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Originally posted by Hjermsted:
The rumormill is suggesting that Amber Benson will be back on Buffy for close to her usual number of episodes next season.

I doubt Whedon & Co. will bring her character Tara literally back from the dead. They've done that with too many characters in the show already. Of limits are the following methods of bringing Tara back (due to the been there, done that factor):

* resurrection by magic (Buffy season 6).
* crawling back out of Hell/wherever (Angel on BTVS season 3).
* Zombie (Joyce briefly season 5)
* CPR (Buffy, season 1)

However, there are several other sci-fi/fantasy/soap opera methods for bringing back Amber Benson next season:

* Tara as ghostly visitation or poltergeist.
* Tara/Willow communicating in dreams/meditation/phantom zone style.
* Tara shows up in Flashbacks/memories.
* Tara's past lives are explored in pre-Buffy historical sequences (ala Angel, Spike, Dru and Darla)
* Tara from another dimension comes to SunnyD.
* Tara -and all of the Scoobs- were cloned (by the Initiative before it was mothballed?).
* Tara has an evil twin.
* Prior to her death, Tara recorded a series of Wiccan info-mercials that are finally set to air posthumously on SunnyD public access.
* Could Tara have somehow been vamped after she was shot? (a stretch, I know)
* Tara never actually died, but merely went into a catatonic state that fooled everybody.
* Amber Benson could be playing an entirely new character in season 7 (in demon make up for example).

Whichever method lends itself best to the long-term presence of Tara in season 7 AND can be "logically" accepted by the audience is the one I'm betting the writers will be running with.

This is assuming the rumors of Amber's return are true.

mattro

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* Tara never actually died, but merely went into a catatonic state that fooled everybody.

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Originally posted by bobknaptor:
Unfortunately, I think she is an ex-Tara.

That'll put marzipan in your pie plate, bingo

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Originally posted by Nightfly:
Ummh...supernatural or superpower is like being gay? Now that's something to munch on.....

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Originally posted by Novagrass:
I was watching The Gift last night, and something just screamed out at me.

"I was so lost"
"I found you... I will always find you, no matter what."
(something along those lines)

Normally, I wouldn't read things like this into the series, and I usually don't... but since the episode was written by Joss, and Joss is the only one who really ever does anything "prophetic," i feel it's a possibility that Willow will "find" Tara in the afterlife or something... or maybe Tara will find Willow and help her or something crazy like that.

There's also the parts in Restless where she acts as a guide to the rest of the gang... and a part where she guides Willow when she's lost in the curtains.

I usually hate it when people say stuff like this... but since most of the stuff in Restless has come true, it wouldn't surprise me if that is part of the gang's prophcey dreams. Not saying that it will happen... just saying it's a possibiblity. I still fee, however, that the most logical way we'll ever see Amber Benson as Tara is if she's in flashback form.

(reading back over this, I sound *just* like the people I hate... reading too much into the little stuff.)

--Dylan Palmer, aka NoVaGrAsS--

... I guess it's a Joss thing...

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