As Willow and the gang waste time looking for her, Tara has her brain sucked out by Glorificus. After that, she is difficult to control, can't contribute anything to the group, and is Willow's sad burden throughout the rest of season 5.
In Season 6, after playing house with Tara and Dawn, Willow uses dark magic to bring Buffy back from the dead and then becomes addicted to the high it gives her to have immense power. Willow spirals and, at one point, she even uses a forget spell on Tara, with Tara later finding out.
When the going gets really tough, Tara leaves. She doesn't want to see Willow unravel even more. It wasn't long before that Willow had nursed a drooling and irate Tara with her brain sucked out but when Willow needs her the most, Tara leaves. When Tara leaves Willow, her anger feels misplaced throughout the episodes that she is gone.
She still tries to be Dawn's mother but refuses to come home like it's a badge of honor she wears loud and proud. Dawn practically begs her to come back but she won't. Either she doesn't have the self-control to stay away from Willow or she was trying to punish her.
Either way, she ends up giving in and wanting to be with Willow again but polices her every move when she comes home. Willow is overjoyed to have Tara back at home and the two spend a good couple of days in bed together celebrating. Dawn is ecstatic that Mom and Mom are back together.
Then, right after that period, Tara is killed by stray gunfire when Warren comes for Buffy at their home. Her last words, "your shirt" uttered in complete surprise before she collapses are lackluster and do no justice to the end of a major character's story.
Even if you never liked Tara, that ending was pretty anticlimactic. After that, she's just gone. Willow goes dark just a few weeks after magic detox and wants to burn down the entire world to end their suffering. Christina is a mother, a writer, a crafter, and an entrepreneur. She has been a copywriter for fifteen years and has written for all manner of publications large and small as a ghostwriter. In her spare time, she writes blogs about parenting, working from home, and running small businesses on her website and on various freelancing websites.
Willow and Tara quickly find excuses to leave, even lying that their interest in witchcraft was just a phase. Later that night, Willow, Anya , and Xander are in line to enter the Bronze.
The leader of the Wicca group, Kelly Eisen , overhears them, and says Caitlin is a loser that has been mooning over Willow and Tara after they left the group.
Angrily, Willow points out Kelly's hypocrisy on preaching "benevolent earth goddess stuff," but calling someone a loser for having different beliefs. Entering the club, Willow tells Xander and Anya she fells even guiltier for the group ostracizing Caitlin, but they argue that the girl was still horning herself in Willow's relationship with Tara, and it wasn't her job to play big sister to Caitlin. Meanwhile, Caitlin goes to Tara's dorm room, having found a spell she wants to try with her.
She begins reciting the spell, but Tara stops her, warning that spells are dangerous even when spoken by an amateur. Being called an amateus angers Caitlin, who storms out calling Tara selfish, and runs away into the woods. Tara prays that Thespia keeps the girl safe.
Still running, Caitlin trips, falls, and her book falls open on a certain page. She uses the indicated spell, summoning Morrigan. Elsewhere, a murder of crows attacks Kelly, then tree branches take Stacy Barrett away. The next day, Willow and Tara see the firemen rescuing Stacy's corpse from the top of a tree, and someone comments Kelly has been pecked to death by birds.
They realize someone is killing members of the Wicca group with magic, and agree on who could be the responsible. They visit Caitlin in her dorm, who has been crying with guilt, but tells them she had no idea this would happen.
In the hallway, Tara explains to Willow that Morrigan is a powerful and evil Celtic deity, who must have punished those Caitlin perceived as a threat.
With Giles and Buffy unavailable, Willow decides to warn the other girls, while Tara researches how to stop Morrigan. Outside, when Willow finds another girl, Dana , dead, she hurries back to Tara.
Meanwhile, Caitlin tries to get close to Tara, but she asks Caitlin to focus on the research. Willow enters the room and sees them holding hands, just as Tara was taking Caitlin's hand from her. Tara immediately explains that they were just talking about magic, and nothing could have happened because there was magic only between Willow and her.
Tara and Alyson Hannigan's Willow clicked immediately, resulting in Willow discovering her interest in the same sex -- specifically, Tara. Friendship, romance and magic ensued. Tara and Willow went on to be a great representation of a same-sex relationship in a scripted drama, and they proved to be one of the best romantic couples in the series' seven-season history. That's a credit as much to the writing as it is to Hannigan and Benson's undeniable chemistry.
Amber Benson was asked about how she feels about changing the face of LGBT representation on TV, and she responded with praise for series creator Joss Whedon and his ability to create " real characters. I feel very blessed to have played Tara on Buffy.
It wasn't about gratuitous making-out scenes. It was about 2 people who just happened to be of the same gender falling in love. Joss wrote real characters. He wasn't trying to fill quotas. He was trying to create 2 people who just happened to be gay. Fans of the series will likely agree with her on that. The same-sex nature of Tara and Willow's relationship was addressed on occasion, when it was relevant.
But Buffy the Vampire Slayer was always a series to choose the metaphor over a more literal approach. In the case of Tara and Willow, their participation in witchcraft was more often a focal point than their sexuality.
Of course, their mutual interest in and skill with magic was a big part of the connection that sparked, right from the beginning, and it proved to be a big turning point for Willow in many ways.
Looking at the series as a whole, Amber Benson's character was crucial to Willow's character development, and the series benefited from that.
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