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The character who dies is very likely Tara. She will die by the end of
sweeps.
Updated 2-1-02:
Edited 2-2-02: I edited some of the info I posted to make it more vague.
I don't want to get any of these people in trouble.
I have agreed to retract the spoiler I posted about Tara dying if I have
confirmation that she survives episode 17. So far, I do not have that
confirmation. In fact, I don't feel it is confirmed yet that she survives
episode 16.
I'm going to take a few paragraphs and explain how I came to the conclusion
that Tara would die by the end of sweeps. (Note: as Marti Noxon's recent
Dreamwatch comments confirm, episode 16 was originally planned as a sweeps-ender,
and it was only UPN's last-minute pre-emption decision that changed that
plan.)
In early December, I made contact with two sources. Source A was going
to provide me with sides from Episode 12, which had just finished filming.
Source A had an on-set source who had access to these sides. As I was
provided with these sides, which were legitimate sides, I would be an
idiot to discount what this person told me. This person also said that
Amber was leaving the show.
After the New Year, I e-ed Source A again to ask if there were any more
sides. In our emails, I was told that Amber was not working lately. This
was during filming of episode 15. As AngelX has now confirmed, Tara is
not in episode 15. A few days later, Source A e-ed me to say that I could
obtain episode 16 sides, which I received last Monday and posted about
here on Spoiler Zone. These are legitimate sides; a Buffy call sheet is
a hard thing to fake.
Again, I would be an idiot to ignore or dismiss this person's obvious
connection to the set of Buffy.
Most recently, Source A told me that Amber was still leaving, and that
Source A thought she was filming her last episode. I think this indicates
Tara may leave in episode 16 or 17.
Meanwhile, also in early December, I heard from Source B. Source B e-ed
me about a scene that had been filmed involving Buffy and Spike. Oh, and
by the way, Tara was going to be killed off. (Sorry, Tara fans, but this
is a fellow Spike fan, so the Spike news was the important stuff.) This
was during the filming of 13. When I learned in late December that AngelX
of Buffy Cross &
Stake had a script for 13, I asked her about the scene, which she
confirmed was in the script for 13. Therefore, Source B was confirmed
on one part of the info I was given; it seems likely that Source B was
also correct about the other part.
Source A merely says Amber is leaving. Source A knows very little about
the actual show (tried to tell me Halfrek was getting married in episode
16) but does seem knowledgeable about Amber's comings and goings. Source
B, who has been proven credible on other issues, tells me Tara is dying.
There have been other bits of confirmation. Sweetie of FanForum, whose
information has been almost entirely credible, posted that she had heard
that Tara dies. I checked with her to make sure she was not basing her
claim on anything I said, and she said she wasn't. And I think we all
know there is another spoiler disseminator out there who believes Tara
will be the Big Scooby Death. I spoke with that source on the topic in
late December or early January, and that source was not part of my original
decision to post the spoiler.
Quite frankly, there are two bits of info that make me doubt that this
spoiler will happen. First is that Wanda seems to be suggesting it will
(though what she meant in her most recent chat is up in the air--another
victim of garbled syntax). If Wanda says it will happen, I have to doubt
it! Sarcasm aside, the other thing that makes me doubtful is Steve DeKnight's
insistence last week that Tara would die over his dead body. It would
be extremely cruel for him to say that and then for Tara to be killed
off. We cannot rule out that writers would lie, but that seems a bit extreme.
And though I will be accused of trying to Cover My Ass by saying this,
there are some strong indications that there is behind-the-scenes flux.
Anthony Stewart Head's recent comments to a fan (originally posted on
the Watcher Girls list and reposted on the Kitten Board) suggest that
despite this late date, there are no firm plans for episodes 19-22 (17
is filming now and 18 is probably written):
"I asked ASH whether he would be in anymore Season 6 eps. His response
was that
he's 'supposed to be but doesn't really know as it's all confusing and
up in
the air at the moment.'"
If they don't even know right now if or when Giles will appear, then perhaps
they have made changes that they have to accommodate. Clearly, his comments
suggest some sort of change and confusion over at ME. In addition, there
have been rewrites of scenes. I know definitely about a rewrite of an
episode 16 scene, and there seems to be another rewrite that happened.
Both rewrites seem to have the hand of Joss, so rumors that he is taking
a more active part in the show recently are somewhat credible, though
I have also been given to understand that he has always reviewed all scripts
prior to filming.
I've spent the past 2 months being alternately attacked for posting this
spoiler and supported by good friends and spoiler colleagues who understand
that I had logical reasons for posting what I did. In the next few weeks,
I expect that we will find out for sure one way or another, so I decided
to take this opportunity to explain my reasoning. I did not post this
spoiler to cause trouble, to torture anyone, or to somehow make Spike
look good at the expense of other characters (not sure how that would
happen, but it's been an implication in some of the attacks). I do not
hate Tara or Amber Benson. I posted what I believe to be the truth, based
on logical reasons. If Tara survives episode 17, then obviously my sources
were confused, mis- or underinformed or (less likely) lying to me. I will
retract the spoiler, but I will never apologize for posting it in the
first place. Anyone with an ounce of intelligence who had received the
same information from the same sources would have taken it seriously,
too.
Though I normally have a liberal reposting policy, no one has my permission
to post the material on this page elsewhere. You may post the URL but
not the text.
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