See, where we differ here, is I didn't get why she felt the need to retreat in the first place. It wasn't like they'd suffered major casualties. The people who were dying were people who weren't with them. That were elsewhere. Associates. Instead of protecting those people or sending someone to bring them to the main group, Buffy takes her nearest and dearest and goes and hides, leaving those poor souls in the lurch to be tortured and killed by Twangel. Alright. Good plan. The CIA does that all the time in movies.
And of course the inside man that she put with Twangel - doesn't tell her that Twangel has figured out where she is. Nor does it occur to her, after all these years of fighting more dangerous creatures than Twangel (hello, Glory) that giving up all your powers so you can hide, without you know having a defense grid in place might make you a sitting duck? There was a way around this - find a place to hide where you could at least see the enemy coming before he popped up, and oh, where you had protection so if he did pop up - you might be able to have a fighting chance.
Her mad run from Glory is S5 was better planned, and that's saying something. Heck the fight against the ubervamps was better planned.
It's not like they don't have any experience. Plus, hello, they aren't fighting vampires - they are fighting humans. It was sloppily told and I tend to be fairly lenient about these things. ;-) I'm reading a fantasy novel now - where people screw up royally in battle - but it makes sense why they did so.
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Date: 2010-09-11 08:58 pm (UTC)Good plan. The CIA does that all the time in movies.
And of course the inside man that she put with Twangel - doesn't tell her that Twangel has figured out where she is. Nor does it occur to her, after all these years of fighting more dangerous creatures than Twangel (hello, Glory) that giving up all your powers so you can hide, without you know having a defense grid in place might make you a sitting duck? There was a way around this -
find a place to hide where you could at least see the enemy coming before he popped up, and oh, where you had protection so if he did pop up - you might be able to have a fighting chance.
Her mad run from Glory is S5 was better planned, and that's saying something. Heck the fight against the ubervamps was better planned.
It's not like they don't have any experience. Plus, hello, they aren't fighting vampires - they are fighting humans. It was sloppily told and I tend to be fairly lenient about these things. ;-) I'm reading a fantasy novel now - where people screw up royally in battle - but it makes sense why they did so.