Alyson Hannigan thinks Willow should have dated Buffy

Buffy the Vampire SlayerAlyson Hannigan’s fourth season saw Alyson Hannigan’s Willow Rosenberg tap into new depths of her burgeoning magical abilities and begin to grow into a queer young woman. But looking back on the beloved series, Hannigan now thinks his character should have fallen in love with someone else.

This week, Hannigan took his Twitter flow to suggest another story from Buffy in which Willow ended up dating the titular killer rather than Amber Benson’s Tara Maclay. You know the witch she finally ended up with for a while before Tara was unceremoniously murdered, a moment that would eventually lead Willow to turn to dark magic. Fun!

While Buffy never dated women Buffy TV series, she ended up dating Satsu, another killer activated by the events of the last TV season, in the canonical Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight comic series, where it describes itself as “going through a phase”. In Hannigan’s mind, Buffy would have dated Willow after the whole deal with Tara:

With plans for a Buffy restart in the works, the show’s new creation team is undoubtedly thinking about ways to make their take on the Slayer story unique and definitive, and one of the easiest ways to do that is to develop the cast of the series with an even more diverse range of characters. The original Buffy the Vampire Slayer was already very strange for the time, but the franchise could and should rely more on fans’ desire for more robust queer representation in the future.

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