Which, of course, leaves a lot of quasi-Scoobies out of the loop. I've always thought that Cordelia and Anya were both the voice of the group, but I don't have a theory as such in regard to Angel, Spike, Riley, Oz or Dawn. (Tara was the conscience, of course, but that was always pretty obvious.)
I think Dawn was, originally, the innocence of the group. She hadn't been as hardened and as hurt (though this began to change after the season 5 finale) as the others had been. And children traditionally symbolise innocence, don't they? She seems to fit that. Riley was the group's innocence during season 4 - he might have been the big soldier boy, but he was fundementally innocent about the way that the world the Scoobies live in works.
I think Angel, Spike and Oz all fill the same function, just in different ways. I'm not sure what you'd call it, if you tried to classify it, but it's the way that none of them are fully human anymore. I'm not sure what you'd call what they represent, though. ...or am I just dragging this out too far?
Andrew ... Andrew is going to be their eyes some day, believe it or not. Perception of a different variety to Xander's, since Xander sees with his heart.
*nods* Andrew sees things in a far more intelectual way to Xander. He's the outsider and he analyses their behaviour. He picks it apart and draws conclusions from what he sees.
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Re: About Buffy. :)
Date: 2003-07-18 02:27 am (UTC)Which, of course, leaves a lot of quasi-Scoobies out of the loop. I've always thought that Cordelia and Anya were both the voice of the group, but I don't have a theory as such in regard to Angel, Spike, Riley, Oz or Dawn. (Tara was the conscience, of course, but that was always pretty obvious.)
I think Dawn was, originally, the innocence of the group. She hadn't been as hardened and as hurt (though this began to change after the season 5 finale) as the others had been. And children traditionally symbolise innocence, don't they? She seems to fit that. Riley was the group's innocence during season 4 - he might have been the big soldier boy, but he was fundementally innocent about the way that the world the Scoobies live in works.
I think Angel, Spike and Oz all fill the same function, just in different ways. I'm not sure what you'd call it, if you tried to classify it, but it's the way that none of them are fully human anymore.
I'm not sure what you'd call what they represent, though. ...or am I just dragging this out too far?
Andrew ... Andrew is going to be their eyes some day, believe it or not. Perception of a different variety to Xander's, since Xander sees with his heart.
*nods* Andrew sees things in a far more intelectual way to Xander. He's the outsider and he analyses their behaviour. He picks it apart and draws conclusions from what he sees.