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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Staffan" data-source="post: 180273" data-attributes="member: 907">1) Who was Cordelia? Why does she and Zander have such a weird love/hate relationship? When did she leave, and why?Cordelia used to be the rich queen-bitch of Sunnydale High. She eventually mellowed a little and got hooked up with Xander. This led to some ostracism from her previous circle which caused them to break up for one episode, but Cordy's self-esteem isn't that easily broken - the episode ended with her telling her clique (which included Harmony before she became a vampire) that she can bloody well be with anyone she pleases. She and Xander broke up after he and Willow kissed while Cordy and Oz watched - they did make peace after a while, but they never got back together again.At the end of season 3, Cordy's family lost their money to the IRS  ("OK, so he made a little error on his tax papers... twelve years in a row."). This lead to Cordy moving to LA where she was trying to become an actress which didn't work out too well. Instead, she got a job as secretary at Angel investigations and eventually got the "power" of visions.2) What's with Willow? In the episode I saw last night (when the coach was turning the swim team into sahuagin), she was all excited by the thought of the swim team naked. This is strange, because I'm used to her being a lesbian. When did she turn? When she started college, she tried to hook up with a group of Wiccans there. Disappointed in their shallowness (she described them as a "bunch of wanna-blessed-bees"), she did hook up with one person in the group - Tara (Tara apparently wasn't very well-liked by the group either). Along with Tara, she learned a few more things about spells and after being heartbroken over Oz's leaving for a while she and Tara fell in love.3) When did Tara appear? What's her story? In the musical (which I've seen a dozen times, I love VHS  ), she sang she's been through hell. What horrible thing happened? What was the argument that they had, that Willow thought she had to erase with the spell? See above for Tara's introduction. Tara has also had a bit of a falling-out with her family - apparently, the women of the family have all been reasonably powerful witches, and the men started a legend about the women turning to demons when they became 20, so they needed to be kept in line. This was of course bogus, and when Tara's family came to get her on her 20th birthday they were rather firmly rebuffed by the Scoobies.The "being through hell" thing referred to in the song was probably when Tara was mindscrewed by Glory - the 5th season big bad who needed to drain people's sanity to keep her own. The argument she and Willow had was about Willow's overuse of magic to solve all sorts of problems - for instance, when looking for Dawn in a crowd of people at the Bronze, Willow suggested using magic to shift everyone above the age of 16 into a parallell dimension for a few seconds.4) When did Anya appear? How did she and Zander hook up? I know she was a vengeance demon, and that her schtick was men who abuse or take advantage of women, so who summoned her? Anya wasn't exactly summoned - she and the other vengeance demons seem to be more proactive, in that they seek out those who want vengence without being summoned. After Xander and Cordy had broken up, Cordy was *really* mad at him. Anyanka took the form of a cute high-school girl and got Cordy to pour her heart out to her, with Cordy blaming Buffy for her troubles and wishing Buffy had never come to Sunnydale - leading to an alternate reality where Buffy never did come to Sunnydale and where the Master (1st season Big Bad, really old vampire) had broken free and his horde of vampires roamed Sunnydale pretty much at will and where both Willow and Xander (among others) had become vampires (Evil Vampire Willow looks *hot*, by the way). Eventually in this alternate reality, Giles managed to get Anyanka's focus, a green emerald necklace and smash it leading to the nullification of the alternate reality and Anya being trapped in human form without demon powers.Eventually, she assimilated reasonably well into human society and got really attracted to Xander. She figured that if she had sex with him once, she would get over that attraction but that obviously didn't happen.5) In the musical, Giles and Buffy were talking about what happened on Halloween. What happened on Halloween? Is this when Buffy died? I guess it refers to Dawn telling the gang that she was going to sleep over at a friend's place when she (and the friend in question) were really going to hang out with boys - boys who turned out to be vampires and nearly killed Dawn and her friend.6) HOW did Buffy die?By jumping through a portal nexus in order to close it at the 5th season finale. She did technically die once before, but that was easily fixed with some CPR by Xander.7) What's with Angel? One episode, he's lovey-dovey, and another (non-sequential) episode, he's attempting to turn people into vampires so that they will go after Buffy. When first vampirized, Angelus and his sire Darla went on a rampage of destruction across Europe, eventually joined by Angelus's "child" Drusilla and her "child" Spike. During this time, Angelus killed and drained a gypsy who was apparently quite popular with her clan. This led to the gypsy clan putting a curse on Angelus that would bring his soul back, letting him feel the full weight of his actions. Like all curses, it must have a breaking condition - When Angel has a moment of "true happiness", the curse will be lifted.In the second season, Angel's and Buffy's relationship got more and more involved, which eventually led to them ending up in bed together. This gave Angel the moment of true happiness that would lift the curse, leading to the re-emergence of the evil Angelus who went on to be that season's Big Bad. Willow managed to re-curse Angel (Willow's first use of major mojo, by the way) at the same time as he was swallowed into a hell-dimension by a demon statue he was trying to awaken, but he did eventually come back. Realizing that he and Buffy couldn't stay near one another without eventually letting their passion get the better of them again, he left Sunnydale and took up residence in LA (getting his own spinoff in the process).</blockquote>

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