's a very ethical idea, Cindy. Or even a good one. It just makes more sense as a wish.
Though, you know, brain wipe probably not so much. Since I'm assuming her brain got all buried and stuff. Heh.
If Joyce hadn't died, she'd have been around when Buffy died. To save her imaginary sister. I could see not wanting to put Joyce through that. Although I also have trouble believing anyone put that much thought into it.
Oh, oh! Or, if Joyce hadn't died, Riley wouldn't have gotten all put out over Buffy's refusal to share her feelings or whatever his problem was, and then they might not have broken up. So Buffy might have figured the trade-off was worth it.
If they produce a version for the U.S., it had damned well better have the 99 episode previously frames at the beginning of the
The Gift.
it had damned well better have the 99 episode previously frames at the beginning of the The Gift.
Isn't that an easter egg on the S7 release?
