I agree with you for seasons 4 and 5. She did grow on me in season 6. I think her romantic problems with Willow and finally showing real human interaction with another character besides Willow, through her growing friendship with Buffy, kind of made her finally a little more than two-dimensional.

no, she is my fave character. why don't you like her :^(

I just said why I don't like her. So why is she your favorite, out of curiosity?

i like the under your skin pun cinders :)

i love tara she's so timid and sweet, but yet shes not bland she more
mysterious
infact we know really nothing about her until family

why do you say she was not a challenge for her? does every relationship have to be a challenge? they're just so content with one another

she's not one of my favorite characters but i do love her

I really liked Tara, and her relationship with Willow too (until Willow messed up). I think that things may have seemed slow starting off, but I think that was intentional. She was insecure, and also hiding from her own fears... in a way, kind of a wallflower. When you're not sure of yourself, you don't tend to be too outgoing, and kind of just hang in the back. That didn't mean that there wasn't a special person waiting to offer of herself given the chance. I thought Amber was sincere, and did a wonderul job at portraying Tara.
I personally disliked Kennedy more. I thought that she just took advantage of Willow. There wasn't really any character development to show why Willow would even have given in to her. The only thing that showed, was the fact that Willow was vulnerable after losing Tara.

yeah i think also bringing her more out of her shell was very intentional in s6 too as she sings in omwf "i lived my life in shadow" which implies along with what she talks about in the body and family that she hasn't really had much of a life until she meet willow which makes it all the more tragic that she dies when she has finally found herself

i have to say i agree with you cinders, also wiht the song cuz i love that song! i can see where everyon is coming from its just she still comes off as bland to me, and yer they start to show us aspects of her but it was never really enough!

tara was sweet. she was a girl who noone seemed to care about until she met willow. with willow's help she was coming out of her shell. she sort of reminded me of myself. strong but very timid and nervous about things.