frelling_tralk

Usually I like the more morally ambiguous characters as well, I think that Wesley was the one case where I preferred the lighter and more bumbling version of a character! That was back when Internet was really slow and I used to read spoilers from the U.S. on what was happening on Buffy and Angel, and on the page I always took Wesley's side, so when I watched it myself for the first time I was surprised at how unsympathetic I found him. From what I remember (it's been a while since I watched Ats now!), he came across as pretty surly and self-indulgent in how he would wallow in the angst and how much Angels Investigations had wronged him. And, even though I did like his relationship with Lilah, in retrospect they were also pretty self-important in all their discussions on how Judas committed the worst sin of all in betrayal. It's funny that Buffy is the character that you hear more about her being whiny and self-important, yet a lot of the time Ats had nothing but excess man pain with Angel and Wesley over the ~burdens~ that they carried