Using Watcher!verse canon, because I'm tired of "She's whiny" as a reason why Dawn sucks, and I'm egotistical enough to think the flaws I gave her are more interesting.
1.) No matter what reasoning she may follow or how strongly she may believe it, reinstating the Cruciamentum is full of suck.
2.) of course, it's not just the Cruciamentum. There's nothing--and no one--she won't sacrifice if she considers it necessary.
3.) Except for Madelyn. The one person in the entire world she can't be trusted to be objective about, to end their life without a second thought when it becomes necessary, just happens to be the person who can end it with a thought.
1.) He's not exactly an amazing manager, you know? The fact that he can rely on the beauty of his vision and the people devoted to it is a testament of some sort, but it'd be useful if he didn't let himself get pulled in so many diretions.
2.) Are frogs vertebrats? I don't really know, but Kermit only occasionally shows any sign of a backbone.
As with Dawn, relying rather extensively more on my own canon than on Joss's.
1.) On first glance, it might look like Giles is the reformist and Dawn is the "Meet the new boss, same as the old boss"--see my criticisms of Dawn here--but really Giles' attempts at reform are somewhat predictable and rather haphazard, and without the strength of Dawn's vision would probably be ineffectual.
2.) It's not even that Giles has difficulty connecting with people--he still dates every once and a while (pre-marriage, I meab)--it's that he deliberately disconnects from the people that mean the most to him, even when one of them is living in his house. In defense, he does periodically recognize this, and act accordingly, and I think after his marriage he manages to open up some.
3.) He really can't be trusted to make all the sacrifices--not personal sacrifices, which he is fine at, but the sacrificing of others who are more expendable than he--required for his job.
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Date: 2007-05-25 05:00 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-05-25 05:14 pm (UTC)2.) #1 was enough to make me hate him enought to deliberately avoid him whenever possible, so that's all I know about him.
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Date: 2007-05-25 06:08 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-05-25 05:19 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-05-26 01:40 am (UTC)1.) No matter what reasoning she may follow or how strongly she may believe it, reinstating the Cruciamentum is full of suck.
2.) of course, it's not just the Cruciamentum. There's nothing--and no one--she won't sacrifice if she considers it necessary.
3.) Except for Madelyn. The one person in the entire world she can't be trusted to be objective about, to end their life without a second thought when it becomes necessary, just happens to be the person who can end it with a thought.
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Date: 2007-05-25 05:54 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-05-26 01:42 am (UTC)2.) She brings out the worst in me.
3.) She really, really needs to get her act together.
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Date: 2007-05-26 03:01 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-05-25 06:07 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-05-25 10:44 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-05-26 04:51 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-05-26 04:09 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-05-26 04:09 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-05-26 04:02 pm (UTC)2.) Are frogs vertebrats? I don't really know, but Kermit only occasionally shows any sign of a backbone.
3.) I can't think of anything else.
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Date: 2007-05-26 04:10 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-05-25 10:46 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-05-26 02:06 pm (UTC)1.) On first glance, it might look like Giles is the reformist and Dawn is the "Meet the new boss, same as the old boss"--see my criticisms of Dawn here--but really Giles' attempts at reform are somewhat predictable and rather haphazard, and without the strength of Dawn's vision would probably be ineffectual.
2.) It's not even that Giles has difficulty connecting with people--he still dates every once and a while (pre-marriage, I meab)--it's that he deliberately disconnects from the people that mean the most to him, even when one of them is living in his house. In defense, he does periodically recognize this, and act accordingly, and I think after his marriage he manages to open up some.
3.) He really can't be trusted to make all the sacrifices--not personal sacrifices, which he is fine at, but the sacrificing of others who are more expendable than he--required for his job.