Dawn served to emphasize Buffy's humanity at a time when she was most afraid of losing it.
In "The Gift", when Buffy says "Dawn is a part of me. The only part that I..." I've always thought that what Buffy was trying to articulate here was that she felt Dawn was the part of her that retained her humanity - the part that was all humanity, what she might have been like if she hadn't been the Slayer, and that was part of why Buffy was willing to sacrifice anything in order to save her.
Dealing with the Potentials in S7 allowed Buffy to see the truth for herself: those who were called to be Slayers were just girls. Some brave and some afraid, but all human,
I had never really thought about it that way, but it makes so much sense! Buffy is finally provided the opportunity to see that Slayers are created from "normal" girls.
I didn't always like the Potentials as individuals (though in my rewatch I realized that I liked Kennedy just fine up until about GiD), but I very much liked the way they gave Buffy a new role to play and the way they were used in "Chosen".
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Date: 2006-02-12 04:20 am (UTC)In "The Gift", when Buffy says "Dawn is a part of me. The only part that I..." I've always thought that what Buffy was trying to articulate here was that she felt Dawn was the part of her that retained her humanity - the part that was all humanity, what she might have been like if she hadn't been the Slayer, and that was part of why Buffy was willing to sacrifice anything in order to save her.
Dealing with the Potentials in S7 allowed Buffy to see the truth for herself: those who were called to be Slayers were just girls. Some brave and some afraid, but all human,
I had never really thought about it that way, but it makes so much sense! Buffy is finally provided the opportunity to see that Slayers are created from "normal" girls.
I didn't always like the Potentials as individuals (though in my rewatch I realized that I liked Kennedy just fine up until about GiD), but I very much liked the way they gave Buffy a new role to play and the way they were used in "Chosen".