Seeing Red

[chumsleyistheman]

Being the lucky kid who used to live in a cave away from all human contact (especially Buffy-related contact) and then had to stop watching early on in Season Six for reasons beyond my control, I didn't know that Tara was dead until I got to college and went to Buffy night for the Season Seven first ep. The next day, my RA and I downloaded "Seeing Red" and cried and cried and cried. Almost lost my faith in Joss on that one.

"Incineration is no excuse!"~A. Larson, The Hall Dialogues



Willow: ...it's been pointed out to me that that's, you know, insane...

Tara: I said "quirky."

[Pale dreamer]

i only watched it once, and that was because it was on the video. i have watched the rest of it alot more than once but i always turn it off for "seeing red" i couldnt stand watching it again

[autumn972]

I still want to throw up when I think about it. I still can't deal with it. I still watch BTVS religiously, but no one is good enough for Willow now and I just get sooo sad.

[Aradia785]

The first time I watched it I was lucky. An ex of mine who had heard when the cursed event was going to happen phoned me and told me when would be a good time to turn the tv off. Thankfully I did. I taped the rest of the season and waited a while before watching it. I watched the whole thing through once and never will again. It still makes me want to just cry so, when I watch "Seeing Red" I stop the tape at the kiss after "Yes ma'am". I do watch season seven though... and it reeks. I love Joss for giving us these characters in the first place, but I just want to hex him for all the crap he does. Ah well, he'll get his. Look what happened! He killed Tara, ratings went plop.



Ann

[wolfwynd]

I knew full well what was going to happen but I just needed to see if it was true or not. I've only watched it once though (that was the time it was aired) Since then I've only watched it up that point as I can't watch it again



Keep the love alive...... + =



Wolfwynd

The Greatest thing you'll ever learn is to love and to be loved in return

[ErikaShadowKitty]

If I watch it, usually I turn it off right before Warren w/ the gun. : but when I do watch it I...well, I shout.. and then... it's kinda..

[LilacWine22]

i watched it even though i knew what was to come

didn't stop me cursing at my tv screen though and cursing a certain someones name

[laura1959]

I watched it all once. Since then only the good parts. I still love Tara!

Edited by: xita  at: 5/11/03 10:41:32 am

[Lt Sticks]

I havent watched it, and i just cant bear to either. Hurts too much. Why did Joss have to go mad? *sniff* Its evil, I tell you, EVIL!



*cries and runs off*





~Sticks

A fire in my heart, reborn from the ashes...just call me Phoenix



I'm Under Your Spell, nothing I can do, you just took my soul with you...

[iluvbtvs13]

i watched it and cried when tara died! know i watch it only for the first 40 minutes and if for some reason i forget to turn it off i cry!!!

~Glenn

Edited by: Warduke at: 7/4/03 11:08 pm

[32flavors]

Believe it or not, I really didn't know what was going to happen. It was before I got on the internet and here - in Denmark - there's NO media coverage at all when it comes to BtVS. So, I just sat there happy and smiling, thinking "WOW things are really looking up, this is so cool" and then ... well, I was just ... no air in my lungs ... It really came totally out of the blue ... The horror!!



-Diana

[met]

Unfortunately, I read a spoiler about what was going to happen. The first time I watched the episode all the way through anyway, hoping that someone somewhere was lying about it. But no, my life was successfully ruined. I tried watching the episode again, but I couldn't bring myself to go past the first 10 minutes or so.



BTW: This is my first post Hello everyone.

[RosenbergLover]

*sniffle sniffle* I watched it.....I miss Tara !!!!!!!!!!!

[WiccanSpud]

I had no idea what was gonna happen. I only recently got hooked on BtVS, and I downloaded it from Kazaa. I was really excited because Amber Benson was on the starring credits plus that opening scene with them in bed is just hot...



then.. the end came and I just sat there with my jaw hanging open. I couldn't believe it and I just started crying and crying...



Now I just watch the first 40 minutes cuz my heart can't take anymore than that.



-spud

[Yellow Crayon]

You have to watch, just to see the bunches and bunches o' Willow /Tara kisses, then you shut it off after, "Hope so, thats the best part."

















Hear that baby... you're my always.

[TKOLove]

I'm absolutely with ya there. The show should have ended with Tara's line, "Hope so..that's the best part" and that incredibly happy grin. They're back together, X and B are in the back yard planting roses for Willow and Tara's upcoming wedding....and it's all good. Fade to black, because Willow and Tara lived happily ever after...together...wrapped in satin sheets.



Yes, I love my fantasy world.



I saw this episode once from start to finish. I'm still in therapy. Well not really, but I easily could be. It's a credit to Amber and Alyson that they got through shooting it, because jeez, just watching it was killing me. The beginning of the episode is wonderful, but what a novel concept it would have been to have let these lovely women enjoy more than 2 minutes of joy together before the earth opened up and swallowed us all.

[underurspell]

I've watched it because I like seeing AB's name in the title credits and I liked the first 40min of it. Then I quickly turn it off when Buffy gets shot.

[Always410]

I watched all of it. A friend of mine saw it before me, and she was like, yeah, Tara dies. I didnt belive her. The whole episode (until the end) I was laughing thinking 'I cant belive I thought Tara would actually die. She's in the credits even!' and then....it happened. And from then on it was

Edited by: Warduke at: 10/27/03 8:00 am

[TaraBaby77]

I stop it right at the, "Yes Ma'am." scene. As I would like to see it........Tara is on vacation. Yeap, vacation. She dropped her cell phone and went to pick it up, right when the bullet came through the window. She packed a bag and headed for the Caymen Islands for a little fun in the sun. So, anytime now, she'll be back.........any time now.......soon.....yeap.....soon........=)

[halfsmile]

I watched even knowing about...about what was going to happen.

I couldn't stop myself from it....but I totally recreated.

I wish I could forget.

[undertarasspell]

I was spoiled, due to reading the episode summary of Villains on my boxset. I watched untill the end of S6 but I've only watched Villians, Two to Go and Grave once and I stop the tape at the Xander and Buffy hug, just before Warren walks in in Seeing Red.

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I've never seen blood and dessert go together so well. - Amber Benson

[Footman311]

I only can bring myself to watch the first fourty minutes of it, I saw the eintire thing the first time and was saddened and angered by it.



So I save myself the emotional turmoil by just watching the W/T goodness and none of the horrible stuff.

Lifes a bowl of punch G'head and spike it-Nick Hexum

[WickedReds]

Unfortunaly.. i watched it, even though i knew it was going to happen.. so sad and very shocking... i wish i could just watch the first forty.. but alsa i can't...



-reds



my banana dances for smut

Tara in a wet shirt, Tara in a wet shirt. Tara in. A. Wet. Shirt. “Of course.”-Willow From Remember to Breath By Yellow Crayon



Now that just sucks- me

[WillowRTaraM1]

Unfortunatly.. I watched the episode.. back when the show was still on I refused to read any spoilers on the internet.. I thought it was better to be in suspense about what was going to happen.. boy big mistake.. I would NEVER have watched seeing red if I had known what was going to happen.. oh well what is past is past I guess



Amber herself has never seen the episode Seeing Red and does not plan on it....good for her

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Ooo I feel just like santa except thinner and younger and female and...well Jewish- Willow

[demelzie]

my gf had seen it and told me what happened, so i thought, no way im gonna see that!!! the whole series of buffy ends then in my opinion - willow and tara are forever happy and buffy has to continually fight vamps and monsters for the rest of time ^_^

[eponinethen]

I live in Sweden where that episode hasn't been aired yet.

I downloaded all episodes, in completely wrong order so I actually watched the episodes after Seeing Red and some episodes from season 7 with JFK, before I saw like any episodes with Tara at all. So I knew all the time that she was going to die.. And Seeing Red was maybe the last episode I ever saw..

(It really wasn't good to see it like that, it made everything with Tara so sad, since I knew all the time that she was going to die..)

[Dragonflygirl10]

none of the above. I watched it because I felt like I should see the sceene, and, while I'm glad I watched it, I simply refuse to accept the blue shirt sceene. It kind of bothers me when people make music videos and other such things as their way of "letting Tara go"; you don't have to let her go! she isn't real! thus, she is as alive or dead as you say she is!

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Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you criticize them you are a mile away from them, and you have their shoes.

-Friieda Norris

[Kerrison20]

I also felt like I "had" to watch it. I didn't "want" to see it. I wanted it to have never happened to begin with. Like most of you, I usually say that it never happened, Entropy was the last episode.



But then there are other days when I remember it and I cry. As dumb as this sounds, on those days, I pull out my dvd, watch the ep. all the way to the end, and sob like a little baby. And then I make a cup of cocoa and curl up on the couch with my copy of Tulipp's "Terra Firma" By the time I'm finished reading, I feel better.



Weird, I know.



Lisa

Willow finally knew the truth, that she didn’t need a reason to make love to Tara, because making love to Tara was a reason in and of itself. -Sassette

[UnicornLover]

um... i didn't know that was going to happen so i was more than willing to watch it because i heard that there was going to be / goodness, but i had no idea that, that was going to happen.



hey, in my world... tara is still alive.



~*Shawna*~

[Tangetman]

I love the begining of the episode (especially the bedroom scene)..."after the moon went down!" I loved the chemistry. I love Dawn's reaction to finding the two of them together again. (Exactly how I felt). I loved the "evil scheme" Willow came up with...

I have watched the entire episode and I still to this day, in perfect denial, hoping against hope, believe that there is a way to bring Tara back. I'd like to write fanfic about it someday.

It hurts a lot to see what happened and believe that that was the end, so I simply don't believe it.

You never know what might happen down the road....