Is this the finale of the comics? Wow, talk about anti-climactic... I can't believe that whedon would put Willow with someone 90 percent of the fandom hates. Oh wait, considering it's whedon, yeah I can believe it...
Yeah, i never did get the reasonthey needed to force someone new for Willow down the audience's throat. One of the few delights in the post series comics was the absence of kennedy. Never knew they got together in the end. That is really stupid.
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The only reason for Tara to return, aside from Buffy's meeting with God and her subsequent boon, would be a story about Willow not accepting loss. But that would undo one of the better told stories in season 7, Willow learning to grieve.
Also, how did they afford her gravestone? I know there's a lot about Tara 's backstory that doesn't make any sense, but the Scoobies are dirt poor this season, and Tara's family doesn't live in Sunnydale. Unless Giles paid for it before returning to Hogwarts, it's still pretty weird.
Never found the fact of Kennedy forcing her way into Willow's bed and her life any kind of story of Willow recovering from her grief. Kennedy was an opportunistic predator. Willow was clearly not ready. Kennedy latched onto the most powerful person who was potentially a partner and wormed her way into the inner circle. She then proceeded to abuse power she really did not have any right to and had not earned.
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The only reason for Tara to return, aside from Buffy's meeting with God and her subsequent boon, would be a story about Willow not accepting loss. But that would undo one of the better told stories in season 7, Willow learning to grieve.
Also, how did they afford her gravestone? I know there's a lot about Tara 's backstory that doesn't make any sense, but the Scoobies are dirt poor this season, and Tara's family doesn't live in Sunnydale. Unless Giles paid for it before returning to Hogwarts, it's still pretty weird.
Well, both Buffy and Tara got headstones. maybe there's a glut of unused headstones in Sunnydale that are on offer for cheap? Nope, it makes no sense! Truthfully, the headstone is not the expensive component... the funeral and the hole in the ground... those are expensive. Did one for a friend and the hole in the ground cost 7 grand. the funeral with the base (the absolute cheapest) metal coffin cost us 7 grand. We never even tried to go for a headstone at the time as we had to rally round (we were his three best friends) and raise money from all the rest of his friends as he did not have any and his family did not have money to pay for it. Had it been just me, I'd have had him cremated (about 2 grand at the time). As a component of funeral and burial expenses, the headstone, unless very elaborate, is not the expensive part. I was quoted amounts under a thousand for basic stones or brass plaques. Big standing stones cost more. This was in 2011 money. California is usually more expensive than the rest of the country.
