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Feb 7th - why buffy kicks olivia pope's ass

There are a lot of kick-ass women on tv, but my top two contenders are buffy summers and olivia pope. Xena doesn't count because she was stronger than 50 men combined, plus she probably killed baddies in the midst of being born. Buffy and olivia have a lot in common; buffy slays vampires and olivia saves lives from being victimised by scums of the american earth. Buffy has her scooby gang, olivia has her warriors. They are both very loyal to the families they get to pick.
However, olivia will never be as kick-ass as buffy. She fails because she won't make herself stop loving president grant.
Buffy has never made loving a dude the wrong choice, or let it define her person. She left angel when he became angelus. She was with riley because he was good and was good for her. Even when she had that secret affair with spike, it didn't feel wrong. She even made him want to be better.
Allow me this opportunity to share one of my favorite banter between buffy and spike:

Buffy: spike! What are you doing here? In 5 words or less (after she had punched him)
Spike: (holding out fingers) out... for... a... walk... bitch.
(I love you spike)

Fitz grant is the most douchiest wussiest weakiest sorriest empty shell of a man i have ever seen on tv and for the life of me i cannot fathom why smart, confident, most able olivia goes back to him time and time again. She could have felicity's delicious scott foley and still, she turns away from that and goes back to his royal jerkiest. I just don't get it.

Tonight i saw olivia has been captured and held against her will as a pawn for the president to declare war.
If it were buffy she would have let herself get caught, be tortured, and then kill/maim/escape before the captors could say "hey go get today's paper; we're gonna stream the video of her talking and holding it so that the people we are showing it to knows we totes mean business."

And those are whys olivia pope will never be as kick-ass as buffy the vampire slayer.