CAT: Day Two
[I'd like to keep this spoiler-free. superplin - I expect to see some input from you! :)]
Second day of the Connor Appreciation...Time. Some really lovely discussion yesterday about How To Build A Post-Home Connor. Thank you to all those who participated ( Read more... )
Second day of the Connor Appreciation...Time. Some really lovely discussion yesterday about How To Build A Post-Home Connor. Thank you to all those who participated ( Read more... )
I guess for me, Connor most poignantly embodies the need for belonging, for home. And since he's never really known where he belongs--not deep down, anyway--he also represents alienation and despair. Life has taught him again and again that everything is conditional, circumstantial. Nothing is permanent or fixed. Not love, not home, not family.
At the end of S4, Connor was sick with despair, suicidal. So, in order to save hin, Angel bargained with W&H and got him a "real home," a "real dad," a loving family, a new life. Erased his memories of Angel and Darla, of Holtz, of everything he had experienced up to that point. And while I appreciate the beauty of Angel's sacrifice and the deep love that motivated it, I also see the other side. That Angel in a sense consigned his son to his own worst nightmare--a state of permanent alienation and unbelonging.
I guess the question is, Is it still hell if you don't know you're in it?
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