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Message: <blockquote data-quote="takyris" data-source="post: 1266136" data-attributes="member: 5171">To answer your questions:1) Because she [spoiler]died in the first season finale, causing the next Slayer to get called even though she came back (artificial respiration from Xander).  Then, when the second Slayer died, she was replaced with Faith.  Now, the line ends with Faith, not Buffy.  If Buffy dies, no new slayer gets called, because she's already been replaced, sorta, by Faith.  But if Faith dies, a new slayer will get called -- except that events in the series finale make that a moot point.[/spoiler]2) He got it put into his [spoiler]head in the fourth season.  In the fifth season, he joined the team upon discovering that he could attack nonhumans without feeling pain.  In the sixth season, he gets involved with her (although he's had a crush on her since the fifth season), and in the seventh season, he gets the chip removed because it's malfunctioning.[/spoiler]3) Joss has said that he'd always [spoiler]left room for one of the main cast to turn out to be gay.  There are events that could possibly be seen as foreshadowing for both Xander and Willow in the earlier seasons.[/spoiler]4) Having her appear in the credits in the episode in which [spoiler]she died was both a way to credit her for two-plus years of hard work and a way to throw off the fans, who knew that some major character was going to die.  A lot of people had thought it was going to be Anya, although others guessed Tara anyway, since it was the most logical way to have Willow go bad.[/spoiler]5) It only happens when she uses [spoiler]black magic.  Think of it as a Dark Side of the Force thing.[/spoiler]6) Actually, he sired [spoiler]Drusilla, who later sired Spike.  That's part of the reason they don't get along so well.[/spoiler]7) Originally, she was supposed to [spoiler]come back -- it was Joss' plan to have Willow eventually succeed in bringing her back, through a big death/romance plotline.  But Amber Benson's schedule made it impossible for Tara to come back, so Joss had to go with Plan B.[/spoiler]8) He was brought in to give the bad guys a [spoiler]humanlike villain -- the First couldn't actually fight, and the ubervamps couldn't really emote very much, so it was thought that a charismatic, fast-talking bad guy was necessary.[/spoiler]Anything else?Prophetically yours, and now edited for spoiler-free-ness,</blockquote>

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