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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WizarDru" data-source="post: 851393" data-attributes="member: 151">Or, you could drop the sexual politics angle, and look at it from a purely pragmatic storytelling position: it's not good storytelling, period.  There would be little entertainment value out of having Buffy call the Initiative (or whatever it calls itself these days) and drop a pony nuke on the farmhouse.  It would not only defeat the purpose of the story, it would be terribly unsatisfying, not fit the mileu and introduce a host of production issues.As for specific reasons, there are tons:Why doesn't the First just bomb Buffy & the Potentials?<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">It can't DO anything, per se.  It can threaten, cajole and terrify, but at the end of the day, it needs to convince others to do it's bidding.  CALEB blew up the watchers at the First's behest.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">All of the agents that the First has are all patently crazy and obviously not terribly reliable.  Caleb destroyed the watcher headquarters months ago, but only just now got to Sunnydale...and he didn't destroy all the watchers, just most of them.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">As John Crichton mentioned, the First Evil wants suffering and pain inflicted on his enemies.  Caleb could have done more physical damage, but he's a psychopath, not just a killer.  He resembles his mistress.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The First is somehow tied up with the Slayer and the potentials, and killing them directly may not be an option.  Especially since it's obvious that both groups haven't found them all, yet.  The First may be waiting until they're all gathered together, and then will kill them all en masse.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">It's not nearly as easy to come at the scoobs as it appears...Warren notwithstanding.  The slayer alone has been killed...but keeping her dead isn't nearly as easy. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> </li> </ul>So why not doesn't Buffy have the Initiative bomb the Winery?<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Buffy has already pulled in one minor favor, and it's questionable that the Initiative is willing to help a second time</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">If they WERE to bomb the winery, there's no guarantee that they'd actually get anyone.  It was a pretty obvious trap, from start to finish.  The bringers let themselves be followed, so that Caleb could wail on the scoobs, bigtime.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Even if they killed every single servant of the First, that wouldn't bother it in the least</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The initiative has, itself, shown that the solution can be as bad as the problem.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Conventional weapons have rarely worked against demons or their ilk.  Note how the initiative themselves used some freaky 'ghost-busting' equipment to deal even with common vamps, let alone the weirder varieties.  It's just the way the Buffyverse works.</li> </ul></blockquote>

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