tough love

[Happy57]

In this episode we see Glory draining Tara's brain, turning Tara insane.
After Tara is out of the hospital and with Willow and Buffy and Dawn we see Willow giving Tara something to eat and Dawn askes if she can help and takes the spoon and starts feeding Tara some jogurt.
Why in this scene doesnot Tara recognizes Dawn as the key:a ball of pure energy, but only afther when Glory breaks in thru the window.

[Wiccaness]

hmmm...thats a good question...the only answers i can come with are
a) She wasnt thinking of the key till that moment, or she recognized Glory as a god, a god she, as an insane person, worshiped and felt it was her duty to say that was the key or she just knew it and didnt care till glory happened

or
b) When glory breaks the window and wall, all this lights comes though and it makes dawn shinier, for Tara so see.


not the best answers lol sorry, but its all i got at the moment.

[Rowan Hawthorn]

Everything that the "crazies" saw or said was erratic and random. I figure it was because of the way the breakdown between the worlds was occurring - notice that Glory/Ben's connection was also ebbing and waning, as well as the Scoobies' memory of them, as the spell that surrounded them grew weaker.

[Joyce Summers]

Yeah, the other crazy people saw Dawn for what she was when that reality ebbed away from them. And more prominent example is Joyce in Listening to Fear where she suddenly demands 'what are you? get away from me. you're a shadow'. but once Dawn runs off she switches back and is like 'honey what's wrong?'. So it's not like they constantly see her as the key.
Tara seeing the reality just as Glory turned up was unfortunate Buffywold Joss-esque bad timing

[faith oracle]

i think this episode should have been called "tough luck" instead of "tough love".do the math.its just like tripping over your own feet,she gives the game away at the worst time.

[Buffy obsessed fan]

Basically, I think it's just so that Glory knows, I mean, if she'd of said earlier, she wouldn't have said it again. But, I guess when Dawn was feeding her, she wasn't really looking at her, but that's a pretty crappy answer.