This. Being dead on Buffy or Angel did not prevent appearing again via resurrection, much less flashbacks.
Maybe she’d grown attached to the character. Amber Benson refused to appear as Tara-as-the-First Evil, as well.
My question: why would someone steal my entire collection of Buffy and Angel DVDs, and what should I do with them if I ever find out who they are?
As **Skald **points out, staking is no barrier to the continuation of the character.
She didn’t want the character killed off. I have no idea why she cares.
Interesting. Surely the character could still be killed off, albeit offscreen or with a double, with or without her cooperation. Two lines of dialogue should do it
Depending on your mood, turn them into a hamster or flay them alive.
So what’s with the cheese guy?
More importantly, why is the Master the only vampire with a skeleton ?
As for Dru, the question was resolved in two issues of the Angel comic book (written by Juliet Landau and canon because of Joss Wheedon’s blessing).
Amy was a rat, not a hamster.
Yeah, but hamster is funnier.
HAMSTER, HAMSTER, HAMSTER!
See?
Amy is back as a Bad Person in Season Eight.
The theory is that Willow screwed up the de-ratting spell, and what came back wasn’t Amy, but was, instead, Amy’s mother (who had possessed Amy’s body once before).
This would explain how Amy became the late-seasons baddie, instead of the sweet girl of season 2.
Why, yes, I do have a major letch for Elizabeth Anne Allen, especially in “Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered”. Why do you ask?
It makes pretty much no sense to try to say it was her mother. Amy’s mother was pretty clearly shown to be in the cheerleading statue at the end of the episode she was introduced in, and then referenced further in a throwaway line about the statue’s eyes following Oz.
So, what happened?
God I loved Dru.
And that resolution was…???
You write that as if you should be ashamed of having such good taste. 
Didn’t Drusilla return to Mexico? I thought she stole the windshield darkened Lincoln for a return trip south.
I may be wrong.
As for the Master, I always liked to assume he was a couple of thousand of years old and was Caligula before becoming a vampire! (There is nothing to support this in the show, I just liked the idea!)
She was kept in a psychiatric hospital and tested (apparently for an unknown ulterior purpose) until she escaped and murdered the whole staff. It’s all in issues # 24 and 25.
Well, according to Whedon, among all the symbolism and foreshadowing of that episode, the cheese guy was just something completely random he threw in for the lulz.
But of course, he’s only the writer, so what the fuck does he know ?
I was always under the impression that Amy turned into a baddie because she spent so much time as a rat, for several reasons:
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I’m sure rats don’t have any sort of real moral code. Much like Faith, it’s “want, take, have” and Amy’s been doing things that way for almost three seasons.
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When Amy got ratted (ratified?) during the witch hunt, she - along with Willow and Buffy - was seeing townspeople who had previously seemed like ordinary folks, but they were acting monstrously. Coupled with the sad situation between Amy and her mother in Season 1, she’s probably got some kind of PTSD going on.
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Three years. Amy missed out on so many things that were important to her (prom’s over, crush is dead, school was blown up) and she feels very alienated after becoming human again, THEN she finds that Willow has made vast improvements and is a pretty powerful spellcaster. If I were Amy, my first line of thought would be “Why didn’t you turn me back sooner?”
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Magic crack makes you act like a crackhead.
