[ SECRET POST #4092 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4092 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

But...

from the point of view of the person watching the show, what is actually different about the relationship between Dawn and Buffy, and a preexisting relationship between two characters in the first episode of a show? Xander and Willow's childhood friendship isn't any more earned or real than Dawn and Buffy's relationship, when you think about it.

[(Anonymous)]

The difference is that one is backstory and the other is a major plot development. They’re not comparable at all. It would be like if halfway through the second Lord of the Rings movie, Legolas’s kid brother Billy was suddenly a part of the fellowship and everyone kept talking to each other about how great it was that Billy’s always been around for everyone. Meanwhile, Billy spends most of his time summoning Balrogs and getting kidnapped by trolls.

[(Anonymous)]

The difference is probably that as viewers we understand that not every series can begin with total strangers earning each other's trust, so when we start a new series, the characters may have established roles and relationships with other characters. We had no investment in any other dynamic and no reason to doubt their friendship, so it was easy to accept Willow and Xander as childhood friends.

Dawn, on the other hand, was introduced in season five, far past the point where people began expecting new character relationships to take a little more work. Plus it was an actual plot point (and a point of insecurity for Dawn) that she wasn't real and neither was her relationship with Buffy--that Buffy loved her only because the monks forced her to.