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Date Posted: 18:03:38 08/03/05 Wed
Author: MTsFan
Author Host/IP: 205.175.225.24
Subject: Dawn was written to act younger
In reply to: Kashmanik 's message, "Would Dawn have been a better character if she'd been younger?" on 17:08:03 08/03/05 Wed

and, yes, her wardrobe was scaled younger than 14-15, too. I think she had to be old enough to grasp the concept of the Key without blowing it off. It had to have more of an impact on her than a young child would be able to feel. Young teen are self-conscious enough to be impacted by the realization that they're different. 8-9's, not so much. She also had to have trouble dealing with it in season 5. She couldn't be much older or she would have had a mature reaction to being supernatural.

I am really glad she had a chance to grow up in season 7. I am also on record as saying that should have happened in season 6 while there was still time to make the character acceptable for a spinoff.

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[> Re: Would Dawn have been a better character if she'd been younger? -- silveragent, 18:44:51 08/03/05 Wed [1] (63.199.111.93)

Dawn was basically the ordinary girl replacement for Uber-Willow. If anything she should have been OLDER, or MT been allowed to act her age instead of older.

Willow had always been the: 1. sounding board for Buffy; 2. ordinary girl made more confident being Buffy's pal/ally; 3. the ordinary girl alternative to Buffy as well.

By S4's end, Willow was not ordinary in any way. Thus, you had to have a character like Dawn (just as the show only worked with Giles as the hub connecting the spoke-like characters). So Dawn was needed.

She should have been allowed to grow up, too soon and too fast, in S6, as a real-life as opposed to supernatural consequence of Buffy shucking her responsibilities. Even better if Dawn/Buffy had a reversal, where Dawn was the responsible/mature one at age 16 and Buffy the irresponsible one.


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[> [> I wished that Connor was Buffy's brother and Dawn was Angel's daughter. -- Christian, 20:14:16 08/03/05 Wed [1] (209.240.205.62)

That would have been something to see.


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[> [> No she wasn't -- Eurydice, 20:36:48 08/03/05 Wed [1] (141.154.23.82)

She was brought in so Buffy would have somebody to be responsible for. Nothing shakes you out of self-centered childhood like having somebody depend on you, although Buffy sure put up a good fight. And Dawn never performed any of the duties of "ordinary girl" Willow - she was never a sounding board or a confidante or a friend - she was always Buffy's little sister who needed to be protected, which was the whole point about chloroforming her and sending her away with Xander in End of Days.


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