Mallory Rubin

So...

I don't know how long Tara will be around, but I hope it's for a while.

And I'm really enjoying the Tara Willow relationship and their respective journeys of discovery.

And just, like, there's such a tenderness with Tara as a character and inside of that relationship.

And I'm so invested in Willow that I think, like, what she is learning about herself and the way that she is –

you know, learning to understand, and I will, it'll come up in another category.

So when we get to our superlatives today, so I won't step on it here, but like one of the moments that I loved so much in these episodes is in Oz's return in New Moon Rising, when there are a number of great Willow Tara conversations in that episode.

But one of the ones that just hit me so hard was Tara saying like, you know, I know, I know what Oz means to you.

And Willow's like, how can you?

And I don't, you know?

And so I just found all of that, like,

very powerful and moving.

Tara is... I think all of the aspects of her character that I've seen so far, the sort of like...

gentleness and the quiet there's something about the way she encourages Willow and her magic and that they encourage each other that is very like empowering and just nurturing and I love that as something in a romantic partner and a friend and someone you're pursuing like a a pursuit a pursuit with pursuing a pursuit professional podcaster here folks um signs of portents signs of portents portents and signs um

The way in the Wicca group meeting with the other students that not only right away we feel that synchronicity between Willow and Tara as people who are...

connected to this magic and to the idea of being a witch and the role of magic in their lives that is distinct from the other people who show up for some completely, like, lesser reason, maybe the social hang or the kind of, like, whatever.

But...

Beyond just that connection that it forges right away between the two of them, I loved what it told us about Tara, you know, the way that the kind of, like, mean girl in the group is like, did you have something to say?

And then Tara recedes and is shy.

And so it shows us the shyness, but more than that, and this is about, like, her magic is a witch.