I take this: "Alisa is doing what she was instructed to do by Tobias: Tobias wants Avery to keep the inheritance. Ergo, Alisa would have no reason to blab to the press about Toby being alive. They acted as if she genuinely hated Avery and Libby, if anything they made her work harder. " that was under one of my post to talk about this. I report my answer.
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What people need to understand is that preserving the inheritance is in everyone's best interest. I genuinely don't understand this attitude of biting the hand that feeds you. Why do they act as if protecting the inheritance is something morally wrong when it's literally what ensures they can live safely, stay protected, and have access to the resources they need? Those reactions are immature and short-sighted.
When Alisa tries to prevent media scandals, keep Avery from losing the inheritance, and make sure the terms of the will are respected, they act as though she's working against them, when she's literally doing her job for their benefit. The money is theirs, after all.
And this whole argument that "she only does things the only way she knows how"—no, she does them the only way they can be done. That's simply how Alisa's job works. I honestly don't know what people expect her to do instead.
And if they had simply told her about Toby, the press never would have found out, Avery wouldn't have been cornered by the media, Sheffield wouldn't have believed Avery was Toby's daughter, he wouldn't have kidnapped her to kill her, the plane wouldn't have exploded, and Sheffield wouldn't have died.
All of that could have been avoided if they SIMPLY hadn't kept it from Alisa.
And she has never done anything that goes against Avery's interests. If anything, I think people underestimate how patient Alisa is with her. Avery is seventeen, and her behavior is understandable, but she's often difficult to work with because she refuses to attend events or complains about doing certain things. Alisa is actually remarkably understanding about it. More than once, she tells Avery that she would give her something in return if Avery chose to cooperate—which is absurd, considering it's already in Avery's own best interest to cooperate. Someone else in Alisa's position would probably have been much harsher. Instead, Alisa repeatedly acknowledges that she understands how difficult all of this is for Avery.
As for Libby, it's true that they aren't on friendly terms, but aside from Nash, many of their disagreements are also professional. It's true that Alisa isn't warm toward her, but it's equally true that Libby doesn't make Alisa's job any easier. Most of Alisa's comments are directly tied to professional matters. In fact, that's simply how Alisa speaks to everyone in a professional context—she's direct because her job isn't one where you soften the truth or sugarcoat difficult realities.
And yet she's judged far more harshly for it than anyone else.
---------this is an answer for the plane thing.
As for the characters, I understand Libby and Nash's reaction IN THAT MOMENT, because they were panicking and worried about Avery, so they weren't seeing the situation clearly. But I absolutely don't excuse the fact that Nash carried that resentment for an entire year—ignoring Alisa, refusing to leave her alone with Avery, and not even wanting to be in the same room as her. That's immature behavior and an incredibly cruel way to treat someone, especially when you know how much it would hurt Alisa because you're the most important person in her life.
And don't even get me started on Oren. There are zero excuses for him. Security was your responsibility, and the plane exploded because of your oversight, not hers. Alisa fixed the damage your incompetence caused in the only way she could, and you still had the nerve to blame her. Even worse, in The Final Gambit, you deliberately kept her in the dark about what was going on, preventing her from doing her job. And you didn't even assign her a bodyguard so she got kidnapped.
As for the scene with Grayson, it wasn't about the plane—it was about Toby. They didn't inform Alisa, the person literally responsible for risk management and public relations, because Grayson insisted they shouldn't. And his reasoning? "I didn't know where your loyalties would lie." That comment came completely out of nowhere, considering Alisa had never done a single thing to make him question her loyalty.
She literally helped raise you. She spent her entire life with you. She built her life around your family and was raised with the same sense of duty and responsibility as you, and you still had the audacity to say something like that?
He even made her cry, and Alisa was completely justified in asking, "Since when did I become the enemy?" Because really, since when? She hadn't done anything wrong.
And also he doesn't hesitate to tell her that Nash and Libby went together to look for Toby, as if he didn't know perfectly well that hearing that would hurt her.
I honestly think the way they treat her, without ever apologizing, is seriously overlooked. Worse, there are actually people who cheer because she's treated that way
