Maybe Willow was making feel Tara comfortable. I feel like they both connected in a deep level and that helped with their mutual insicurities. I don't mean it like in a idealized romantic bangelian way, but in a more pratical one of people slowly knowing and liking each others. But yes, all your points are totally valid and I also saw Tara as a shy person but certainly she has some strong roots unlike many other characters and we know/consider very little about that. I kinda don't buy the all-angsty childhood for that reason: because Tara is also strong at her core. Because of her mother? Because of other people influences? I feel like she knew pain but also love and goodness.


Make it four? some of the outfits and accessories in S4 just make me shake my head. It's not until S5 that she becomes really "elegant", as blackfrancine described her. (Barring the pimp coat in OAFA of course. And that pink satin blouse after Riley left.)

I agree. She became more sophisticated in the latest seasons. (But I love the pink blouse! I mean, I wouldn't wear it but she looked so good with it!) I love the cherries dresses - I have a major kink for the cherries dresses - in S4 and how she seemed young and happy even through her fashion choices. I love some Willow's shirts in that season, like the one she wears in Doomed.

I agree that the actresses are generally much more pretty than regular people - and the hair! The hair is always so perfect. It can't be real - but the dresses aren't impossible. I mean, look at Gossip Girl. That really gives a totally false perception of teenage girls. (I don't watch GG but I saw sometimes promos and stuff)