6.19 - Seeing Red

Warren takes the Trio too far.


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It's all fun and games and jet packs for most of this episode, but it's got a kicker.

So the Trio, as they seem to be called now, have gotten some orbs that make them super powerful. Warren, being the self proclaimed leader of the group, uses them first and gets into a bunch of trouble. Buffy kicks his butt. Warren runs away. The other two members of the Trio are taken into custody and put in jail.

Meanwhile, Willow and Tara have been doin' it all day.

Warren comes into Buffy's yard the next morning with a gun, shoots Buffy, and a stray bullet hits Tara in Willow's room. Tara falls dead, and Willow, in grief and anger, looks up to the sky and her eyes flood with magic.

It's on, mutha humpa!

On a more insightful level, it took a commentary from Espenson for season 5 (I Was Made For Loving You, to be exact) to point something out to me that is sadly true. In that season 5 episode, Warren has built a female robot who he abandoned and who is now searching for him. When the Scoobies are sitting around the table discussing how sick Warren is and judging him, Tara says that she can understand, that maybe he's just sad and lonely. She has no ill will toward him and is the only one in the group willing to give him the benefit of the doubt. Ironic, then, that he is the one responsible for her death a year later.

I am really going to miss Tara. She really fit in and brought something fresh to the dynamic. She was kind, she was quiet, and she was, above all else, incredibly insightful. She saw the good in people, and never seemed to have an ill word about anyone.

Rating: 8/10