On May 12, 7:32 pm, "One Bit Shy" <O...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "Arbitrar Of Quality" <tsm...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > On May 9, 8:13 pm, "One Bit Shy" <O...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > See, again, that's kinda my point. Dawn is primarily im****tant to
> > Spike's story because she's an extension of Buffy.
>
> Well, either I've lost the thread of conversation or we're saying the
same
> thing. As you say later, Dawn is a device at least as much as a
character.
> It's not Dawn the person that matters so much. Even with Buffy it's
Dawn
> the symbolic representation of life, death, love, Joyce & Slayer duty as
> much as it is Dawn the sister. What I was trying to say is that Dawn -
> whether as device or character - openly links to what is im****tant to a
wide
> range of characters more so than Connor does. She's a device that
engages
> the breadth of the show even when it's not about her personally.
I think my point, which was a digression from the main conversation to
begin with, is that I don't find her as central as you do. I still
think it's stretching it to call her a big mover of Willow's story.
As a person, she mainly matters to the protagonist. As a plot device,
she's a trigger for aspects of one or two other characters' stories
(Spike and Giles, in this case).
Anyway, I'm less inclined to want all roads to run through someone,
even if they're the source of the threat to our dimension or the
miracle child who brings an apocalypse. We agree that Connor is
mostly hugely im****tant to Angel (and his existence has a huge effect
on Wesley). This is only inherently a problem if you believe that the
season is "all about" Connor because of the way it ends, which is what
I was reacting to.
-AOQ
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