When Zora Summers (Michelle Trahtenberg) first appeared at the end of the 5th of the "Vampire Killer Buffer", episode 1, it was a shock to everyone who watched. It has never been mentioned that Buffy has a younger sister, and yet, as soon as it appears, the entire cast works as the most natural thing in the world. It was clear at the time that something strange was remote, but it took some time for the fans to understand it. The secret of dawn, her status as a "key", and her relationship with the villager and a hellish goddess glory (Claire Kramer) takes place during season 5, contributing to what many (including I) see as the biggest chapter of the show.

With the recent, tragic news about Trahtenberg's deathIt seems appropriate to look back in some of her best episodes of Buffy. Always a unique piece of the show's ensemble, Dawn plays in some of the most emotional stories throughout the series, and her relationship with Bufi (Sarah Michel Gellar) is one of the true peaks of the series.

These are the best episodes of "Zora Summers" on "Buffy the Vampire Slayer".

It's just right to start the first complete episode of Dawn Bufi. Real Me is taking the frightening task of assimilating also an unusual casting character, driving a four -year -old chemistry. This makes it skillfully with casting dawn as a perspective character and episode narrator, which is anchored with votes clips from its log records. It is a fun and fresh way to see the story as it stands at the beginning of season 5, with Dawn providing something from the outsider perspective of the Scubi gang.

We also get the beginning of the sister -to -dawn relationship here - balance of nipples and nipples and heavy Loveum that sets a solid foundation for the upcoming season. Gellar wears immediate depth in this new dynamics of the image of Bufi, and Trahtenberg responds to her beating rhythm. Although not the highest deposits or the emotional episodes of dawn, "Real Me" is a great start to her story, and the basic mystery of your first viewing adds a lot.

Jumping forward to Buffy's last season, we have a "potential" that puts dawn in the role of potential-potential, if you want-someone who could have the capacity to become a killer in his place. In the midst of a chaotic and frankly exaggerated season, this chapter gives Dawn one of her more interesting episode arcs, as she is in danger trying to prove that she can be as capable and strong as her sister.

In the end, of course, it turns out that the potential killer the crew was looking for is someone else. Dawn must oppose the reality that despite being adjacent to so much supernatural meaning, it will probably never be at the center of it. It is a kind of story that "Buffy" always features a mixed in the age of age with fantastic deposits. In the middle of the upcoming apocalypse, the "potential" does a nice job by adding a personal touch to the dawn status of the season, and Trahtenberg is shining with a few years getting to know the character under her belt.

Another episode of Season 7, "Dead People Talks" has a unique vignette structure. It is episodes we move away from characters that follow various members of the cast in independent stories, with Dawn starring in one of the most memorable. While only at home, the disorders of the PolterGaist-ESC begin to torment the house. Believing that her dead mother is somehow included, dawn should work trying to stand up to the chaos.

It is a fun opportunity to see that dawn works through prefabricated danger independently. Trachtenberg does some of his best things in this isolated nail polish, balancing the long -term grief of the character and her desire to prove herself capable. The final confrontation between dawn and what seems to be (but really not) her mother's spectrum is powerful, and helps to take the dawn emotionally before it begins to gather the real intensity of the season. Although she is unrelated to her bigger story, Dawn vignette in "Dead People" is definitely a mark.

"Forever" is a fantastic episode of "Buffy" that is often overshadowed by the "body", a critically appreciated episode that is directly preceded by it. "The Body" details the consequences of Bufi finds his mother Oyooy (Christine Sutherland) dead In their house, following the sadness and gap of the next hours in heart details through a close focus on the buffs itself. "Forever" continues with these topics, and while it may be less known ("The Body" is considered the best episode of "Buffy", Like one of the biggest TV episodes of all time), adds new layers to the story, specifically through dawn.

As we see Dawn's grief with her sister in "Body", their common trauma to brothers and sisters is the main focus of "forever". Bufi is struggling with the sister and guardian of Zora at once, as long as she tried as much as she could run from her huge sadness.

The episode's climax sees Zora desperately trying to resurrect Oyos through Arkan, despite warnings that she can't get the result she hopes. Positions exchange when the magic seems to work, because Dawn understands the horror of what she did and the buffs, the weight of her sadness returns to it at once, begins to hope that the resurrection can actually work. At a powerful moment of younger brothers and sisters had to be ripe, dawn deactivates magic shortly before the Bufi has released a potentially dangerous force. The two gathered in the end, yet destroyed, but stronger to accept each other's support.

While the other episodes of this are excellent, "blood links" are the Dawn episode. This is the moment when she finally reveals who and what she is. When Trahtenberg was thrown, this was the moment when she had to build, and she absolutely nailed it.

Driving at the end of her wit of all the conversations about her, Dawn is breaking into the magic box with the help of Spike to look through Tome holding the answers. Seeing her face as she finally reveals that she is the key is heart, but nothing compared to when she later faced other characters, praying to know what she is, if she is real, and if all her memories are lies.

Zora lights up her diaries, which serve as a kind of structural line to that moment of the season, and she almost encountered a difficult fate in the hands of fame as she escapes from her sister and others. Trachtenberg nailed her Heart stroke "Bufi" moment of the spotlightAnd the emotional great power of this episode, combined with the destruction of the "body", is combined to create the basis for the unforgettable finale of season 5.