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

[silverusagi]

They should have either cast a younger actress like they originally planned, or they should have upped the age of the character in the writing. I don't find Dawn annoying, but I am annoyed by the weird disconnect of how the show treats her and how the show treated the Scoobies when they were only 1-2 years older (depending on what season of Dawn you're talking about).

[frelling-tralk.livejournal.com]

Yeah, like I was saying to sabotabby, it doesn't bother me as much in season 5 when Dawn has just been created by the monks and is extra sheltered by Joyce for reasons I can fanwank, but it gets awkward when she's 15 in season 6 and gets treated more like a ten year old in the writing much of the time, even though Buffy and her friends were pretty much saving the world at close to that age. I mean seriously what's with Tara asking if she wants her pancakes made into funny shapes, she's not eight for goodness sake