I never fell in love with any of the main cast of Angel, so it never became my show in the way that Buffy did tbh. I got into it more on my first watch as there were some great episodes and arcs, it's more now looking back that I feel like it's not a show that I want to rewatch as much as some others, mostly because the characters left me kind of hollow most of the time. I think that I liked the villains more on Ats actually lol (Faith, Dru, Darla, Lilah, Lindsey, Holland, and Illyria all kicked ass on that show)

And yeah Wesley was such a fan favourite at the time, so I always knew that I had the unpopular opinion in not really feeling it, but something about his character during that going dark arc always left me cold, even though intellectually I could appreciate that he was trying to do the right thing