Tara - was she a bigger icon than Buffy?

[Cynthia Taz]

I never join the discussion in here before but here it goes...

You don't have to be the odd one out because I too enjoyed season six. I personally liked how screwed up Buffy was getting I think it was a nice change from the unrealistic view that she would always make the right choice. Plus season six saw OMWF and Tara become a bigger character albeit not much but any Tara is good.

As much as I hate Tara's death, Season 6 is my favorite too. I think it angers me more that Tara wasn't bought back in Season 7 than her being killed (and it did take me sometime before I finally realized this... um...). And to be honest, if I do have a say on the script, I'll probably kill Tara in season 6 too . I love her, don't get me wrong, but it is the only thing that will provoke Willow in such way. I don't think it will have the same effect if it's Buffy or Xander who gets killed.

Interestingly enough, here we are coming up on 5 years later, people are still talking about how stupid killing Taea was.

Because we all love Tara? Seriously though, i think Tara's death is like something that you hate most in your life that you can never change. No matter how many years it'll still always in your mind, lurking... (sounds a bit scary... um... )

Back to the topic: is Tara a bigger (or better) icon than Buffy? Well, I don't even know there's an icon anywhere in the show... but out of all other characters (except Buffy and Tara) I'll have to say Joyce (think how much she has sacrificed for Buffy, and at the same time real enough to be believed as a real person instead of just a character).

If I have to choose between Tara and Buffy? definitely Tara. Though I think Tara's kind of thing that is too good to be true in real life...

or maybe i'm just too depressed to see the good in human....

[The Rose24]

I agree with most of your post, but there were other ways to provoke Willow than completely killing Tara.

[Pinocchio1940]

There were other ways to provoke Willow than completely killing Tara.

I think if they had stayed true to Willow's loyalty, just the fact that Buffy, her best friend, was shot by Warren could have easily made her rise in a fury.

[writerfreak]

There were other ways to provoke Willow than completely killing Tara.

I think if they had stayed true to Willow's loyalty, just the fact that Buffy, her best friend, was shot by Warren could have easily made her rise in a fury.

While I do think that killing Buffy or Xander would have gotten her to go all black-eyed and veiny, I think it still wouldn't have been enough because ultimately Tara would have been the calming force.

And as a personal opinion Tara was bigger and better as an icon. She represented a lot of things on the show and her character itself hit a few chords deeply personal to me. I cannot speak for anyone other than myself, but I know that for me there has never been, and most likely will never be another icon as big as Tara, or Amber. Both her and her character touched me in ways I couldn't begin to express. There's no better way to be an icon than to reach out to a person, even unknowingly, and touch a piece of their heart.

writerfreak

[littlewicca]

i should say yes to that questiong, i will tell you why tomorrow, now im

[GoodWitch]

Bigger? No. More important to some? Absolutely.

Interestingly enough, here we are coming up on 5 years later, people are still talking about how stupid killing Tara was.

Warlock

Well, time doesn't change the reality that Joss's decision to kill Tara Was stupid. But it was more than just stupid. It was an Old; Common; Tired; Overdone story line. I remember thinking how disappointed I was by Tara's death... What I was Disappointed by mostly was that Joss couldn't use his self-touted brilliance and do something REALLY DIFFERENT; Really Iconoclastic and, heck, Downright Original... let the lesbian LIVE. For Once!
For me a lot of what went on in S6 Didn't work for me. The Buffy/Spike (and I Love Spike!) sexcapades; the Willow/Magic Addiction; and tho' the Willow/Tara break-up was sad, I figured they would get back together... And the brutal killing of Tara was the crowning jewel of insult for the season. Yes, even five years later, killing Tara was a bad idea.
As far as Tara being a bigger role model than Buffy in S6... well, Tara sure was the most mature behaving of the adult characters. She was not co-dependant regarding Willow's "magic addiction". She was probably the only stabblizing force in Dawn's life which is why Dawn was so upset when Tara left Willow. So in a modeling-how-a-responsible-adult-behaves kind of way, Tara certainly had it all over Buffy. But Buffy was Still the hero of the story and of the show, however flawed she was at that juncture. That is something Tara could not overshadow. Jan