Get Out! Get Out! Get Out!

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I've tried to be understanding if Dawn but I just don't like her character that much. I did like her in Potential though, and her scene with Tara in Flooded:

DAWN: Right, fifteen. As in *teen*ager. You know, if you don't let me look at the pictures, I'm gonna learn everything I know about demons on the street.

Tara sighs, hands her a book.

TARA: Knock yourself out.
DAWN: Thank you. See? (sits) No biggie. I can totally handle it.

She opens the book and checks out the first page.

DAWN: That's a weird place for a horn.

She looks again, slowly closes the book.

DAWN: (quietly) That's not a horn.
 
That last line was priceless, I laughed so hard. It was my headline on MySpace for a week or so.
 
I dream of whipping Dawn off the edge of the platform and into the portal every night. That would have been MY gift to the WORLD.
 
When she yells her voice goes really weird.

And plus she was the most bratty character ever.

They could've brought Michelle in as a villain.

'Evil Brat Monster of Torment'
 
i don't mind Dawn in season 5 - at least she had a point! being the key she was an important plot device and she provided the impetus for very important character growth of both buffy and spike - but this purpose is largely lost in the last two seasons so its seasons 6 and 7 where she is really annoying. i think she should have died in the Gift, with Buffy. then buffy could have been extra, extra dark in season 6.
 
I have mixed feelings when it comes to Dawn. On one hand she had a purpose/plot to the entire season. Yet, on the other hand she no character development what so ever. I think that was what made Dawn the most annoying thing about Season 5. The fact that she never developed as someone other than being the slayers sister. She didn't even really have her moments. It was always"my sisters the slayer, she'll kick your ass". Yada, yada. Even in the episodes leading up to the finale, Dawn never matured, at all.

You would think that with the episode "potential" Dawn would've gotten a little maturity.....but, no. never happend.

Hopefully Joss will her character something to do in the comics, other than just being "Buffy's sister" or "ex-ball of green energy"
 
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i am probably the only person who is not bothered by dawn's screaming of this phrase. i think dawn is awesome (check the avatar 🙂), and the times when she's not are when she's not supposed to be, so that she comes off as an annoying little sister. i do agree, however, that she did not get enough things to do after 'the gift'. then again, by the time season 7 came around, a lot of other people got neglected too.
 
Well, I can see where she is coming from when she is screaming "get out get out get out.", lets put it this way if you were told that you weren't real and that all your memories were fake and you were a ball of energy i'm sure you wouldn't want to sit around and give everyone a hug and have a tea party.. that's just not how its going to go...

and normally when girls or most girls are crying/upset/angry their voices get really high and squeak it's just how it goes if you listen. You don't really have control of your vocal cords when you're that upset.
 
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Well said.
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In a family like Xander's, this kind of impassioned quarrel would tend to seem more like a routine event than an incident that evokes any kind of shock And my family, growing up, was more like Xander's than like Buffy's in this respect. Surely the worst example is my brother who is ten years younger than me; he has tended to be a brat with an anger problem. There have been many times when he acted much worse, with far less of a provocation.

The typical fan reaction to Dawn's brattiness seems to consist of finding it surprising that she acts that bratty. But these kinds of impassioned quarrels were as typical an occurrence in my family growing up as they are in Xander's family, rather than some kind of rare event. Therefore, I tend to feel that Dawn would have been only average if she'd lived in my family growing up, and so I'm not bothered by things like that.
 
I really don't like the way she screams but she's a teenager, there's pain, the feeling of being lost. I feel sorry for her because Buffy wasn't there for her when Joyce died. She was busy in finding herself.
 
eunsoma said:
Oh my god I am re-watching season 5 at the current time and I just want to point out, how annoying was Dawn and her little tantrums.
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OMG So know what you mean, I would have had to smack her in the face constantly until she shut the 'Bleep' up lol
 
i can belive so many people feel this way about dawn !!
i love Blood ties and i love the get out, get out, get out part
i think shes acts so well in that ep and never even thort of it as annoying before
i cant belive so many people think that if you found out that you were a ball of energy and only been alive for 6 mouths and had all fake memorys of your whole 'live' you would just carry on your live as normal and be kool as a cucumber and not freak out, in all honesty i think anyone one of us would go a little crazy no matter what our age was.
c'mon, SOMONE must agree !!
 
I actually quite like Dawn. I am watching Season 5 through just now and have just got to Blood Ties (athough I have seen te rest of the season in bits before). I thought that the "Get Out, Get Out, GET OUT!!!" line was done quite well actually. It seemed realistic to me, and considering the circumstances (remember, its only been hours since she found out) it was appropriate.
 
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yah i agree, dawn in season 5- she is really quite annoying! Get OUT GET OUT GET OUT! thats reeeeallly annoying! I like dawn but i hate her little tantrums!
 
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