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Date Posted: 22:54:32 08/03/05 Wed
Author: Eurydice
Author Host/IP: 141.154.23.82
Subject: Well, if he resurrected Dawn, then she'd just be back again ;-)
In reply to: Christian 's message, "Which begs the question "why didn't he kill her off in season 5"?" on 22:10:37 08/03/05 Wed

That would have been another way to take the story - to have Buffy follow Giles' judgement and let Dawn die for the greater good. Then Buffy would have been depressed and felt guilty, and resented Giles and the whole Watcher/Slayer culture, and been angry and who knows what. Or more likely, she'd have gone catatonic and never come out of it. I wonder what that would have done for Buffy's likability ratings...heroes don't look so heroic if they're willing to let their baby sisters die.

Or maybe Glory or the knights could have killed Dawn, but since Buffy was ready to kick the crap out of them for even threatening Dawn, I don't think there'd have been any more story mileage out of having her dead.

But I think the main reason for Dawn not dying in season 5 is that her job as "the burden of adult responsibility" didn't really start until season 6. Before that, she was the Key and the target of the Big Bad, which was more about Buffy's responsibility as a Slayer rather than a sister/mom. I don't think there's a problem with a character representing a concept like that, I just think the character should be written as a 3-dimensional person at the same time - for me, they didn't do that with Dawn.

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[> [> [> [> Very true! -- Christian, 08:06:23 08/04/05 Thu [1] (209.240.205.62)


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