In the middle of Beauty and the Beast, Wolf!Oz had to be locked in a cage and closely watched by a slayer for the entire night. The gang was investigating to see if Oz was a murderer to then, further evaluate further action to protect the community from Oz in anything ranging from shame (certainly already from Cordelia) to tranquing Wolf!Oz. Meanwhile, Buffy just locked feral!Angel with some ultimately failed chains and left feral!Angel unguarded for large portions of the day. Angel was never treated like a suspect. Instead for a time, all suspect shaming was pointed directly at Oz which humiliated Oz even though Buffy knew of another viable suspect.
So, Buffy absolutely betrayed the group and especially, Giles. Ask Giles in Revelations, I'm sure he'd back me up that he was betrayed. Buffy did it with every intention of protecting Angel. That does make her equitable with Wesley. As opposed to Giles in Helpless who betrayed Buffy to save his career and betrayed Buffy to the point of putting her in lethal danger.
Wesley had lots of good reasons for not approaching the group. First, Wesley lost his voice and he couldn't really talk until the last three eps of S3 which I think represents a week in real time. Angel said before smothering Wesley that he knows that Wesley took Connor to save Connor's life....but that doesn't matter since Angel still felt that he can murder Wesley. Then when Wesley still couldn't talk, Fred came by to the hospital and re-iterated that they knew that Wesley took Connor with good intentions but Wesley can't come by the hotel or Angel will finish what he started and murder Wesley which is an unbelievably credible threat. And Fred tearfullly begged Wesley to stay away or Angel will kill him. Then when Gunn came to ask for Fred's cure, Gunn basically said that he doesn't want to hear anything from Wesley other than Fred's cure. "Look, I don't have time to get into it with you. I don't even wanna be here."
So unlike Giles, Wesley physically couldn't say his side of the story at first, he was barred from coming to the Hyperion to explain on penalty of murder, and he had three members of the team say that his side of the story is meaningless. I suppose that Wesley could have opened up sometime in S4, but IMO, Wesley had every reason to believe that no one in AI (save Fred) wanted to hear from him on a personal level and he should just work with them to defeat the apocalyptic threats in a very cold peace. That is until Angel laundered Wesley's brain of all of it at the end of S4.
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Date: 2015-02-11 09:00 pm (UTC)In the middle of Beauty and the Beast, Wolf!Oz had to be locked in a cage and closely watched by a slayer for the entire night. The gang was investigating to see if Oz was a murderer to then, further evaluate further action to protect the community from Oz in anything ranging from shame (certainly already from Cordelia) to tranquing Wolf!Oz. Meanwhile, Buffy just locked feral!Angel with some ultimately failed chains and left feral!Angel unguarded for large portions of the day. Angel was never treated like a suspect. Instead for a time, all suspect shaming was pointed directly at Oz which humiliated Oz even though Buffy knew of another viable suspect.
So, Buffy absolutely betrayed the group and especially, Giles. Ask Giles in Revelations, I'm sure he'd back me up that he was betrayed. Buffy did it with every intention of protecting Angel. That does make her equitable with Wesley. As opposed to Giles in Helpless who betrayed Buffy to save his career and betrayed Buffy to the point of putting her in lethal danger.
Wesley had lots of good reasons for not approaching the group. First, Wesley lost his voice and he couldn't really talk until the last three eps of S3 which I think represents a week in real time. Angel said before smothering Wesley that he knows that Wesley took Connor to save Connor's life....but that doesn't matter since Angel still felt that he can murder Wesley. Then when Wesley still couldn't talk, Fred came by to the hospital and re-iterated that they knew that Wesley took Connor with good intentions but Wesley can't come by the hotel or Angel will finish what he started and murder Wesley which is an unbelievably credible threat. And Fred tearfullly begged Wesley to stay away or Angel will kill him. Then when Gunn came to ask for Fred's cure, Gunn basically said that he doesn't want to hear anything from Wesley other than Fred's cure. "Look, I don't have time to get into
it with you. I don't even wanna be here."
So unlike Giles, Wesley physically couldn't say his side of the story at first, he was barred from coming to the Hyperion to explain on penalty of murder, and he had three members of the team say that his side of the story is meaningless. I suppose that Wesley could have opened up sometime in S4, but IMO, Wesley had every reason to believe that no one in AI (save Fred) wanted to hear from him on a personal level and he should just work with them to defeat the apocalyptic threats in a very cold peace. That is until Angel laundered Wesley's brain of all of it at the end of S4.