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Date Posted: 05:21:39 03/17/02 Sun
From a Season 4 Doug Petrie interview. I put the spoiler warning in because we know where the W/T thing is going
Speaking of the series romantic relationships, Petrie has his own take on why, in the words of South Park's Mr. Mackey, "Sex is bad, mmmkay" on Buffy. Face it - Buffy & Angel; Willow & Oz; Willow & Xander; Faith & Xander - anytime the characters sleep with one another on Buffy, bad things happen.
"We really try to stay away from the horror movie staple of two kids having sex and then, usually the woman being killed in some horrible way," Petrie says. "Our basic approach isn't so much that sex is bad, but that high school and early college romance is fraught with peril. The odds of having your heart broken in high school and college are very close to 100 per cent, and everyone goes through heartbreak. It's more dramatic to go through heartbreak than to have a perfect relationship."
It all comes down to drama, Petrie says, and heartbreak and characters pining for one another makes for good drama, while happy couples don't. Although that maxim will be tested with Willow and Tara.
"Willow and Tara are going to have a good, happy, satisfying relationship," Petrie says. "That's something that we're more acutely aware of and we definitely don't want to touch on 'being a lesbian is bad.' We've all seen shows where if you have any kind of gay tendencies, you must be killed or made to suffer for no other reason other than you're gay.
We're hyper aware of that, so we're more predisposed to have things work out for Willow and Tara. In fact, if Tara were a guy, I would predict a near 100 per cent chance of a breakup for Willow. The fact that Tara is not a guy may make things work out better, because we can avoid what we feel is this old cliché."
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