Yeah. For me it's just a question of what did he expect was going to happen? They were gonna thank him? Yeah, he thought he was doing the right thing, but I can't see how anyone would see the result being different even if it went as planned.
Given AI's culture of bragging about how they help the helpless and they're here to save souls to the tune that Wesley had to forgive Faith for brutally torturing him for hours the day after and Wesley/Cordelia/Gunn forgave Angel for abandoning them and the mission for no good reason, I think Wesley expected some forgiveness or a willingness to hear his side of the story or to confirm that he was discharged from the hospital safely. Or for Angel to keep his bullshit phoney promises and NOT try to kill yet another human being just because he felt like it or if Angel did so, for the gang to react like normal human beings who come out against against OTT brutal vengeance against again, helpless, people in their hospital beds.
Moreover, AI managed to ask and accept favors from Wesley with zero grace or pout and refuse to ask for his help in a manner that can only be described as depraved indifference to human life. Like how, Gunn asked Wesley for his expertise to cure Fred, after again, Gunn showed that he gives zero fucks if Wesley lives or dies or if Angel tries to murder Wesley or heck, how Wesley copes with a very painful, tragic mistake. However, Gunn can't just ask for Wesley's expertise. He has to victim-speech about how he doesn't even want to be Wesley's apartment and how this is all beneath him. Or how AI was cool with leaving a tear to a hell dimension wide-open to harm people from Sluk-related threats on up before asking their ex-researcher for help. Or Gunn was more OK with leaving Angel and Cordelia in whatever peril all summer and letting their business go to pot without half the members before asking Wesley for his help. And then, Fred and Gunn can't just graciously accept Wesley's rescue of Angel. They have bitch about how Wesley wasn't giving them reports of the rescue mission even though Gunn and Fred were the ones who decided to cut Wesley out of their lives.
So, I really got why Wesley felt unfairly abandoned and treated like crap. I actually thought he was pretty restrained in his resentment. He had that one sole line to describe the whole team's really deplorable treatment of him.
Also I cringe at his whole chivalry act in S4 regarding Lilah.
What "act"? You mean, how he actually dove into W&H offices when he knew that the Beast was at large and murdering everyone there to rescue Lilah? Or how he hoped that she'd stop being evil and ordering murders and apocalypses and have some better future than eternity of hell?
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Given AI's culture of bragging about how they help the helpless and they're here to save souls to the tune that Wesley had to forgive Faith for brutally torturing him for hours the day after and Wesley/Cordelia/Gunn forgave Angel for abandoning them and the mission for no good reason, I think Wesley expected some forgiveness or a willingness to hear his side of the story or to confirm that he was discharged from the hospital safely. Or for Angel to keep his bullshit phoney promises and NOT try to kill yet another human being just because he felt like it or if Angel did so, for the gang to react like normal human beings who come out against against OTT brutal vengeance against again, helpless, people in their hospital beds.
Moreover, AI managed to ask and accept favors from Wesley with zero grace or pout and refuse to ask for his help in a manner that can only be described as depraved indifference to human life. Like how, Gunn asked Wesley for his expertise to cure Fred, after again, Gunn showed that he gives zero fucks if Wesley lives or dies or if Angel tries to murder Wesley or heck, how Wesley copes with a very painful, tragic mistake. However, Gunn can't just ask for Wesley's expertise. He has to victim-speech about how he doesn't even want to be Wesley's apartment and how this is all beneath him. Or how AI was cool with leaving a tear to a hell dimension wide-open to harm people from Sluk-related threats on up before asking their ex-researcher for help. Or Gunn was more OK with leaving Angel and Cordelia in whatever peril all summer and letting their business go to pot without half the members before asking Wesley for his help. And then, Fred and Gunn can't just graciously accept Wesley's rescue of Angel. They have bitch about how Wesley wasn't giving them reports of the rescue mission even though Gunn and Fred were the ones who decided to cut Wesley out of their lives.
So, I really got why Wesley felt unfairly abandoned and treated like crap. I actually thought he was pretty restrained in his resentment. He had that one sole line to describe the whole team's really deplorable treatment of him.
Also I cringe at his whole chivalry act in S4 regarding Lilah.
What "act"? You mean, how he actually dove into W&H offices when he knew that the Beast was at large and murdering everyone there to rescue Lilah? Or how he hoped that she'd stop being evil and ordering murders and apocalypses and have some better future than eternity of hell?
Man, what a jerk...