Fannish 5: five favourite sibling relationships

1. Buffy: Buffy and Dawn
I love the Buffy&Dawn relationship, both in the early stages of Dawn being the whiny little sister and later on, when she starts to develop into an adult. I find Dawn fascinating as a character, partly because she has the reverse arc of your typical Scooby (who tend to start out normal and then develop powers) and starts out as the key and moves abruptly into a state of normalcy (or as normal as S6 gets). Playing off against this is Buffy having sudden demands on her time as a person as well as a slayer, in the absence of her mother. Dawn is what ties Buffy to the 'normal' world.

2. Carnivale: Iris and Justin Crowe
My entire list is going to be predictable, I feel! Also not a shock, I love how fiercely Iris loves her brother, and everything she is prepared to do for his sake.

3. Alias: Sydney and Nadia
Again predictable. The few episodes these two had together left me with an overwhelming of their happiness. Having the other exist is enough to make their world better.

4. Dexter: Dexter and Deb
I have only seen the first season, but what a cracking season it is - and how awesome are these two? I love Deb's absolute loyalty to Dexter, and how he may be a complete psycho, but don't you threaten his sister!

5. Dead Like Me: George and Reggie
I love this. Period. Reggie needs her sister so much, and it's only through George's death that George comes to understand this and to try to be there for her, in whatever disasterous ways that might be.

So who didn't make the list? Perhaps more interesting than who did!

1. Supernatural: Sam and Dean Winchester
Now, I'm not really, which probably doesn't help, but the sibling relationship here doesn't seem that strong to me. Or, rather, there is definitely a connection, but it doesn't quite convince me as a sibling one. Which may account for all the Wincest, I don't know.

2. Rome: Octavia and Octavian
Oh dear oh dear! Wonderful to watch, but sort of car-crash telly!

3. Fables: Snow White and Rose Red
Both for Red's attitude and behaviour, and for Snow apparently not giving a toss! Poor show on both parts.

4. The West Wing: Zoey, Ellie and Elizabeth
And if we ever saw them as sisters rather than daughters I might have changed my mind!

5. Harry Potter: the Weasleys
More of a family unit than a focus on siblings for me, although Fred&George come close.

6. Gossip Girl: the Van der Woodsens (and Bass...)
Eric, Serena and Chuck almost made it, but again I tend to think of them all + Lily as a family unit rather than singling out the sibling aspect (which admittedly is a major highlight for me).

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