Will Angel Ever Take Control of the Tower?

[Ryan]

He shouldn't need to have the chips be down before he steps up and takes charge of the situation

I agree. Angel's deferential to a fault. He can't seem to handle any big problems when Michael's not around. Angel's also really bad at being proactive (rather than reactive) and dealing with people issues. A good recent example of that is when he just ignored Riley being boozed up because she gave him some lip service. When someone's got problems big enough to get slurring drunk in the middle of the day during the zombie apocalypse it's a situation you really shouldn't ignore, triply so when they're (at the very least) a combat buddy you went through the hell of zombie ground zero at the arena with. With that kind of attitude it's lucky he didn't get shipped out. Half his squad could be walking around with PTSD and he'd be oblivious.

That being said, we can argue about the way Angel should act or just deal with the way he does act. Two big things he has going for him is he tends to make logically sound (if not always people friendly) decisions and Angel does seek advice rather than blindly dictate like Michael and especially Burt tend to do.