Question Why Buffy never moved on from Sunnydale after "Blood ties"?

[crazy chicklet]

I mean,
Seriously why?
Dawn finally knows,She is not 14 years old child but a energy who can destroy the whole universe.And There is a insane God after her.I mean,Glory can kill your loved ones.You know that.

Same thing goes for Ben;
Why He never moved out after He finds out the identity of The Key? When He clearly knows,Glory can find The Key.

 

[Plasma]

They did try to run away.

In Spiral, Buffy and co. decide it isn’t worth trying to fight Glory and all hop on an RV with Spike.

The ancient order (whose name I totally forgot 😬) stopped them and got them all caught up in the abandoned gas station. Presumably had they left earlier, the same situation would have happened eventually.

Ben also didn’t leave because for him, it really doesn’t matter if he does or doesn’t. Glory’s groveling henchgoblins could have easily just kept him in place every day until Glory took over. Plus, when everyone’s backs were against the wall at the end of S5, Ben just gave into Glory and was willing to sacrifice Dawn to save himself. Not exactly the most selfless guy.

 

[crazy chicklet]

They did try to run away.

But after Glory KNOWS who The Key is.

Wouldn't it be safer running before She can find?

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Plus, when everyone’s backs were against the wall at the end of S5, Ben just gave into Glory and was willing to sacrifice Dawn to save himself

You do remember he was influenced by Glory?Right?
Otherwise Why would he should care?Dawn is not even a real person and a stranger

 

[Cohen]

But after Glory KNOWS who The Key is.

Wouldn't it be safer running before She can find?

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You do remember he was influenced by Glory?Right?
Otherwise Why would he should care?Dawn is not even a real person

Wouldn't Glory have just followed them? Or sent her minions to find and follow them? At that point, there was no immediate threat, and they didn't really know enough about the ritual to know it was a "one time" thing. (I haven't gotten to that point in my rewatch, so I can't quite remember when they learn about the ritual, but I thought it was pretty late into the season). Buffy has also never been a runner. She has never retreated unless it was absolutely necessary.

 

[crazy chicklet]

Wouldn't Glory have just followed them? Or sent her minions to find and follow them?

I am pretty sure,Glory doesn't know that Scoobies knows She is a God from a Hell Dimension.

 

[spikenbuffy]

I think it's only in Spiral that Dawn & Buffy learnt why & what Glory wanted & the danger of the key being at a certain place at a certain time.

 

[crazy chicklet]

think it's only in Spiral that Dawn & Buffy learnt why & what Glory wanted & the danger of the key being at a certain place at a certain time.

But
Buffy already knows How powerful, sadistic,insane and dangerous Glory is?

Its easy to think she does not want The Key because of some tea party

 

[burrunjor]

I think that a later episode of season 5 should have had Buffy and co travel to LA for a bit for protection, go on an adventure with Angel on his own show, and then the next one could be Glory following the knights there and there being a big fight in the hotel with Angel investigations and the Scooby's taking on Glory who obviously whoops them all and takes Dawn back to Sunnydale.

Would have made an awesome sequence and crossover. I'd have loved a Cordy/Xander reunion, Wesley and Giles and of course Spike and Angel.

 

[VampireSlayer07]

But after Glory KNOWS who The Key is.

Wouldn't it be safer running before She can find?

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You do remember he was influenced by Glory?Right?
Otherwise Why would he should care?Dawn is not even a real person and a stranger

Ben was influenced by Glory, not controlled. He could have chosen to end his life to stop Glory at anytime. He didn't. He chose to go along with the Dawn sacrifice. Granted yes she is a stranger (sorry by this point she is very much a person) but if he was a good man like some say he would not have chosen to sacrifice her. Especially since he has no idea what would have become of himself if she had succeeded. He still could have ended up not existing and in the process screwed over the world.

I think Buffy chose to stay in Sunnydale as long as she could because not only is running not her style (and how do you run from a hell god?) but also because Sunnydale needed a slayer. And during a lot of that was also what was happening with their mother.

 

[famicommander]

Buffy is the Slayer and Glory is very obviously a gigantic threat to all innocent lives. Buffy isn't just going to let her do whatever she wants.

It's like asking why Batman doesn't just let the Joker spread chaos all over Gotham.

 

[NoShip]

Running Away WORKED!!!
If Buffy had not called Ben, then, Glory would not have found Dawn. Period.

Sometimes, running away is the beat plan. Here, even with the Knights of Byzantium spearing Giles, there is no indication the 'flee in the RV' plan would have been anything but successful if Buffy had called a different doctor.

Glory was all about magic, technology was beneath her, so, Buffy could have called 911 & hospitalized Giles & there is no indication Glory would have found out or had any way to find out. The local constabulary asking questions about Giles' wound would have been a different issue.....

 

[NoShip]

@NotASlayer - I LOVE that line. So true. For so many episodes!!!

 

[famicommander]

Running Away WORKED!!!
If Buffy had not called Ben, then, Glory would not have found Dawn. Period.

Sometimes, running away is the beat plan. Here, even with the Knights of Byzantium spearing Giles, there is no indication the 'flee in the RV' plan would have been anything but successful if Buffy had called a different doctor.

Glory was all about magic, technology was beneath her, so, Buffy could have called 911 & hospitalized Giles & there is no indication Glory would have found out or had any way to find out. The local constabulary asking questions about Giles' wound would have been a different issue.....

Glory would just lure Buffy to wherever she was by slaughtering countless innocents. There's no way Buffy would just let random people get killed to save herself.

 

[NoShip]

Glory would just lure Buffy to wherever she was by slaughtering countless innocents. There's no way Buffy would just let random people get killed to save herself.

I don't know about that. How many hundreds of thousands were dying each year outside of Sunnydale? Buffy & Faith & Kendra never seemed to have a problem with that.

Also, how many Vampires or Demons did Buffy just run out of town to continue their murderous lifestyles elsewhere? BTVS was always rather loose with the morality. It seemed more episode based than permanent.