Dawn Summers
In Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight, Dawn has become a giant, which Buffy believes is the result of losing her virginity to a "thricewise" named Kenny. Later in the series however, Dawn confides in Xander that she in fact slept with Kenny's roommate. She features prominently on both covers of issue #14, rampaging through Tokyo. Dawn is againt featured on the cover of the upcoming cover for Time of Your Life issue #18, where she is shown to be a centaur[2]
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Concept and creation
The arrival of Dawn Summers is foreshadowed in cryptic dream sequences in both the Season Three finale "Graduation Day, Part Two" and the Season Four episode "This Year's Girl," in which a still-comatose Faith says, while making a bed with Buffy in Dawn's future bedroom, "Little sis coming, I know." Buffy replies, "So much to do before she gets here." In the season four finale, "Restless," Tara warns Buffy to "be back before Dawn."
According to Buffy creator Joss Whedon, the introduction of Dawn in Season Five was partly so that protagonist Buffy Summers could experience a "really important, intense emotional relationship" with someone other than a boyfriend. "She's as intense as she was in Season Two with Angelus, but it's about her sister," Whedon says. "To me that was really beautiful."[3] Trachtenberg says she was thrust into the role without knowing much about Dawn's personality; she describes her initial meeting with Joss Whedon as "Alright, welcome to the cast, you're a teenager, you're a Key, have fun."[4]
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Characterization
Responding to fan complaints of Dawn being whiny throughout Season Six, Joss Whedon says, "I scratched my head. I was like, 'Excuse me, she's been abandoned by about six parental figures. The girl has huge issues.'" However, he acknowledges that he and the writers hit "the same note for a while... We needed to make some changes."[5] Whedon has expressed regret over not being able to go further with Dawn's character in season seven, but, as he says, "You get into a situation that you do like to stand alone [but] Dawn Goes on a Date is not something that people would really sit for."[6]
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Popular culture
In 2005, Diamond Select Toys produced several action figures in the likeness of Michelle Trachtenberg for their Buffy the Vampire Slayer line. Each figure featured a "real-scan" likeness of Michelle and episode/character specific outfit. Figures produced: "Lessons Dawn", "Once More, With Feeling Dawn", "The Gift Dawn" alongside Glory, and "Intervention Dawn" alongside Buffy and Joyce in a "Summers Family Figures" set.[citation needed]
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References
- ^ "The Girl in Question" commentary
- ^ http://www.slayalive.com/index.cgi?board=buffyseason8&action=display&thread=2563
- ^ Miller, Laura (May 20, 2003), The man behind the Slayer, <http://dir.salon.com/story/ent/tv/int/2003/05/20/whedon/index.html?pn=3>. Retrieved on 07//17/2007
- ^ Dawning glory Interview with Michelle Trachtenberg, <http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/buffy/interviews/trachtenberg/page2.shtml>. Retrieved on 07//18/2007
- ^ P., Ken (June 23, 2003), An Interview with Joss Whedon, <http://movies.ign.com/articles/425/425492p9.html>. Retrieved on 07//18/2007
- ^ P., Ken (June 23, 2003), An Interview with Joss Whedon, <http://movies.ign.com/articles/425/425492p9.html>. Retrieved on 07//18/2007
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