At the end of the episode Xander told her how he coped with the problem. That's Xander dealing not Dawn, just as Angel giving Faith advice isn't the same as Faith taking it on board. And you're beginning to sound like those people who think one epiphany should have made Buffy all better in S6.
In *one* (!) panel we had an OC introduced and explained, leaving us free to focus on the rest of the story.
It had exactly the opposite effect on me because while I'd be happy to wait for the dragon thing to play out, the idea of it actually being a nice (but dim) dragon is a) lame and b) and convincing Angel of this in the middle of a fight (and vice versa) sounded so physically impossible that I stopped thinking about the story completely while trying to figure that out. I also think the questionof how trustworthy the dragon is extremely relevant to Angel. Metaphorically the dragon is Angelus, power, ambition all the things Angel accepted about himself in order to take down the Black Thorn. It's also red and has a neck shaped like a penis.
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In *one* (!) panel we had an OC introduced and explained, leaving us free to focus on the rest of the story.
It had exactly the opposite effect on me because while I'd be happy to wait for the dragon thing to play out, the idea of it actually being a nice (but dim) dragon is a) lame and b) and convincing Angel of this in the middle of a fight (and vice versa) sounded so physically impossible that I stopped thinking about the story completely while trying to figure that out. I also think the questionof how trustworthy the dragon is extremely relevant to Angel. Metaphorically the dragon is Angelus, power, ambition all the things Angel accepted about himself in order to take down the Black Thorn. It's also red and has a neck shaped like a penis.