Amber Benson on the "Bury Your Gays" trope and giving Tara a better ending in Slayers: A Buffyverse Story, an audible series set in an alternate time.
The Big Picture Season 6 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer is arguably the series’ darkest chapter. The first few episodes see the Scooby Gang resurrecting Buffy from the dead only to discover that she was resting peacefully in heaven. Things only get more bleak from here as Buffy goes to work a miserable job at the Doublemeat Palace, Willow and Tara breakup, Xander leaves Anya at the altar, and, oh yeah, Spike attempts to rape Buffy.
While there’s so much to pick apart here, the death of Tara was one of the most shocking and heartbreaking moments of the series. During a roundtable at New York Comic-Con, Candace Kaw of The Geeky Waffle asked Benson about the crushing moment in question and how it felt for her to bring Tara back into the fold and continue her story in the new Audible series, Slayers: A Buffyverse Story.
Referring to the famous "Bury Your Gays” trope, Kaw spoke about the “traumatic experience” that so many viewers faced because of Tara’s death. “You know, that kills me,” Benson says, “It kills me that became associated with Tara and Willow.
Tara’s Fresh Start in 'Slayers' Although she’s back in action, Benson teases that the Tara Maclay that audiences reunite with in Slayers is different from the one they tearfully bid adieu to in 2002. “But for me… keeping the good times as part of her as the big sign and then letting her do kind of bad things. We worked really hard to make sure… because the fandom was very damaged by what happened, and I took it personally.
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