(Please note: I do understand that these are most likely issues with the codes, however, I am not saying this in total seriousness. I am merely saying it through an immersive point of view, what I would consider to be a journal entry in my Dragonborn's journal (yes, I do have the journal mod), and since Skyrim's forums only have so many places to post, and I wanted to share my thoughts on this with you guys, and it contained spoilers, I placed it here. Again, this is not to be taken seriously.)

So, after reaching the courtyard for the quest Chasing Echoes, I proceeded to unlock the dial, and headed down to the ruins, Serana trailing behind me. After a few minutes of checking things out (I like to take in my surroundings) we're going down a hallway when an arrow comes out of nowhere, and flies into Serana's head. She just stands there and says "I think I heard something," Seriously, Serana? Could the thing you heard possibly be the arrow that flew straight into your head? All she really says when going around fighting is "I think I heard something." "Is someone there?" "Done and done." It's like, all she says.

After a little more fighting (and a few billion more "I think I heard something" 's) a Gargoyle bursts out of the wall lunges straight at her. What does she say? "Is someone there?" Again, seriously? Could it possibly be the Gargoyle that just lunged at you? Another thing; she literally got stuck on a potato. She was walking until she reached the potato, she then proceeded walk in place for a few seconds, then stopped and sheathed her weapons. She refused to budge an inch until I moved the potato back onto the table. Then she carries on like nothing happened. Seriously, Serana, you got stuck on a potato? Seriously?

Being manipulated by a corpse or a piece of clutter can be funny, until Your character gets beheaded by a Draugr during a Killcam.

You have the benefit of Serana Worshippers having over a Year to get over being Thralled by the Vampiress

That's a rule for all followers.

But I think Farwil from Oblivion takes the cake after diving into lava to get a Dremora Catiff...

Huzzah!

I hated keeping the idiot alive

nah she is non to bright. I hate the fact she keeps bringing the dead back to life. Look. I don't want to be sneaking through some lair with a corpse walking behind me moaning "please kill me."

I swear to god I heard one say "thankyou" when I killed it. That was disturbing.

Also when she decides to sandbox next to me when I'm doing something and then go into an infinite loop of "yes, do you need something?" When it was she who approached me. The best part about finishing Dawnguard when I can walk off without her assistance anymore.

I just skipped across the rocks under the bridge. I also had around 350 health at the time so... It was easier for me.

If your on PC, the Unofficial patches can fix that, use the latest version of course.

Serana is the only follower my character ever had that got into a fight with my other follower time and time again

says enough about her

of i can i always drop herr while doing Dawnguard quests i m pretty sick and tired looking like a ice porcupine after each fight

I guess at least YOUR Serana has the excuse of the arrow to the head

ANY of the mage followers in the game has the annoying habit of blasting the enemy you just killed with some overpowered spell that sends the corpse flying off to where you can't reach it to loot it. At least Serana has a higher than normal chance of reviving it instead.

No, she isn't. (???)

That is, if she manages to hit it... Every time we're in a fight I always end up with ice spikes coming out of my head.

After my first character I learned to make sure that I had the "heal other" Restoration spell before I doing that quest.

There are several new thread about Serana this couple of days.

She is still popular apparently.

I don't know which dungeon has the claw trap in the middle of the floor. I'm always running so she is usually a ways behind me. I play a mage using fire spells, fire shouts, and summoning. I was running down the cave hall and I don't set off traps so I just run over them. Serana ran over the trap, set off the claw and it threw her into the wall, got up and ran over the trap agian and agian until I moved to the side of the hall. I LOLed watching her.

After that I took her with me to fight the dragon in the main quest after learning dragon rend before finishing dawnguard. I figured since she can't die, she could help me. I lost site of her and then I died, so I don't think she stayed immortal in that quest.

That's all the followers in Skyrim buddy. Serana is probably the best follower in the game.. cause she actually has a story. Aela and Mjoll are cool too. But they don't really have much of a story.

In term of background story no follower can compete with her, even frea from dargonborn.

Basically dawnguard story is evolved around her.

Frea was cool as well.

I agree that you could say that all followers are not "too bright". This probably is not their fault though. It's more Bethesda's fault for programming them the way they did. I personally think they did a reasonably good job with them though, considering the complexity of the game.

What did you expect of someone who agreed to be entombed for several centuries while the other daughter of coldspring harbor got her own level of Oblivion? Harkon never left his castle so Serana could have gone to the Imperial City and lived above ground with impunity.

If you get the Amazing Follower Tweaks mod (assuming you're on PC) then you can disable friendly spell damage.

You can find it here: http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/15524/?

Also for anyone interested, I recommend getting the latest http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/23491/?. It fixes many issues including Serana's ai, no longer does she wander around and bump into you asking "What did you need."

I've always had a love/hate relationship with Serana myself. But this patch makes her more tolerable, imo.

I have them all, yet Serana is still too annoying for me.

Especially when she raises a goat to fight armored warriors.....

or raises anything to fight a skeever.