Interesting site with a ton of little Buffy factoids and would-have-beens, including this interesting little lost plotline about Tara that I hadn't heard: [SPOILER, if it is in fact possible to spoil the never-attempted plotlines of a show that's been off-the-air for two sad, long years now] The original plan for season seven was to have the First Evil inhabit the form of Tara to torment the Scoobies over the first half of the season, culminating in a Buffy-is-granted-one-wish-and-uses-it-to-bring-Tara-back-to-life episode three from the bottom. Now, Season Seven of Buffy is wildly, famously incoherent, and the writers clearly changed directions a few times in mid-season and never really got their plotline going in the first place. So it's possible that this was actually the plan at one point -- and it would have been an emotionally satisfying ending for that storyline, if a little strangely happy for the Buffyverse -- but a big part of me thinks that Joss is only saying this now because Buffy's over and he wants to throw a bone to the fans who turned on the show after that one thing that happened in Season Six.