I am disturbed by the male leadership in the comics as well. However, I'm not sure that this is actually intended to be an ideal situation. We have already had hints dropped that Andrew was responsible for some kind of catastrophic failure through tactical naivety and irresponsibility, and his dismissal of firearms here is flatly contradicted by the use of guns by Buffy and her team in the first issue.
I would personally guess that, despite the problems it causes for the Lineage episode of Angel S5, we're meant to be seeing that the First's crew really were completely effective in massacring every person even tangentially associated with the WC except Giles (my personal fanon is still that Giles was being kept as potentially corruptible into a Caleb-replacement if one became necessary). And that all potentials considered too old to be activated became Watchers and were massacred, which explains who to my surprise and disappointment we're seeing all the Slayers as very young women. So we really are seeing an extremely new and inexperienced organisation in which the male Scoobies and semi-Scoobies have been pulled into leadership positions along with Buffy and Willow because they're the only people with experience, which works on a logistical level even if it fucks up the feminist metaphor.
Now what I'm worried about is whether Joss realises this about the feminist metaphor and will show things being corrected, or whether he doesn't realise it and thinks this is an ideal, as a result of the rather juvenile "never trust anyone who looks over thirty or organisations of more than four people" attitudes that crept into late Buffy and Angel and messed up the politics and plausibility of Firefly even more badly in the cinema.
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Date: 2007-04-07 10:23 am (UTC)I would personally guess that, despite the problems it causes for the Lineage episode of Angel S5, we're meant to be seeing that the First's crew really were completely effective in massacring every person even tangentially associated with the WC except Giles (my personal fanon is still that Giles was being kept as potentially corruptible into a Caleb-replacement if one became necessary). And that all potentials considered too old to be activated became Watchers and were massacred, which explains who to my surprise and disappointment we're seeing all the Slayers as very young women. So we really are seeing an extremely new and inexperienced organisation in which the male Scoobies and semi-Scoobies have been pulled into leadership positions along with Buffy and Willow because they're the only people with experience, which works on a logistical level even if it fucks up the feminist metaphor.
Now what I'm worried about is whether Joss realises this about the feminist metaphor and will show things being corrected, or whether he doesn't realise it and thinks this is an ideal, as a result of the rather juvenile "never trust anyone who looks over thirty or organisations of more than four people" attitudes that crept into late Buffy and Angel and messed up the politics and plausibility of Firefly even more badly in the cinema.