The return of Tara?
POSTED BY: Hjermsted
UPDATED: Friday, June 14, 2002 01:25
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I believe that Amber is now alongside the higher beings... in the writers' block. 
She seems to be very interested in screenwriting, and it was rumoured a year or so ago that she would become a writer for the show (though this was disspelled as she was too busy with the acting back then), so "reincarnating" the actress in this way would make sense. Plus, if they ever need Tara for a dream sequence, she'd be easily within reach...
Of course I'd love to see Tara come back as a frequent character once again... but I doubt it's going to happen somehow 
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Well, I have given it some fleeting thought...maybe Yara can't be killed because she's not really fully human. Maybe that's her big secret. Maybe Tara's grandmother was a powerful high priestess who promised the soul of her children to the ways of the coven. Tara's mother (who grew up in the ways of the coven and was also very powerful) temporarily escaped from the coven to marry for a normal life, but who did she conceive Tara with?. Tara was hidden by her mother from the coven who died to save her from their evil cloven paws. Her mother placed her as infant with the crazy family next door who tried to keep Tara under their control by telling her she would turn into an evil demon just like mother if she did not return home by her 20th(?) birthday. Their efforts were thwarted by the Scoobies, in particular Spike who proved Tara was not a demon by punching her, but maybe she's only half human...maybe that's her secret? Possibly she has nine lives like that of a cat and she hass the potential to be more powerful with each reincarniation? But because she's not even really sure of her history she doesn't know how really powerful she is or could be. She is attracted to majick, but shys away from dark majick because she senses she has some connection to dark majick it has something to do with her family history. Can Joss Whedon do better than that?
"I don't think we're in Kansa anymore Toto" Dorothy from the Wizard of OZ.
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No "Tara isn't human" theories please. That's already been dealt with in the "family" episode.
I read somewhere (I think it was an interview with AH) that they originally meant for the Tara-is-part-demon thing to be real, not just a family myth. If you've seen the shooting script for Hush, you'll notice that the descriptions of Tara and her environment are slightly less sympathetic than what she actually became.
But then they sort of tripped over their whole "gay subtext" thing. Calling it a subtext is just a pretentious way of describing an ongoing joke -- that being a supernatural or superpowered person is rather like being gay. Except that when they started filming the Willow/Tara scenes they couldn't leave it as "subtext" -- there was too strong a bond between the two characters.
But if Tara is gay, it's just too much to give her a "gay subtext". So they made the demon thing they'd previously hinted at a family myth.
Here's my current theory about Tara's return. She's dead, period. But she's left behind a lover with a lot of unresolved issues. Grief, sexual identity, loss of her magical vocation. And worst of all, she's now a murderer. (Yes, she had provocation. True, she'll never face prosecution. To someone like Willow, that's all beside the point.) Presumably Tara has to help Willow deal with all of this before she can Move On.
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I was watching The Gift last night, and something just screamed out at me.
"I was so lost"
"I found you... I will always find you, no matter what."
(something along those lines)
Normally, I wouldn't read things like this into the series, and I usually don't... but since the episode was written by Joss, and Joss is the only one who really ever does anything "prophetic," i feel it's a possibility that Willow will "find" Tara in the afterlife or something... or maybe Tara will find Willow and help her or something crazy like that.
There's also the parts in Restless where she acts as a guide to the rest of the gang... and a part where she guides Willow when she's lost in the curtains.
I usually hate it when people say stuff like this... but since most of the stuff in Restless has come true, it wouldn't surprise me if that is part of the gang's prophcey dreams. Not saying that it will happen... just saying it's a possibiblity. I still fee, however, that the most logical way we'll ever see Amber Benson as Tara is if she's in flashback form.
(reading back over this, I sound *just* like the people I hate... reading too much into the little stuff.)
--Dylan Palmer, aka NoVaGrAsS--
... I guess it's a Joss thing...
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NG, that's actually pretty good speculation. It would make perfect sense if Tara started visiting folks in their dreams. As long as she doesn't start dating the Cheese Man!
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No, I think you are right. I remember that line standing out and was going to comment on it. So, I don't think Tara will be lost to Willow or the gang. Although, I can't see her coming back in some ghost form or flashbacks...too cliche for someone with an imagination like Joss's. None of the Scoobies, including Buffy has every found any real happiness...I think I read somewhere he doesn't beleive in happy endings. Afterall, look at what's happened to the gang so far in love...Buffy lost Angel her true love and then her mother, Willow lost Oz her first true love and then Tara, Giles lost Jenny Calendar when Angel killed her, Xander lost Cordelia when she left for LA and then he wound up not marrying Anya only to make her turn into a demon again. With this kind of angst these guys should be on some pretty heavy anti-depressants. Maybe in season 7, there will be just a little ray of sunshine starting with Tara's return to Willow.
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Ummh...supernatural or superpower is like being gay? Now that's something to munch on.....
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Quote:Come on, you must have noticed all the jokes. Especially with Joyce. "Have you tried not being a slayer?" The basic idea is that being involved with the supernatural is very much like being gay: there's a part of your life that's very hard to explain to people who are outside it.
Originally posted by Nightfly:
Ummh...supernatural or superpower is like being gay? Now that's something to munch on.....
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