Buffy The Vampire Slayer: Ranking The Songs In Once More With Feeling

13. Dawn's Lament

It started off promising, setting up Dawn's solo moment, but she is kidnapped before she can get very far into the song. In a lot of ways, this was for the best though. Michelle Trachtenberg's voice isn't particularly strong and behind the scenes she was reluctant to sing on camera.

Still, it would have been nice to see Dawn voice some of her own secrets and hidden feelings. Because of Buffy coming back, Dawn has up to this point spent the season feeling left out and shunned by her sister. She does't get the chance to sing, however, and because of that we're left wondering what else she would have said or admitted to had she been allowed to continue.

Alas, this is not the case. Dawn spends the rest of the episode prisoner to Sweet, the demon responsible for the town's sudden need to sing, and the character development she could have received from this episode is instead given to Buffy and the rest of the gang. Unfortunately, all of this culminates in a bottom ranking.