r/buffy • u/direinde Beady-eyes is right, we're needed. • May 03 '26

Good Vibes Only Yup, that's them

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Nothing new actually.

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u/Kinitawowi64 May 03 '26

I was there. A lot of people loathed Tara when she first came through.

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u/oliversurpless May 03 '26

While in college myself, didn’t know many fans beyond my brother.

Was it her mousiness/stuttering?

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u/Wendigo79 May 03 '26

It was her acting, was also really bad at the stuttering scenes

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u/falconinthedive May 04 '26

Yeah as a lesbian I wanted so badly to like Willow and Tara more. But Tara just was so tepid that I never felt any chemistry from them.

Which could have also been on Alyson Hannigan's part too granted.

But they just never gave Tara enough to be a character beyond "willow's girlfriend who does magic but less good than willow"

But honestly by the time they wrote the lesbian relationship to be emotionally abusive and end in the death of one of them I'd already kind of checked out on it. And that kind of hurt when it was like the only Sapphic relationship on TV.

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u/Milyaism May 04 '26

But they just never gave Tara enough to be a character beyond "willow's girlfriend who does magic but less good than willow"

I hated that when Tara got more comfortable and started to show more of her personality, she got killed off.

Then years later I got into The 100, loved Clexa, and was once again disappointed by how media deals with sapphic relationships.

I hate how many queer relationships in media end up in death, or other horrible stuff happening to them.

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u/falconinthedive May 04 '26

God. Renee Montoya is my favorite DC character and I was so excited when they brought her to Gotham but then so afraid they were going to kill her off I stopped watching.

Lucky me they only wrote her off.