NeonSlayer
Potential
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- Jul 26, 2018
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A lot think Dawn got so much better in s7 but there were many times she was still being ridiculous.
In Potential when she thinks she's one of the Potentials she takes off alone in the middle of the night without anyone knowing where she's going. How is that different from Annabelle? She's lucky a Turok-han didn't kill her too. And she knows her death would hurt Buffy more than anyone else's which would make it harder for Buffy to train & lead the girls. And they'd think "Buffy couldn't even keep her sister alive".
We're supposed to feel sorry for Dawn that she's not a Potential. She is living with girls her age who are all orphaned or separated from families they can't ever return to and aren't allowed to go to school or leave the house because they are being hunted throughout the planet, their entire race being exterminated. It's like being jealous of Anne Frank or Katniss Everdeen. Wiping out the Slayer line was a genocide and being a Slayer is trying to survive as tribute in a Rated R for Violence hunger games.
Xander shouldn't of had her thinking of it as the Potentials getting to win a beauty pageant. He should've reminded her that in s5 she was in a similar situation, an army of men (Byzantium knights v Bringers) wanting to murder her just because she exists (The Key v Potentials), constant worry that she might be kidnapped or killed by a powerful entity (Glory v First Evil).
In Beneath You everyone praises Dawn for threatening to set Spike on fire but what about seconds before that? She made Buffy feel bad about herself. Buffy was not being secretive and it wasn't like s3 when she was slipping away every day to spend hours with Angel behind everyone's back (not that I blame her for that). She ran into Spike one time for a couple of minutes. Dawn's snide comment that Buffy only lets them in when it's convenient was out of line and ignored how much Buffy had been trying since late s6 to open up more. And when Buffy does keep things to herself it's out of trauma (unable to talk because it affects her so deeply) and not devaluing those around her. In Lessons Buffy thought Spike was one of the semi-corporeal vengeful spirits and she had good reason to think that. Then in Sleeper Dawn proved to be a hypocrite since she didn't tell Buffy or anyone else what FEJoyce told her.
In Potential when she thinks she's one of the Potentials she takes off alone in the middle of the night without anyone knowing where she's going. How is that different from Annabelle? She's lucky a Turok-han didn't kill her too. And she knows her death would hurt Buffy more than anyone else's which would make it harder for Buffy to train & lead the girls. And they'd think "Buffy couldn't even keep her sister alive".
We're supposed to feel sorry for Dawn that she's not a Potential. She is living with girls her age who are all orphaned or separated from families they can't ever return to and aren't allowed to go to school or leave the house because they are being hunted throughout the planet, their entire race being exterminated. It's like being jealous of Anne Frank or Katniss Everdeen. Wiping out the Slayer line was a genocide and being a Slayer is trying to survive as tribute in a Rated R for Violence hunger games.
Xander shouldn't of had her thinking of it as the Potentials getting to win a beauty pageant. He should've reminded her that in s5 she was in a similar situation, an army of men (Byzantium knights v Bringers) wanting to murder her just because she exists (The Key v Potentials), constant worry that she might be kidnapped or killed by a powerful entity (Glory v First Evil).
In Beneath You everyone praises Dawn for threatening to set Spike on fire but what about seconds before that? She made Buffy feel bad about herself. Buffy was not being secretive and it wasn't like s3 when she was slipping away every day to spend hours with Angel behind everyone's back (not that I blame her for that). She ran into Spike one time for a couple of minutes. Dawn's snide comment that Buffy only lets them in when it's convenient was out of line and ignored how much Buffy had been trying since late s6 to open up more. And when Buffy does keep things to herself it's out of trauma (unable to talk because it affects her so deeply) and not devaluing those around her. In Lessons Buffy thought Spike was one of the semi-corporeal vengeful spirits and she had good reason to think that. Then in Sleeper Dawn proved to be a hypocrite since she didn't tell Buffy or anyone else what FEJoyce told her.