Admittedly I was never a big Keanu Reeves fan - until Something's Got to Give with Diane Keaton and I adored his character: a young doctor who is a fan of her work and values her intelligence and talent, and is totally comfortable with the fact that he's younger than her and she's a decidedly "mature" woman? Oh yes please. And it's not played as a "joke" - she not's called a cougar ie "on the prowl" (I HATE HATE HATE that term used for older women/younger men.) She didn't have to wait for him to "grow up" or drag him kicking and screaming from delayed adolescence because he was already an adult. He was charming and courteous and I wanted to clone him - and I'm a lesbian. (Actually he probably struck a chord with me in part because I'm likewise much younger than my partner.)
Which meant of course she ends up with the Jack Nicolson character. *pouts*
I had understand it was Amber's decision to leave.
Most of this is what I've read elsewhere (including ten years ago): The Dark Willow arc was planned by Joss almost from the beginning, based on the Jean Grey/Dark Phoenix arc in the X-Men comics. Oz (Seth Green) was originally supposed to die in S4 and Willow go dark then but then he decided to leave the show. "Tara" was only supposed to be on for a handful of episodes and then be killed off; but she and Willow/Tara were so popular it took the writers/producers by surprise (I guess they were all heterosexual?) and they kept her on much longer. They were the first and only realistic, long-term same-sex (lesbian) couple on American tv, so, duh.
I've read that Joss Whedon sat down with Amber Busch, who played Warren (and was also Amber's boyfriend) that Adam was going to "kill his girlfriend" onscreen - and said this in front of Amber. I'm sure Joss thought he was being funny. Maybe he was nervous about killing off Tara and trying to deflect. (the more I read about Joss the more he reminds me of Xander in that way - not as funny as he thinks he is, and sometimes his "jokes" come off as insensitive or just inappropriate.)
There's a couple of links to interviews with Amber at the Whedonesque site (which I'm not a member of) and certainly a lot more can be found on the internet, but this has to do with the idea of Amber returning for S7, not leaving in S6: http://whedonesque.com/comments/1564 But it was horrible how she died, and the first time there had ever been anything really violent like that on Buffy . I don’t think it was that [producer] Joss [Whedon] was conscious of the lesbian death stereotype when he did was he did. He always told us that Willow and Tara were based on friends of his and his wife’s. He actually wanted me to come back, but as a bad Tara. It was my choice not to do that. It would have hurt too many people.
I was surprised at the comments on the Whedonesque forum that outright accused Benson of assuming the fans were too "dumb" to realize that The First and Tara were not the same character, when that was not her point AT ALL. (She was thinking of the people who would be most affected by the situation? Silly girl */end sarcasm*) I wouldn't want her - or anyone - to do anything they were not 100% comfortable with emotionally for the sake of a paycheck.
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Which meant of course she ends up with the Jack Nicolson character. *pouts*
I had understand it was Amber's decision to leave.
Most of this is what I've read elsewhere (including ten years ago): The Dark Willow arc was planned by Joss almost from the beginning, based on the Jean Grey/Dark Phoenix arc in the X-Men comics. Oz (Seth Green) was originally supposed to die in S4 and Willow go dark then but then he decided to leave the show. "Tara" was only supposed to be on for a handful of episodes and then be killed off; but she and Willow/Tara were so popular it took the writers/producers by surprise (I guess they were all heterosexual?) and they kept her on much longer. They were the first and only realistic, long-term same-sex (lesbian) couple on American tv, so, duh.
I've read that Joss Whedon sat down with Amber Busch, who played Warren (and was also Amber's boyfriend) that Adam was going to "kill his girlfriend" onscreen - and said this in front of Amber. I'm sure Joss thought he was being funny. Maybe he was nervous about killing off Tara and trying to deflect. (the more I read about Joss the more he reminds me of Xander in that way - not as funny as he thinks he is, and sometimes his "jokes" come off as insensitive or just inappropriate.)
There's a couple of links to interviews with Amber at the Whedonesque site (which I'm not a member of) and certainly a lot more can be found on the internet, but this has to do with the idea of Amber returning for S7, not leaving in S6:
http://whedonesque.com/comments/1564
But it was horrible how she died, and the first time there had ever been anything really violent like that on Buffy . I don’t think it was that [producer] Joss [Whedon] was conscious of the lesbian death stereotype when he did was he did. He always told us that Willow and Tara were based on friends of his and his wife’s. He actually wanted me to come back, but as a bad Tara. It was my choice not to do that. It would have hurt too many people.
I was surprised at the comments on the Whedonesque forum that outright accused Benson of assuming the fans were too "dumb" to realize that The First and Tara were not the same character, when that was not her point AT ALL. (She was thinking of the people who would be most affected by the situation? Silly girl */end sarcasm*) I wouldn't want her - or anyone - to do anything they were not 100% comfortable with emotionally for the sake of a paycheck.