It's been mentioned several times that Joss decided to write Season 8 because he had a story he wanted to tell. Scott kind of confirms that here:
"I do think there's a story there... But I don't think that's a story that needs telling in Season Eight."
In other words: yes it's interesting and important, yes it would make a good comic book; but it's not part of the story Joss is writing. Because - the conclusion I'm coming to - Joss wants to tell one particular story and he's not letting himself get distracted too much by the million and one other possible stories in the Buffyverse.
Of course that's disappointing to the people who are hungry to know everything about 'Buffy', or to see their favourite characters get a namecheck. And it's confusing to those poor souls who need everything spelled out in a linear fashion with lots of exposition. But on the other hand, if he did try to cover every question and every story, we'd still be waiting for the end of Season 8 a hundred years from now.
As for the specific question, since I never saw Buffy's bank robbery as especially out of character for her - just exaggerated - I'm not particulaly bothered by Scott's words. Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. This is a story about what happens after Buffy became powerful, and the supernatural became public. All I really need to know about why Buffy made her decision is already there in Scott's words: "she looked at her growing army of Slayers and tried to think of a way to finance it all".
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"I do think there's a story there... But I don't think that's a story that needs telling in Season Eight."
In other words: yes it's interesting and important, yes it would make a good comic book; but it's not part of the story Joss is writing. Because - the conclusion I'm coming to - Joss wants to tell one particular story and he's not letting himself get distracted too much by the million and one other possible stories in the Buffyverse.
Of course that's disappointing to the people who are hungry to know everything about 'Buffy', or to see their favourite characters get a namecheck. And it's confusing to those poor souls who need everything spelled out in a linear fashion with lots of exposition. But on the other hand, if he did try to cover every question and every story, we'd still be waiting for the end of Season 8 a hundred years from now.
As for the specific question, since I never saw Buffy's bank robbery as especially out of character for her - just exaggerated - I'm not particulaly bothered by Scott's words. Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. This is a story about what happens after Buffy became powerful, and the supernatural became public. All I really need to know about why Buffy made her decision is already there in Scott's words: "she looked at her growing army of Slayers and tried to think of a way to finance it all".