Well Dawn made the list...

[frelling_tralk]

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!

Comments

[frelling-tralk.livejournal.com]

Yes, season 6 was really the only time her character bothered me as well, and I suppose it was partly because she was used as a way to add to Buffy's burden. It used to annoy me in As You Werre that she just tells Buffy it's garbage day when surely she was old enough to help out herself and share chores with Buffy

[chloris.livejournal.com]

Heh. I have an eight year old. Dawn was PLENTY old enough to help out.

[frelling-tralk.livejournal.com]

The writers were set on portraying Buffy more as a mother figure I guess, instead of two sisters working out an arrangement for themselves after the loss of their mother