Mallory Rubin

You know, you mentioned the stutter, her sexuality and navigating that.

You wonder right away, like how many times and how many moments in Tara's life here at Sunnydale, but in all the years before, has she been surrounded by a group of people who'd

don't see her clearly and accept her for who she is or embrace her for who she is.

So I just feel very tenderly toward her.

And like, I thought that the kind of graciousness and generosity with which she navigated Oz's return was like pretty amazing.

And that not a lot of people on this show or in any walk of life would have been able to be that giving to another person.

So I'm, I'm a fan so far.

I'm excited to see, and of course she's a cat lover.

So, you know,

Harrowing for me to confront that Willow was like team dog.

I love dogs.

I love all animals.

But then wonderful to see how quickly Willow was just absolutely captivated by the cat.

So, yeah, I'm a fan.

I feel protective of Tara and of their relationship, and I'm excited to see where it goes.

Yeah, so I was going to ask you about, there's the, like, this kind of sabotaging of the spell moment, which...

When I watched the first time, season four, I was like, wait, did I miss when they closed the loop on that?

And then when I rewatched it, I was like, I don't believe that we got clarity on that, at least inside of this season.

So sometimes, especially in like a 22-episode season of a show, things happen and maybe they've remained open loops.

But that struck me as something that we will return to at a certain point.