Seeing Red

[sexy bexy]

Just wondering how many people chose NOT to watch this episode.

I just can't bring myself to. If I watch it, in sequence, then I have to accept it's happened. The idea of Tara being gone fills me with dread.

My flat mates and I even christened Season 6 the "Old Yeller" season - thinking of "Friends", when Pheobe's grandma cut all the sad films short, pretending that they ended happily...

As far as I'm concerned, season 6 ended with the kiss at the end of "Entropy".

Comments also, please.



Results (total votes = 410):

I wanted to watch it, knowing what was gonna happen.	157 / 38.3%
I only watched it for continuity with the rest of the season.	137 / 33.4%
I watch the first 40mins then quickly turn off...	91 / 22.2%
I haven't brought myself to watch it yet...	10 / 2.4%
I don't think I'll ever watch it.	15 / 3.7%

[Spice Faerie]

Yeah, I knew what was gonna happen but it was compelling like a train wreck. I couldn't (and still can't) take my eyes off. It's like I know it's horrible but I keep clinging desperately to some small hope that it'll magically get better. I don't know. I'll be watching until the show is cancelled. I just can't give up...



Spice

"No candles? Well, I brought one. It's extra flamey..."

[areslei]

Though I've seen it...I refuse to believe that the last 5 minutes occured. I wouldn't call it denial exactly...I just kinda hid my head under my pillow.

you two are the two who are the two
Baby, I said it's all in our hands, got to learn to respect what we don't understand.. Indigo Girls
Now I'm trying to get back to what I know that I should be hoping to God I was just a temporary absentee

[saule77]

See, I watched the whole episode ONCE because I wanted to but after that... the first 40 minutes everytime I watch it again.

I watched it with a few friends not so long ago and they hadn't seen it at all so they wanted to watch it all. I left the room... Just couldn't handle it...



If anything, my advice is to watch the first scenes (W/T in bed, Dawn finds out and then in the living room...). Then you can stop... Then you must stop...

"You are Willow Rosenberg, vixen-y lighter of the flame and keeper of my heart.”

(Camp Flutie by Rane)

[urnofosiris]

Well I watched those first 40 minutes. Amber and Aly, not the script, are what made it worthwhile for me. The show ended right then and there, I will never watch another minute of it.

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Tara: "uh Willow?"

Willow: "No dancing naked, huh?...It just won't be the same."

Tara: "That's all right, we can save it for later" ----From Wilderness, the newest WT comic written by Amber Benson and Christopher Golden

[MsTizzyFantastico]

See, I too felt compelled to watch all of it. I knew what was going to happen, but some little part of me kept hoping that the spoilers were wrong, and I had to see for myself. The first time was horrible, and ever since then, I only go back and watch those first 40 minutes. (Although actually I usually watch a lot less than forty minutes as I fast forward through everything but the happy Willow and Tara scenes!)

A Lesson To ME: "Death cannot stop true love. It can only delay it a little while."- The Princess Bride

[Pipsqueak]

I was spoiled and knew exactly what was going to happen, and even though I wanted - needed - to see it, I felt sick the whole way through. Just waiting for the bomb to drop. I was literally curled up into a ball during the entire episode, because I was dreading it so much. That ep marked the first time that I ever had to force myself to watch Buffy. (Since then, of course, I've gotten lots of practice.)



Plus, I saw SR directly after Entropy, so there wasn't even a break to celebrate that beautiful kiss at the end. It went straight from W/T reunited to Tara dead and Willow evil. blegh.

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"Nothing in the world is the way it ought to be. It's harsh, and cruel. But that's why there's us. Champions.
It doesn't matter where we come from, what we've done or suffered, or even if we make a difference.
We live as though the world was what it should be, to show it what it can be." -- Angel

[Chewster]

Am I the first person to say that I had the chance but I never watched it in this poll? Guess I must be. I did not bother to record it in June because I already knew that it all ended at Entropy for me. Even though I now have the video boxset I will not be watching further than Entropy (and the last tape in the set with the last 3 eps will remain shrink wrapped forever more.) I admit to being led into that opinion by someone else but I think that the decision was right for me and I thank the person involved for her advice.



I would rather remember the end of Entropy, even at the expense of the undoubted good in the first 40 min portion of SR.



Knowing what happened is bad enough. Seeing it. Never ever going to go there.



Ever.

Paul


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[xita]

I watched it because I wasn't sure where it all ended and I wanted every last minute of w/t goodness. So then for my w/t tape I just taped all the way to Tara's big smile and that's it. I'll never watch it again.

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Tara and Willow

Accept NO subsitutes

[BigMac]

Yes I watch it and have it on tape but after the living room part I fast forward it.

Tara: Assume Crash
Positions

[twink]

i just know to get ready to punch stop right after that perfect tara grin...approx 2 sec's b4 the world falls completely and entirely apart.

"You know what's weird?"--W
"Japanese commercials are weird."--T

[mocha fiend 22]

yes i watched it,taped it and i was like crazy after i saw what happened and now i watch the good parts if you can call them that and i taped over the very bad part so in my mind it never happend...

The word "gulp" comes to mind.

[Kendra63]

I have watched the episode and enjoyed the first 40 minutes or so. Kept wishing that the ending was all a bad dream.

[blueAmber]

I watched it, knowing how it was going to end. How could I not. It was an awesome episode, till you know...the end. Ive watched it many times there after, but not the end.

Edited by: xita  at: 10/15/02 10:36:24 am

[Oriyon]

I watched it knowing what would happen and it wasn't nuntil I watched old ep's with Tara that it really sank in that she was gone.



Deb

[Taz]

I watched it until that last commercial break before the horror began, I recently saw it on accident. It was like a train wreck I couldn't turn my head.

I refuse to believe that this is all. ~~Xiren Everything

[Wytchi Grrl]

I heard about it quite a long time before I watched, In away I wanted to watch it, I wanted to see how it was handled, and after I wanted to see warren go(eek! well I was feeling a bit revengeful myself at the time). I didn't cry when it happened, kinded left me very cold inside. I finally cried alot when willow did right at the end of the season.

Now when I watch that season I usually fast foward/busy my self when the bad stuff happen but I love the Old Yella Idea being a friends fan too-dealing with horrors like this we should all be Phoebe-ish now and again.

"RESPECT THE NARRATIVE FLOW MUCH!?"

[TigerEye]

see the way i see it is that if my favourite character is gonna be killed, i want to see how she goes, no matter how bad or horrible it is. It all happened so fast that i just shot up and sorta screamed like willow did. I was shouting 'Tara?!' like willow but i never cried hysterically just a couple of tears here and there. But when willow cried at the end i was crying with her then. sob.

[Katharyn]

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Katharyn

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If I want a little pussy, I got my own to play with.
Chance in Chance.




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[PJ Freak]

Well I knew what was going to happen and I kinda prepared myself for it. Even though it was awful when I finally saw it! I even cried!!! (yes I'm that much of a drama wueen) lol... but now I just watch the tape where I recorded it for the first 40 mins. and then I turn it off soo fast.. don't wanna go there again.



I miss Tara

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Pacey and Joey's Creek

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[Eric Pascal]

I wish I wouldnt have watched ... (

[DawnieUK]

I watched it all the way through the day I bought the 6:2 boxset.. I hadn't seen the episode before, although I knew what was comming.



Putting Amber in the Credits on one hand was nice.. gave her a farewell, but was horrible to the fans, especially those who were lucky enough to have avoided the spoilers



I always watch up until 'Ooh, clothes...' cause the whole episode as far as willow and tara are concerned is beautiful



DawnieUK x x

[Trouble]

Yeah my first post!

I had to watch it, to make sure it wasnt a cruel joke!

And I guess I just felt like a good cry too

[TwiLightJoy]

The first time - I'm spoiler-free so I was really excited about the whole thing: Amber in the credits, Willow and Tara kissing, cuddling, spending most of the epi in bed together. I had no idea what was in store for us. I couldn't have been more shocked if a bullet had come out of the screen and tore through me.



Now I re-watch it and shut it off when it is cutting down to Xander and Buffy in the back yard. Nothing else happens. That was it. No more Buffy.

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[wannabebad2]

I knew it was coming. I had been dreading it for months. But I also knew what the beginning was supposed to be like, so I downloaded the episode before it aired. Then, when Kazaa had finished (which took forever) I wanted to make sure I got the full episode, so I fast forwarded it to the very end to see if there were credits.



Well, I got to just a little before the end. There was Warren screaming like a little baby and then



I knew from "Once More, With Bitterness" that she was going to get shot in the back, but the entire scene was just too painful, especially with Tara's last words being "Your shirt."



What also hurt was watching the last two episodes of the season and seeing Amber's name gone once more from the opening credits. Her name was so natural there! And I should know...I watched the opening of "Seeing Red" a lot.

[Patches]

I had no idea they were going to kill Tara. I was so excited at the beginning of the episode, they were back together all happiness and joy. Seeing Red is most aptly named, by the end that's just what I was doing. THEY CAN'T KILL TARA! I screamed at the screen (as if this would change anything).

[DRUSILLA LOVER]

i knew an i should have known better, i shouldnt have watched it.

[Shewolf]

Spoilers had sufficiently prepared me, so I did watch it. I haven't a lot of times since, since I'm both a W/T and a B/S shipper, and the episode is NOT for me.



But to be honnest, I find the earlier scenes where they're happy much more painfull than the rogue bullet one. There's just a sense of dread throughout.



Like I said though, thank God for spoilers! I can't imagine watching it unspoiled...

"When authorities warn you of the sinfulness of sex, there is an important lesson to be learned. Do not have sex with the authorities."



- Matt Groening

[The Smee]

I, for some reason I can't understand, was not spoiled. I didn't have a clue about the end of season 6, and so was basically hugging myself throughout the episode at the W/T love.



After *that* scene, I froze for about half an hour, with the same cheesy grin on my face, trying to comprehend what I just saw. I couldn't beleive it. Afterwards I just curled up into a little ball and cryed softly.



But it did spur me on to look on the internet about W/T afterwards, which eventually lead me to the Kittens. I can only be thankful of that.

[justin]

I watched all of Seeing Red and I really, really wish that I hadn't.



So does anyone know where I can get either some Lethe's Bramble or one of those devices from Men In Black so that I can make myself forget having seen it.

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