Also with the hubris: not telling Giles, Dawn or Spike. That shows she knew she was doing something potentially very dangerous and wrong, she also knew that she could to, an extent, control Xander, Anya and Tara and was willing to.
edited because now this sounds all argumentative with that last few posts. not meant to be.
Okay, yeah, good points about the Raising. When watching belonging I really noticed the all-19 vibe. No older people to help with the sense of proportion. What about casting that spell on Tara? That was the part I found most unforgivable.
She had no idea.
Still. No Buffy and the First Evil wins.
What about casting that spell on Tara? That was the part I found most unforgivable.
As for most of us as well.
No older people to help with the sense of proportion.
To me that doesn't excuse anything, though. Willow did this on purpose - to exclude other points of view that would disagree with her.
No Buffy and the First Evil wins.
Wins what? It caused the trouble in S7 because of what Willow et al did.
We don't actually know that; it could've been her first resurrection. (Though, yeah, probably not.)
What about casting that spell on Tara? That was the part I found most unforgivable.
Oh yes. I'm behind Buffy leaping merrily into bed with S7 Spike before I'm behind Willow and Tara getting back together, no matter how lovely the scene at the end of Entropy was. (And I'm not in favor or the first one, either, to be clear.) I had to kind of unfocus my eyes and forget about the memory spell on Tara exactly the same way a lot of people have to kind of unfocus their eyes about the attempted rape in Seeing Red, because I know my reaction to it is way out of proportion to the one the writers wanted me to have.
I don't think that resuscitation is comparable to resurrection.
I don't think that resuscitation is comparable to resurrection.
Yup. That was very mundane, and is attempted all the time. Beseeching Osiris for the warrior of the people, less so.
After her second death, her first one did seem kind of lame.
She did get more power from it, though. I've always wondered why. Other than because it was the season finale, I mean.