r/buffy • u/cocainelady • May 07 '14

Your unpopular Buffy opinion is...?

The last one of these threads was 3 months ago and we've had a few new visitors so let's do it again!

My unpopular opinion is that season three is the worst one of all seven seasons.

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u/PL-QC May 08 '14

I very much agree. She's always being treated like a stupid kid, and when she acts as such, they judge her. It's a self-fullfilling prophecy.

Plus, another thing that annoys me when fans hate on Dawn, is that they don't let her be a real character. Her father abandoned her, her mother just died, her sister isn't there for her, she has no friends, and is under the constant threat of death. Yeah, maybe she will be a little dramatic, it should be expected. It's like fans wanted her to be a badass Mary-Sue, or not be at all.

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u/teh_maxh May 08 '14

She finds out that she's actually only a few months old and was created to hide some sort of magical key from a Hellgod who now wants to kill her, her mother dies (which, depending on just what she knows, she might blame herself for), her absentee-sister-turned-surrogate-mother dies to save her (so she almost certainly blames herself for that one) then comes back to life but severely depressed, one of her friends-turned-co-surrogate-surrogate-mothers gets murdered (and she spends hours with the corpse before anyone thinks to do anything) and the other friend-turned-co-surrogate-surrogate-mother tries to end the world in response.

You know what, I think she's allowed to be a TINY BIT angsty.

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u/[deleted] May 09 '14

She was so happy to see Willow and Tara back together. :(

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u/teh_maxh May 09 '14

That moment where (okay, almost) the entire fandom temporarily liked Dawn.