Yes, Cordelia was way annoying s4 of AtS - and for much of Buffy - but for the first couple seasons of AtS she is SO AWESOME that she makes up for it. Though then it makes s4 all the more frustrating and GRRRRR.
Dawn I resented in a large part because she was stuffed into the show so late but we were expected to care about her as much as the others (...or not; her char did have some strange 4th wall commentary aspects); and also because I'm not a big fan of teen angst, and she was introduced just when the other chars were outgrowing their own teen angst, so to have another new teen, with new angst, was frustrating. She also suffered from incredibly inconsistent writing - some of the writers tended to a write her more like 9-10 than 15.
If you missed some of s3 AtS then you missed a large chunk of Connor's story; I found some of what they did with him irritating, but like the char himself. He's not my favorite in the show, but his and Angel's relationship is so fantastically dysfunctional that I can't help but like it. (...then, too, I really do love Angel; I don't even know why. I totally get why people don't like him, he's kind of a tool...but I can't help myself!)
So far I haven't really found much fic of what I'd really like - I admit I've been trying mostly B/A and B/S/A, but everything I've found seems to be either ridiculous gooey romance (mostly OOC and not very well written) or horribly depressing, torturous AAAAANGST, where in the chars do one another more harm than good, and half the time someone's dead by the end (not nearly as OOC because Whedeon chars lend themselves to angst, but not what I want in my entertainment!) I crave something in between, angsty with a mostly happy, maybe slightly dysfunctional end. (I'm getting the feeling that might be easier to find with B/S or A/S, but...I like B/A, dangit. And it seems that both A/S and B/S fic often gets into dissing that pairing bad ^^;)
But there's a LOT of fic out there, so I have hopes of finding something that scratches this itch...
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Dawn I resented in a large part because she was stuffed into the show so late but we were expected to care about her as much as the others (...or not; her char did have some strange 4th wall commentary aspects); and also because I'm not a big fan of teen angst, and she was introduced just when the other chars were outgrowing their own teen angst, so to have another new teen, with new angst, was frustrating. She also suffered from incredibly inconsistent writing - some of the writers tended to a write her more like 9-10 than 15.
If you missed some of s3 AtS then you missed a large chunk of Connor's story; I found some of what they did with him irritating, but like the char himself. He's not my favorite in the show, but his and Angel's relationship is so fantastically dysfunctional that I can't help but like it. (...then, too, I really do love Angel; I don't even know why. I totally get why people don't like him, he's kind of a tool...but I can't help myself!)
So far I haven't really found much fic of what I'd really like - I admit I've been trying mostly B/A and B/S/A, but everything I've found seems to be either ridiculous gooey romance (mostly OOC and not very well written) or horribly depressing, torturous AAAAANGST, where in the chars do one another more harm than good, and half the time someone's dead by the end (not nearly as OOC because Whedeon chars lend themselves to angst, but not what I want in my entertainment!) I crave something in between, angsty with a mostly happy, maybe slightly dysfunctional end. (I'm getting the feeling that might be easier to find with B/S or A/S, but...I like B/A, dangit. And it seems that both A/S and B/S fic often gets into dissing that pairing bad ^^;)
But there's a LOT of fic out there, so I have hopes of finding something that scratches this itch...