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Buffy and Dawn
Jul. 20th, 2003 11:23 amYesterday I brought up only a few things I enjoyed about seasons 4-7 (and I still can't believe I left out the musical when talking about the experimental episodes, as both Superplin and Butterfly pointed out). One major element, however, which I didn't address yet because it deserves a separate post, was Dawn and the Buffy-Dawn relationship.
Now admittedly I've got a soft spot for sibling relationships anyway. But I still think inventing Dawn, and casting Michelle Trachtenberg, was one of Joss' best ideas. He took a soap opera cliché - the relation nobody ever heard about before turns up - and used it not just as a major plot point of the season 5 arc which made sense within the Buffyverse, but as an exploration of his main character which, imo, later was only rivalled by the Connor arc and the Angel-Connor relationship. (Proving it's possible to strike gold twice, if you do it inventively enough. At some point, somebody has to write a parallels-and-differences essay about Buffy/Dawn and Angel/Connor.)
( So here are some of my favourite Buffy and Dawn moments. )
Now admittedly I've got a soft spot for sibling relationships anyway. But I still think inventing Dawn, and casting Michelle Trachtenberg, was one of Joss' best ideas. He took a soap opera cliché - the relation nobody ever heard about before turns up - and used it not just as a major plot point of the season 5 arc which made sense within the Buffyverse, but as an exploration of his main character which, imo, later was only rivalled by the Connor arc and the Angel-Connor relationship. (Proving it's possible to strike gold twice, if you do it inventively enough. At some point, somebody has to write a parallels-and-differences essay about Buffy/Dawn and Angel/Connor.)
( So here are some of my favourite Buffy and Dawn moments. )
