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Originally Posted by Jyqm
Before "Wrecked," Willow's arc was really going somewhere interesting. Her increasing use of and dependency on magic was shown as being indicative of her exploring the darker parts of her nature, becoming obsessed with her newfound power and confidence (two things she never had much earlier in the show), and becoming increasingly averse to dealing with problems in her life in a normal way. Then suddenly it was as though the writers decided that was all just too subtle and complex for them, and in the span of a single episode, they completely changed her character arc and turned her into this helpless junkie, then proceeded to make the whole plotline as heavy-handed as possible.
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I'm with you here. The thing is, and as you say, they couldn't leave Willow that way, they had to bring her back to the "center" of the group which she always was in the beginning and throughout most of the series. She's the anchor of the show and, and so they couldn't let her delve too darkly into the "black arts" and keep her there. You're right, they could have handled this a bit differently, they could have nuanced her character as kind of a bad-ass magician without having her deep-end that way.