Your first impression of Dawn

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If you can all think back to when you watched the fifth season for the first time and watching the end of 'Buffy Vs Dracula' when Dawn is in the house and Joyce says to take her sister out and they both shout out "Mom!". Did you think like me and go 'What the hell is going on?! Buffy doesn't have a sister!" What were your first theories on what was happening?
 
i wasn't spoiled for this one - if i remember correctly i looked at my husband and said "what the?" I hoped it wasn't a case of Buffy 'jumping the shark' and intorducing a cute kid character to try and catch a younger audience. i was dubious. Dawn's introduction sent me to that new fangled contraption called the "Internet" looking for clues and spoilers as to what was going on. Nothing in Buffy was ever unspoilt for me ever again.
 
i thought that maybe Buffy had a sister who had gone 2 boarding school or something, cause at that stage, i hadn't seen the 2 or 3 seasons. But then i thought that maybe having her blood sucked made her delirious or something...
 
I started out watching Buffy in reruns on FX, so I had seen her before. Actually, when the series ran through and started over again, I was confused as to where the little pest was.
 
I knew she was coming and thought it was some dumb ratings-booster thing, so I was prepared to hate S5. But then it wasn't too bad. And by S7 Dawn stopped annoying me to the point that I wanted to punch her in the face.
 
My first impressions were probably just like everyone else... "What the *censored*?!"

I was just so confused...
 
Well, I saw season 6 before 5 - Yes, I'm weird - so I already knew she would come, though if I hadn't seen it I would have been really confused. I was confused enough seeing her in season 6, after I'd only seen season 3, but I realised who she was, so by the time I saw season 5 I wasn't that shocked.
 
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My first impression was...uuuh they don't look like sisters at all!! Then I was...ow I have to rewatch the other seasons to see a hint. I didn't doubt that they were sisters, only I didn't like them being such. But that's understandable cause I haven't seen much of the previous seasons and I knew she lived in LA before so I concluded the sis lived with her father.

Now Dawn is one of my fav characters of the series, I really love her despite of her annoying scenes 🙂
 
I thought Buff or Joyce was dreaming. By the next episode, I was thinking this is a long dream. Then I swtched to the theory that it's a hallucinating spell and Dawn was an evil dwarf. Well, she did write some coy, mysterious stuff in her diary.
 
I knew she was coming but I just didn't know how!! My first reaction was "Dear God she is annoying!!" and my second was " I distinctly remember Joyce calling Buffy an only child in 'Faith, Hope and Trick'"...so mostly I was trying to figure out how I missed her!!!
 
I thought i had missed an episode, I was like what the heck, o watched it yesterday didnt i? and i also thought that Dawn was Buffys sister or stepsister and had been staying with there dad


i had to wait till they showed the episode again to finally figure out a little better what was going on.
 
Keanoite said:
I distinctly remember Joyce calling Buffy an only child in 'Faith, Hope and Trick'"...
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I think that was why Joss put that in, so any people as obsessed with Buffy as most of us 😛 Would pick that up and be totally confused.
 
Even in Buffy VS Dracula there is a reference to Buffy being an only child.

JOYCE: Right, of course. You know, I'm gonna have to get used to this place without you again. It gets so quiet.
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Joss just wanted to confuse all the fans. I'm sure that's it. Although the first time I saw the ep, I thought it was some sister that just came back from living with her dad. I mean the bedroom did look kinda messy in that last scene. Like there was some unpacking being done.
 
Yeah, there were so many references from season three onwards pointing out how much Buffy was an only child. Like you guys said there was Joyce saying 'its a good job you were an only child' and then in Living Conditions Giles is like 'its hard learning to share especially for an only child such as yourself' and then how Joyce was gonna be all lonely again when Buffy went back to college.
But yeah, when I first saw Dawn I was like 'mnyehuhuh???!!!!' and then it was quickly followed by 'she's evil. okay her diary entires are amusing ('i asked mom if she'd let Tara and Willow teach me some of the things they do together then she went quiet and told me to go to my room. huh. i guess her generation isn't cool with witchcraft') but she's still evil! evil!'. Then when Joyce started getting ill and was all 'who are you?' i began to think 'she's evil *and* she's trying to kill Joyce! Get her Buffy! Get her!'. Then when it all got revealed what she really was, I sorta mellowed out, haha, and became all sympatheric for Dawn...even though she did bug the hell out of me in the fifth and sixth season. Though I think she was supposed to...you know in that whole 'shes the annoying little sister' thing. But season 7 I liked it. she was all getting a personality and such. hehe.
 
I still maintain she's evil! Throwing Buffy out proved it for me!
 
Ah, true. good point wise one, hehe I'd almost forgotten about that. How could she throw her own sister out after everything she'd done for her? What happened to this whole blood ties thing huh, huh?
 
Apparently Buffy was the only one keeping up here end of the deal
 
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