When Fans Attack: "Buffy"

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With Willow finally happy and in love, producers went and killed off girlfriend Tara at the hands of the villainous Warren, feeding right into TV’s “bury your gays” trope.

Fans both inside and outside the LGBTQIA+ community were understandably upset and enraged, adding to what was already a very polarizing season.




The show tried to backpedal on two occasions, including an attempt to get actress Amber Benson back for Season 7’s “Conversations With Dead People.”

But bringing Tara back to the fold just didn’t work out.




Executive producer and showrunner at the time Marti Noxon later expressed regrets with how Tara’s storyline was handled.

“There were parts of Season 6 where I feel we went too far,” she told Vulture. “And I think that killing Tara was — in retrospect, of all the people, did she have to die?”

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