Well Dawn made the list...

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21 Most Annoying TV Characters Ever


I never got what people found annoying about Dawn in season 5 really, I thought that Real Me was an awesome intro for her character, but I've seen so many people talking about not being able to stand her from the beginning. Honestly I think that some people just hated the whole concept of a 'cute younger character' being added, they were coming at the idea from what they'd seen in other tv shows, and so were already predisposed to find Dawn annoying?

Hmm how would people have corrected the writing of Dawn if you were working on the show, or did you think it was fine just the way it was? I might have changed her age and made her more obviously younger, instead of 14/15/16 over the course of the show. I always thought that was waaay to close to the age that Buffy had been at the start of the series to then make such a big deal about how young Dawn was and how she needed babysitting. If they wanted to write her as such a little sister then I think it would have been a better idea to at least introduce her as 12 or 13 years old, it's not like the other actors were playing their ages either.

Also I think season 5 was Dawn's best season because she was such an important of the main plot, so maybe they could have done more with her powers as the Key after season 5, instead of immediately making her a normal teenage girl?


Oh and I really think her screaming is overstated, she yelled 'get out' just twice. I'm not saying that it wasn't high-pitched and annoying, but from the way people talk you would think she had been screeching like that at least every 4-5 episodes!

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Dawn never annoyed me. I got tired really fast of Kennedy, however. OMG! Pushy, better-than-you kinda girl... I get that she knows who she is and what she wants and she goes for it but.... sheesh...

I think Dawn would have worked better if she had been younger, like 12 or something as I saw mentionned. And after the s5 finale, she felt more filler in season 6 and then still kind of that in 7 so they made Potential and Him (I think those were the only one's) so it'd be more centered on her and they probably dropped the whole key thing a bit fast even though Glory wasn't there anymore. I mean, she was this big mystical green shining energy called the key for the Goddess and then, oh, you're just a normal teenager... I don't know... Too easy, maybe?

She matured a lot in season 7, though, gotta give props for that and I didn't dislike her at all. There actually wasn't enough after season 5 to really form a true feel of her, if you get my drift.

Kennedy was way worse. And Harmony. But then, I felt bad for Harmony. She's a follower... a sheep, as Cordelia once called her. I liked her better in Angel, as weird as it sounds even though there wasn't all that much aside from "Harmony".

Anyway, I kinda get how Dawn could be on a list like that but at the same time, I really don't. Okay, she came in way late in the series and she was kinda there to have people be iffy about her until the big reveal but then she was left in the background again... She did get better and I like her.

Babbling done *laughs*


Edit to add: if they had had some sort of flashbacks of memories the gang felt about Dawn, it might have helped the majority understand more. What everyone felt towards her was different for us, the viewers because she only showed up fr us in season 5 while she felt lways there for everyone else. IDK.

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I really thought they took the writing of Kennedy way too far when she was immediately hitting on Willow and making comments about I've swapped arrangements so we will be sharing a bedroom, don't hog the covers. And wtf she had no idea of Willow was even interested in her at that point, waaay too pushy. And then after she became drill-sergeant with the other potentials and started bullying and name calling them, I was done with her. Least favourite Buffy character by far

And they did have a quick flashback of Buffy pushing Dawn on the swings in Blood Ties, and also Buffy in Weight Of The World remembering meeting Dawn as a baby, but those were pretty brief. It would have been fun if they had tried to insert Dawn into flashbacks of old scenes and rework them kinda, but they probably couldn't afford to pay for the computer effects I guess?

[stolenglimpse.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I was thinking flashbacks with Willow or Xander, given she had a crush on the guy and Xander acknowledged it and all. It would have been fun to see. They probably didn't have the budget for that, seeing as ASH wasn't much in the last 2 seasons (I know that was also his decision to move and all). And Dawn as a baby and Buffy pushing Dawn on the swing was really nothing lol

Yep, Kennedy... ugh!! How did Willow ever fall for her. She's totally contrary to Tara and even Oz. And Xander. Just... ugh.

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Yeah the swings flashback was kind of lame lol. Random but I also hated how they gave little Buffy super blonde hair in season 5 in photos and the WOTW flashback, that's not how she appeared in season 1 of Buffy... It was always obvious that she bleached her hair for season 2

And the only logic behind W/K seemed to be that there were two lesbians in the house, obviously they would both be attracted to one another :shrug: Kennedy really had nothing in common with any of the type of people that Willow had been attracted too in the past

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I read that SMG had to ask permission to cut her hair in season 6. Either that or her cutting her hair has made them all rewrite Gone.

Totally off topic... lol

She probably had to do something with her hair after the show got picked up. It didn't really matter for season 1 but season 2 was major. IDK.

For the flashback at the swing, that was totally useless. They could have done soooooo much better with that.

And W/K, I agree. Willow turned gay for Tara and now she was gone and they HAD to give her another love interest so I guess they just plucked Kennedy in there and why not make her a potential for extra special? They couldn't make Willow be bi now, could they? That would have been fun I think. Some would not agree I think. I don't hate that Willow's gay, at all, but it would have been a cool twist anyway. Kennedy was... convenient... I haven't read the comics so I don't know if they stayed together long or not... I'm happy Willow found someone new but Kennedy?