Favourite W/T moments or the single most unexpected W/T mome

[Salinger]

........ saying, "THAT, DID NOT just happen?!?!"

So what’s yours?

S6 spoilage below.

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Mine would be from All the Way. It was bad enough to watch W/T argue again, but that last scene was 100% unexpected. I just COULDN'T believe Willow would cast that forget spell on Tara.

I was shocked, dismayed, speechless, baffled, surprised, and astonished. The only other time the BTVS writers evoked such emotions was the surprise ending of, I Was Made To Love You.

Oh, how the plots twist and turn.

[SJ]

When Willow took exception to what Tara said in "Tough Love".

[Original Cici]

When Tara got brain-sucked by Glory, and Willow was running to get to her. I was crying so much, i just couldn't believe it.

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Buffy - 'What happened to Xander?'
Giles - 'He kept poking me with his hook. I sent him over to charmed objects. With any luck he'll poke the wrong one and end up in an alternate dimension inhabited by a fifty-foot Giles that squishes annoying teeny pirates.'

Dawn - 'I kiss all the time. Not that i'm a kiss slut.'

[Hemiola]

I prefer the "funny" unexpected line...

In OMWF after Willow points out that the boys were checking her out and Tara says "Omigod! I'm cured! I want the boys!!"

[Web Warlock]

The kiss in "Bargining".

After trying to get blood from the rock that is WB. The show is on UPN for what, less than a half-hour and we are getting W/T kisses.

Willow going all "pay-backy" on Glory surprised me as well, but I am not certain why, after all who wouldn't.

Warlock.

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[Dumbsaint]

Spoilery for All the Way alert for non-spoiler hos overseas.

Yeah, Willow snapping out of no where and basically telling Tara to sit down and shut up about the whole magic use thing in All the Way was pretty painful. That's the moment that hit me the hardest in terms of the unexpected. But then again after that I gave in and became a spoiler whore extraordinaire. Bwahaha.

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[aladdin]

Spoiler for Season Six

The "I'm a breast gal myself" was definitely most surprising for me...who would have thought that Willow would get to say something like this back in the old days of WB?

"All The Way" was no surprise because I read spoilers but still, the progression of the W/T storyline was much of a surprise as it was nothing that I thought the character of Willow would do to people and especially Tara whom she loves.

Tabula Rasa...*sigh* when I saw the trailer I didn''t expect Willow to mess up with Tara's mind again so I was totally surprised.

[Dr.G]

These are not spoilers kitties, the eps have aired.

Anyway, the moment for me that made me go

was the Flaming O Spell, that was the last episode I was truly unspoiled for. I am used to quite a bit on Dutch tellie, no censorship and all, but that caught me by total surprise, a total very pleasant surprise. And I remember quite clearly what I was thinking at the time.

[xita]

Since I have been spoiled like a child since WAY, I have to say that Hush touch made my jaw drop. I felt like a train had just hit me. I knew it was something big, I knew it. I was so dumbstruck I didn't even catch the conversation at the end.

Besides I think the kiss in The Body, we were hoping that would be the episode but to finally know yes they will kiss and then seeing the caps (spoiled I told you) wow! Speechless. It was perfect.

[BBOvenGuy]

The kiss showing up before the guest credits for "Bargaining" had even finished was a big surprise.

The first thing that comes to mind, though, was Willow's "We're in love. We're lovers. We're lesbian gay-type lovers," in "Checkpoint." That caught me completely by surprise. No way did I ever think the WB would let Willow use the "L" word.

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[Willowgirlieuk]

I was unspoilt for the Body kiss and that totaly knocked me back, i like sat up and was like 'thought they couldn't do that?' and looked around at my brother...they cheak i was infact vidoeing it as i couldn't believe what i had seen!

[minion]

Great topic

The kiss in The Body really knocked me for 6, I was beginning to think that WB would never let them kiss, so to get 4 kisses was incredible, the fact that it showed just how much they love each other and how comforting Tara was just made it a 1000 times better!

SPOILER FOR SEASON 6!

I think the other was Willow casting the forget spell on Tara, I couldn't believe she did that, after everything they went through after Glory brainsucked Tara, for her to mess with her mind again, was just terrible.

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I am in thunderous agreement, oh glittering, glistening Glorificus! : Jinx in Tough Love

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[Dr.G]

Ok can we stop saying spoilers now? These are not spoilers, the episodes have aired, the overseas unspoiled kitties know this board is a spoiler minefield, they proceed at their own risk. The rules are clear.

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[Rane]

ok, mine's really silly compared to all y'alls...

the hug in *Real me*. i was dumbstruck. i was so dumbstruck i actually ended up taping angel over it somehow and since my mum tapes buffy too i called her crying begging her to send me a tape of that episode. she laughed for days about it.

the hug was so simple, so unnexpected so loving and touching. that made me go WOW!

and of course the kisses in *the body*...

[AutumnT]

I vote the flaming O spell because even though I was convinced something was going on between those girls from the time Willow came home from the Doll's Eye all nighter, that was the vindication that I was indeed right. Amazingly the anvil missed so many people's heads...

[Warduke]

If I wouldn't have been spoiled for it, the kiss in The Body without a doubt, that would have knocked me on my butt but since I was spoiled rotten for it.

Being a spoiler ho means that you know everything there is to know about an episode before you actually see it, you know what happens because of the wildfeed and sometimes you even have caps of the ep but there are a few things that get through, that no one saw or noticed, one of these that made me go was in The Body, when Xander is talking and they’re all getting ready to go see Buffy, Willow silently mouths “I love you” to Tara, I couldn’t believe is wasn’t mentioned in the wildfeed, I was floored, we know they’ve said it to each other a million times but it was amazing to hear it (or in this case, see it) for the first time on screen.

[geekgod]

hmmm... let's see.

i did not expect the kiss in 'the body' that was a great surprise.

then when willow snapped at tara at the bronze and the forget spell in 'all the way'.
thatreally pissed me off, i couldn't believe willow would do such things.

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[tommo]

I can't remember a time when I wasn't spoiled. That's really so very sad. But I think watching Willow do her whole "I owe you pain" vibe on Glory really shocked me. And yes, xita and brian, I do remember that Sunday night when we found out what Willow was doing...heh heh, that was fun. But seeing it still made me go "oooh".

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[Puff]

I was unspoiled for Tabula Rasa, so the almost kiss in that left me speachless and of course wanting more.

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[MEow]

The floating in OMWF, with the off-screen, and the floating, and the bedroom eyes, and the floating, and the asking for the, and did i mention the floating......

and the COM.......pleting

:: 'nough drooling ::

Oh, and the fight in the Halloween Ep. with the Willow-shoutage - just had me shaking my head in disappointment - bad Willow

[NoveltyAct]

The kiss in "The Body" for sure--I was unspoiled, and I don't think I had even really started lurking here at the Kitty then; I remember coming home late, so the show had already started, and the first thing I saw, literally, when switching on the TV was the kiss. I was like, "Whatthef--???!!!"

Also, as MEow said, the bedroom-leading-to-floating in OMWF. I (again, literally) was alternately blushing and screaming at the TV, "NO WAY! THEY ARE *SO* NOT SHOWING THAT 8PM ON NETWORK TELEVISION! OH! MY! GOD! (i wish i were either one of those girls right now...)"

Novelty

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[JackieS]

I won't be repeat-o gal and just say ditto to MEow also ummmm, the flaming O spell - i didn't think it would be that, well THAT - WOW

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[Fuzz]

I was so speechless at the bedroom scene in OMWF, and eventhough I was spoiled.After speechless for about 5 minutes later,I was like " Oh mi god ,oh mi god,OH MI GOD!!!This is frickin' totally crazy,they really just did that in-in-in this hour *sob* I finally get to see it,it about time and oh..so beautiful"

But what really left me jaw drop is when Tara said " I am,you know..." ( for this I was like " Hmm?what she's trying to say? ) Then Willow said " What?... " ( Yeah,what? ) THEN TARA SAID " YOURS " and I was blank and then " Oh..Hmm?oh..OHH!!!!Alright!!!ohh*nod*...she did say that,right? "
I was totally not prepare for it and it's just really shivered.I should know where the conversation was leading and I should know what she's trying to say...but that's where I am a dummy

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[jsr]

I don't know if this qualifies -- it was kinda subtle and of course being as dense as I am I didn't even notice it until my gf was like "whoah did you see that."

It was the moment in OMTWF, during the whole "volumey text" exchange, right before Tara says, "yeah this could blow the whole thing wide open." when Tara is totally looking down Willow's dress, checking out her her rack. Hehe.

jill

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[Sassette]

Well, let's see... this kinda' needs some backstory, so let me 'splain. No, is too much... let me sum up.

I always identified with Willow, and had seen Hush, and was making the lesbian jokes in my head, because I had just started suspecting that >I< was gay. During my whole "Am I gay?" time, I wasn't watching the show because I was busy brooding and chain-smoking. Anyway, I just happen to be over at my parents' house when NMR comes on.

So I say to myself, "Self... Oz is back, which is kinda' disappointing, because Tara is really cute, but oh well ... 'cuz there's no way Willow was going to 'go gay' just as you're figuring it out, because that would be Too Weird."

And then Joss Whedon gave us the Extra Flamey Candle scene, and I was TOTALLY floored.

Other than that, the scene in Restless where they're in the ice-cream truck, and they're moving in for a Big Dirty-Hot Kiss and they cut away? That had me yelling at the TV.

-Sass

[kitten scout]

The biggest surprise for me was during The Body - the first Big Kiss. I was taping the episode, of course, and the phone rang. When I finally got off the phone, I walked by the TV and the "KISS" was happening. I just about feel over! I thought, "thank goodness I've got it on tape!"

[delany]

well i'm a relative dumbass so i never picked up all the little bits in season4, wasn't until the flaming O that i went
"hang on, i didn't know spells invlove orgasms..wait a sec.. they're.. they're.. holy sweet bubba jebus!!!"

yes i know sad..
but the scene that first made me wanna doggy my tv screen (excuse the language) was xanders dream in "restless". just seeing the look on his face i was like, "mmhmm.. i hear ya.."

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[eekiboo]

1. when Willow asked Tara to dance with her (Family) and saying "See, that's where you're a dummy. I think about what you grew up with and then I look at what you are... it makes me proud, it makes me love you more."

2. "I am you know".. "what?".. "yours..."
(WAY)

3. "You have to be with the person you love..." "I am..." "you mean?" "I mean, ok?" "Oh yes!" (NMR)

total GASPING ensued! 'nuff said. peace!

[Willowlicious]

Well, seeing how I've watched all of Seasons 1-6 the last couple of months and had the Watcher's Guides and the Kitten Board feeding my nasty spoiler habit the whole time, not a lot has shocked me about W/T relationship. I kind of read about each episode in one form or another before I saw it.

That said, I guess I didn't expect to care so much about their relationship. I had no idea the writing would be so good and the performances so detailed and real. The emotional resonance of the whole thing was very unexpected.

As for one scene that made both me and my g/f drop our jaws to the floor, it would have to be the floating Tara/oral sex scene in OMWF. I was amazed that a scene that really shows nothing (barely any onscreen physical contact) could show EVERYTHING so fully and beautifully. Wow. It made a Buffy and W/T convert of my g/f.

[Spell Gal]

I would have to say in 'Family' when Tara climbs into bed with Willow.

My friends had all kept me in the dark about that little gem, so I was truly surprised and elated! And that it followed the gentle teasing between them made it even better.

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