giandujakiss: I always considered it such a waste on Buffy

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@ 2011-01-08 11:58 am UTC

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I always considered it such a waste on Buffy

that nothing ever became of the fact that Dawn is actually an ancient ball of energy with immense power.

Did the comics ever do anything with that?

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	no subject yhlee 2011-01-08 05:33 pm UTC (link)
	I will confess that I've bailed on the comics, but last I heard, they had Dawn turning into a giant, then a centaur, and then something else I missed because I skipped those issues. Then she was dating Xander. In the issues I read there was no substantive mention of Dawn's ancient ball of energy nature. It's kind of sad. (Reply to this) (Thread) (Hide 2 comments) (Show 2 comments)

	no subject giandujakiss 2011-01-08 05:34 pm UTC (link)
	It's really sad if she's turning into things and they still haven't mentioned her origins. In the annals of egregiously dropped plotlines, that has to be near the tippy top. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 1 comment) (Show 1 comment)

	no subject yhlee 2011-01-08 05:35 pm UTC (link)
	Well, I'm many issues behind now, so there's a small chance that someone writing the comics has remembered. With any luck someone who's current on the comics will stop by and confirm one way or the other. :-D (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

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par_avion
2011-01-08 07:15 pm UTC (link)

No. Her transformations in the comics were related to boy trouble (she got cursed by her ex boyfriend dir cheating, he was a thrice wise demon. Her transformations onto a centaur and a giant were largely played for laughs. The part where she became tiny and doll like was just stupid.

At one point it seemed like the show was maybe going somewhere with eg her mad translation skills, but know it was just bad writing.

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	no subject par_avion 2011-01-08 07:18 pm UTC (link)
	Apologies for the typos I'm on my phone. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

	no subject giandujakiss 2011-01-08 08:02 pm UTC (link)
	I did not know about any of these storylines. And ... they sound not so great to me, I must admit. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

	no subject hazelk 2011-01-08 08:12 pm UTC (link)
	Dawn having been a key gets mentioned two or three times in the last couple of arcs but plotwise the point is that she's human now (which makes more thematic sense when you know how it ends). The earlier transformations are more like metaphorical growing pains while she's not sure what she is or how she fits in. (Reply to this) (Thread) (Hide 1 comment) (Show 1 comment)

	no subject giandujakiss 2011-01-08 08:13 pm UTC (link)
	Well, I don't know how it ends but I find that disappointing. Esp. since they said in the canon that the reason the monks made her instead of destroying her was so that her power could be harnessed for good. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

	no subject saraht 2011-01-08 08:37 pm UTC (link)
	To be modestly fair (the comics are dead to me, on account of something that happened recently), it's kind of an amorphous concept, one that the fandom didn't know what to do with, either. I'm sure there must be a few stories that dealt with it besides mine, but they've escaped my memory--certainly it wasn't a large group. (Reply to this) (Thread) (Hide 13 comments) (Show 13 comments)

	no subject giandujakiss 2011-01-08 08:38 pm UTC (link)
	Yeah, it was amorphous, but I just wished there'd been something about her having mystical energy that could be used for some purpose. It's weird that it was just hanging out there. Even if she wasn't used specifically as a "key." (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 12 comments) (Show 12 comments)

	no subject saraht 2011-01-08 08:40 pm UTC (link)
	Well, the comics started out somewhat engaging, then somewhere along the way I just fell asleep mid-read and quit them, and now (spoiler spoiler spoiler) so I wouldn't bother. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 11 comments) (Show 11 comments)

	no subject giandujakiss 2011-01-08 08:50 pm UTC (link)
	You can tell me the spoiler - I'm not going to read them and now I really want to know. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 10 comments) (Show 10 comments)

	no subject saraht 2011-01-08 08:52 pm UTC (link)
	Possessed!Angel killed Giles. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 9 comments) (Show 9 comments)

	no subject giandujakiss 2011-01-08 08:52 pm UTC (link)
	oh noes! i love giles. and there goes my buffy/giles 'ship! Last edited 2011-01-08 08:53 pm UTC (now with appropriate icon) (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

	no subject yhlee 2011-01-08 09:07 pm UTC (link)
	Wait he what?! If the comics weren't dead to me before (I bailed at the Buffy/Angel cosmic shenanigans, and ordinarily I'm a Buffy/Angel shipper! [1]), they're really dead to me now. [1] Mostly I find them entertainingly doomed. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

	no subject very_improbable 2011-01-08 10:54 pm UTC (link)
	Oh you have got to be fucking kidding me. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 5 comments) (Show 5 comments)

	no subject very_improbable 2011-01-08 10:56 pm UTC (link)
	Wait, though, is he permanently dead or just comics dead? (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

	no subject saraht 2011-01-08 11:36 pm UTC (link)
	I skimmed it in the comic book shop, so I suppose there's a small chance it was a dream sequence or something and I missed it, but I don't think so. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 3 comments) (Show 3 comments)

	no subject giandujakiss 2011-01-08 11:36 pm UTC (link)
	It wasn't - after you commented I remembered seeing somewhere on Whedonesque about Giles dying, and they asked ASH's reaction. Didn't know it was Angel, though. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 1 comment) (Show 1 comment)

	no subject saraht 2011-01-09 02:56 am UTC (link)
	Killing Giles is Just Not On. Ever. And doing it in the service of keeping Buffy and Angel apart romantically? BORING. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

	no subject laceblade 2011-01-09 03:14 am UTC (link)
	It wasn't. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

	no subject stewardess 2011-01-09 05:20 am UTC (link)
	Good to know. Not reading that series EVER. Sometimes spoilers are not a bad thing. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

	no subject cee_m 2011-01-21 08:21 pm UTC (link)
	Hmm... really interesting thought. Yeah that's weird. they build it all up and talk about it and then... nothing. Hmm. (Reply to this)

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