Marti Noxon: Parts of Buffy the Vampire Slayer "hold up really well, and other parts are a little rickety!"

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"There were parts of season six where I feel we went too far," says Noxon, the former Buffy writer-producer who's now overseeing Dietland and Sharp Objects. "We pushed into some categories that almost felt sadistic and that Buffy was volunteering for things that were beyond just 'bad choices' and were almost irresponsible for the character." Noxon also expressed regret for killing Amber Benson's Tara. "I think that killing Tara was – in retrospect, of all the people, did she have to die?”