/Even when he did reach out and say rescue Angel in Deep Down, I always felt like dramatically taking Angel back to the hotel and then disappearing was partly about him being self-righteous and proving a point to his former friends that see I'm not the jerk that you ungrateful people are all painting me as/ - Really? I mean, I see how you could see it like that but to me it was like he was trying to put what things he could to right, paying his debt to Angel and all of that, even if Angel hates him now. He did what he had to but it still wasn't really enough, of course, and afterwards it wasn't like he could stay and chat, wasn't it?
/how his friends were the ones who had betrayed him by not understanding that he had good intentions really,/ - To me it seemed more like anger and hurt at the fact that his friends never even gave him the benefit of the doubt/stopped to talk to him/hear his version of the story. Of course he failed badly and he was aware and of how badly he has been played by fate, Sahjhan and Holtz and by his own stupidity and pride, always convinced of knowing what the best course of action was. But it also strikes me as OOC for Cordy (but then season 3!Cordy feels all around very OOC to me) to be so wrapped up in her new relationship with Angel not to stop to talk with his old friend Wes so I tend to side with Wes on this one.
/we never saw much of him wondering how terrible Connor's childhood had been for example when Connor returns, it came across as being all about how Wesley had been wronged by his friends/ - Oh, yes, such a missed opportunity, what I wouldn't give for some more Connor and Wesley interaction! Instead all we got was Wes watching Angel and Connor over a railing with Lilah, Wes and Faith and Connor and Gunn hunting Angelus together, the sewers confrontation where Connor and the Jasmine loyalist are about to chop their head off before being called back by Jasmine and the episode Origin. Thank goodness for fandom. ;)
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Date: 2015-07-31 01:09 pm (UTC)/how his friends were the ones who had betrayed him by not understanding that he had good intentions really,/ - To me it seemed more like anger and hurt at the fact that his friends never even gave him the benefit of the doubt/stopped to talk to him/hear his version of the story. Of course he failed badly and he was aware and of how badly he has been played by fate, Sahjhan and Holtz and by his own stupidity and pride, always convinced of knowing what the best course of action was.
But it also strikes me as OOC for Cordy (but then season 3!Cordy feels all around very OOC to me) to be so wrapped up in her new relationship with Angel not to stop to talk with his old friend Wes so I tend to side with Wes on this one.
/we never saw much of him wondering how terrible Connor's childhood had been for example when Connor returns, it came across as being all about how Wesley had been wronged by his friends/ - Oh, yes, such a missed opportunity, what I wouldn't give for some more Connor and Wesley interaction! Instead all we got was Wes watching Angel and Connor over a railing with Lilah, Wes and Faith and Connor and Gunn hunting Angelus together, the sewers confrontation where Connor and the Jasmine loyalist are about to chop their head off before being called back by Jasmine and the episode Origin. Thank goodness for fandom. ;)