Dawn?

I've just thought.. I was probably around the same age as Dawn was portrayed as when season 5 came out, so I can understand why people find her so irritating.. it's a teenager's prerogative!
 
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Edmund Blackadder
thats purgative:)
so I can understand why people find her so irritating.. it's a teenager's prerogative!
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Exactly!

Didn't Anya and Xander basically say the same thing in Older and Far Away

Anya: I think she's posessed
Xander: She's a teenager.

It's *just* the way it goes. And Dawn was no exception. Plus Dawn was technically a newborn so double the attention-seeking curiosity and pesterness.
 
i dunno, some of her tantrums seemed that of a 10 year old, not a 14 year old. and i thik thats what bugged me a bit, that she acted a little TOO young sometimes. because at 14, i was over tantrums and more into the ignoring what my parents said stage, and the rolling of the eyes (which Dawn got that down lol).

I still don't like her, and prob never will, but she is bearable in season 7.
 
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Joyce Summers
But she was a newborn- barely six months old when she finds our she's the key. So that's why she acts younger than a 14 year old sometimes- because she is. She hadn't developed in the same way other children have by the time they're fourteen
Well, season 5 sort of revolved around dawn, so I can't really imagine that season without her....although I did find Dawn sort of annoying, but I got used to her🙂 She is just a teenager and some of her behavior is just typical. I can understand a lot.
 
When I first watched Season 5, I HATED Dawn. I thought she was so annoying, and like LMLTF said, I sometimes thought some of her tantrums are that of a 10 year old. However, the circumstances were definately different for her, especially when she found out she was the Key and all. She was a teenager and a little sister. I mean, how many little sisters aren't annoying?

And, she was what Season 5 was all about. She needed to be there. I agree with a previous poster; however much she annoyed me, I wouldn't have it any other way.

Anyway, once I rewatched the season, she grew on me, like other posters have said. Honestly, I don't think I'll ever particularly like her as a character, especially in that season, though I didn't mind her in Season 7. But, she's necessary, she provides a lot and is great for some of the other characters, developing them a lot. The most obvious example is Buffy,but there was a lot of impact on Spike and some of the other characters too.

And, again like others have mentioned, it's great for Buffy to have some real family after Joyce dies, and Dawn does a lot for the episode 'The Body'.
 
I loved Dawn. I just watched Blood Ties and I have to say, trachtenberg did an amazing job. Dawn had such tragedy in her life, you have to give her a little room to wiggle. I guess it's because I was 14 when she came on in season 5 so I was in her shoes the whole time. I understood her through her entire run.
 
you know initially i hated dawn but now......... i still hate her


my oppinion is the worst things you can do to a show

1. rewrite history
2. time travel
3. skip a couple of years and pick back up with no explanation of what happened

josh wanted season 5 to be about family but i still think he could have found a better way to do it
 
I thought the idea of the character was really cool, and the fact that everything I'd just watched (discovered the show on DVD) had been altered was, though a bit annoying, different, and so I gave it a chance. I never really liked Dawn that much, because she was so annoying. I totally understand that the character had to be that way though. Dunno if it was the performance or the character itself that I didn't like, but there was something. Although, Dawn did see to get a lot more tolerable, at least to me, in season seven. Maybe because season five was so much about her, all her annoying qualities, combined with the suddenness and frequency of her presence, made her seem much worse than when she wasn't as big a player in the later seasons, or maybe the character just matured a bit. I'd have to go back and rewatch to decide.
 
I disliked her quite a bit. I understand the need to have her as irritating because she's a younger sister, that's what they're supposed to do, but sometimes her logic was jt downright retarded and selfish. Example: Older and Far Away, she's all upset cos no-one will spend time with her, even though she KNOWS everyone's got their own stuff to deal with, Xander and Anya has wedding plans, Willow was on her cold turkey program, Buffy had Slayer duties AND work...it's like, even when I was fourteen, I would have know that all that stuff was too important, I would have UNDERSTOOD. Not thrown a wobbler just because nobody was around. Ergh, I'm done. 🙂
 
Actually, the introduction of Dawn was THE biggest 'HUH?' moment in television for me. Ever. So I loved it all.
 
In my opinion I hated dawn, i think she ruined the show because she was always the one getting into trouble or doing things wrong and always moaning! the show was a lot fun without her anyone else agree?
 
Aiysha said:
In my opinion I hated dawn, i think she ruined the show because she was always the one getting into trouble or doing things wrong and always moaning! the show was a lot fun without her anyone else agree?
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To be honest i have to completely disagree! I would never say any character ruined the show..the show was so succesful partially because of how the characters all meshed so well together. Dawn allowed many teenage viewers to connect with the show easier. The thought that no one cares, or no one's listening is portrayed extremely well through Dawns character.

If you haven't guessed by now i quite like Dawn. The first time i watched it she did bug me...but then i rewatched it and saw a different side to the whiney lil trouble maker...and i connected. I mean come on...she lost her mum, then her sister and then Tara (who was sort like a surrogate mother) so i think she deserves to be a little whiney!
 
There were times in which I hated Dawn and times in which I loved her. She was a necessary character for season five, which is part of what stopped me hating her when she first came into it, and actually had some pretty decent scenes. And when it comes to people thinking she's bratty, well her sister kind of the slayer, kind of getting more attention? She just acts as any teenager would. (Not that I'm calling myself a brat. 😉). But, yes, Dawn to me wasn't my favourite character but I didn't hate her either. I felt very sorry for her in season seven though, she was so pushed out with all the potentials there.
 
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you know initially i hated dawn but now......... i still hate her


my oppinion is the worst things you can do to a show

1. rewrite history
2. time travel
3. skip a couple of years and pick back up with no explanation of what happened

josh wanted season 5 to be about family but i still think he could have found a better way to do it
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i agree, you know what they should have done killed dawn off instead of buffy because then i bet it would of gone back to how it was before she came along.
 
I really like Dawn.

I remember when I was watching the show as it aired I got pretty fed up with her. However, now that I've seen the series over and over again I've grown to appreciate the character.

I think people always forget Dawn's incredible maturity and selflessness in 'The Gift' at the mere age of 14. Not only did she make peace with the fact she had to jump to save the world (much quicker than Buffy could I might add) she also went to jump before Buffy catches her and shoves her back. Buffy is the one who always gets praised for sacrificing herself in that episode (and she should it was amazing) but Dawn should also get some praise for attempting to do it also.

And Dawn had to deal with a lot, Buffy was hardly there for her in season six due to her own problems at home and Dawn wasn't actually wrong in "˜Dead Things' when she says that Buffy never wanted to come back and that she was going to jail to escape her life- which included escaping Dawn. I mean poor Dawn, it must have been so hard for her to know Buffy didn't really want to be there with her after how happy Dawn was to have her alive again.

I really love Dawn in season eight as well. She's handled her problems with great maturity and has used all her disadvantages to help others around her.

She's an amazing character.
 
I love Dawn, I think shes a great addition to the show. yet i hate the concept of her because that means seasons 1-4 hapend differently in the minds of everyone else. so the connection made with the individual charechters where broken since those moments we loved might never of happend in their minds on happend differently. it would of worked out better if they said she'd been there forever but she was living with buffys father in L.A since it was only buffy who had to move due to been kicked out of school.
 
I love to hate Dawn... It is so easy to dislike her and for that I think she did add intrinsic value. She served the purpose of giving Buffy a family link once Joyce was gone and forcing the "grow-up" that was required for seasons 5-7. I also think she was necessary to keep the scoobies together during the summer after The Gift.
 
When the writers first introduced her, I was like "Huh?! How the hell are they going to pull this off?" But it actually worked, and yes, even though Michelle Trachtenberg's screaming (the get out Get Out GET OUT thing REALLY made me wish Buffy would have knocked her teeth down her throat) and whining in some scenes got on my nerves, I have a little sister who used to act like her sometimes so I got what they were going for. After Season 5, Dawn grew on me and in Season 7 I actually liked her. 🙂 I've always loved Michelle Trachtenberg as an actress, but it wasn't till Season 7 that I liked the character of Dawn. Xander's speech to her in "Potential" sealed it for me, too.
 
I liked Dawn from the beginning. I understood her, particularly in Season 6. I felt sorry for her, and thought she added a lot to the show. Season 7 Dawn was fantastic, funny, mature and capable, but then it all changed. That damn episode where they turn on Buffy, and ask her to leave. Ahh. I no longer liked Dawn. I really felt that should have been Dawn's defining moment. Where she stands up for her sister. Sadly no. That episode really made me dis-like her. Shame. 🙁
 
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