nothing even resembling an organized post. just contrarianism.
The Wessay may get finished some day after all. I don't know what possessed me to re-watch AtS S3, but I went for it and am now sucked into the first few episodes of S4 but S3 is pretty brilliant too. Obviously my huge pro-Wes bias is below! locked because it got a little acerbic and ranty, so, fair warning.
( love can be a terrible thing )
( love can be a terrible thing )
-I always read Wes approaching Holtz as sort of... reconnaissance and a warning to Holtz to back off
I like it!
Fred and Gunn shouldn't have taken sides. And I was disappointed that Cordy flat out refused to even see Wes and get his side of the story.
Yeah. And it was one thing to stay with Angel, and Fred in particular does at least give him the time of day, but quite another for Gunn and Cordelia not to think about it from Wesley's perspective, at all, ever. I had my throat cut and all my friends abandoned me is...actually a legit reason to be a little cranky. IMO.
What a departure from Angel's epiphany at the end of S2 (which I know you take issue with as well, but it resonated for me). It shouldn't be about DESTINY and how speshul you are--it should be about doing the right thing because it's the right thing to do. Sometimes without reward or recognition.
I mean, this is kind of why I take issue with Epiphany. I agree with Angel that good is worth doing whether or not there is a reward (I'm not so wild about THERE ARE NO REWARDS, BECAUSE I HAVEN'T GOTTEN MINE YET but there's some value there, of course), but I don't like it within the show precisely because that beautiful philosophical statement is completely undercut for so much of the show. It's not just forgotten about, it's constantly denied, and I don't like that.
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lolol, I rant so much about this in my Wessay. (Which will NEVER BE FINISHED.) People will be cowed.
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