You've got this habit of picking up on stuff when I've only briefly alluded to it. It's frustrating, 'cause I like people go back and read and be like "OH! So that's what that was about!"
There's a lot going on here, and only about half of the problems between the characters are the lingering ones from the show. Beyond that, they're cutting one another out, not telling each other everything, so much so that the only ones who are staying caught up on everything are the readers.
It's not so much that she's being a bad leader as it is that she's forgetting she's not the only leader anymore. She brought Xander and Buffy to Rio, not as subordinates, but as backup. For the most part, she's kind of leading the way right now, since she's the one familiar with the territory, but not giving Buffy all the info and trying to keep Xander mostly to menial operations isn't helping their cause at all.
And, of course, part of it is my own sense of timing and wanting to keep certain things mysteries for EVERYONE, readers included. I tend to be a little overly dramatic.
There's a lot going on here, and only about half of the problems between the characters are the lingering ones from the show. Beyond that, they're cutting one another out, not telling each other everything, so much so that the only ones who are staying caught up on everything are the readers.
It's not so much that she's being a bad leader as it is that she's forgetting she's not the only leader anymore. She brought Xander and Buffy to Rio, not as subordinates, but as backup. For the most part, she's kind of leading the way right now, since she's the one familiar with the territory, but not giving Buffy all the info and trying to keep Xander mostly to menial operations isn't helping their cause at all.
And, of course, part of it is my own sense of timing and wanting to keep certain things mysteries for EVERYONE, readers included. I tend to be a little overly dramatic.
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