You have this insane villain after you - that you know nothing about and appears to know everything about you. Wouldn't it make sense to get intell on him? (Which she does try to do with Riley, but doesn't appear to amount to anything). Or if you are going to hide, to come up with a way of defending yourself? When the Retreat arc was still in progress I asked people who were ridiculing Buffy's actions in Tibet and going there in the first place to come up with something better she could have done. Given that they'd already tried defending themselves by all possible magical and non-magcial means and still the demons kept on coming and the girls kept dying throughout the first issue. They'd tried researching, sending in Riley and even risking their lives in Sephrilian's lair and found nothing. I never did get a satisfactory answer, they all rang along the lines of "more fighting or research only this time it would work. Or that Buffy would use her associate's vast experience in PR and powerful contacts to persuade a population to support them that until recently had refused to believe demons existed before switching to the marginally less comforting rationalisation that they existed but were harmless. Which even if had worked wouldf only have solved the human part of the equation and at that point their attackers were largely demons who had every reason to hate them. If fight isn't working then flight is the only alternative and that only works is your pursuers can't find you. If they can find you by virtue of your magic then hiding means ditching the magic.
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Date: 2010-09-11 08:14 pm (UTC)When the Retreat arc was still in progress I asked people who were ridiculing Buffy's actions in Tibet and going there in the first place to come up with something better she could have done. Given that they'd already tried defending themselves by all possible magical and non-magcial means and still the demons kept on coming and the girls kept dying throughout the first issue. They'd tried researching, sending in Riley and even risking their lives in Sephrilian's lair and found nothing. I never did get a satisfactory answer, they all rang along the lines of "more fighting or research only this time it would work. Or that Buffy would use her associate's vast experience in PR and powerful contacts to persuade a population to support them that until recently had refused to believe demons existed before switching to the marginally less comforting rationalisation that they existed but were harmless. Which even if had worked wouldf only have solved the human part of the equation and at that point their attackers were largely demons who had every reason to hate them. If fight isn't working then flight is the only alternative and that only works is your pursuers can't find you. If they can find you by virtue of your magic then hiding means ditching the magic.