Man of constant sorrow.

[prillalar]

* Dark!Wes is back!

* Finally, we meet Wesley's father. The guy who used to lock him in a closet, remember? (Sure, he was really a robot, but Wes thought he was real, so that's good enough for us.)

* Ninja robots! They could only be cooler if they were pirates too.

* At first I liked the hinty mysterious convo between Eve and Spike in the elevator, but now I'm just annoyed. We know there's more there, for both of them. Don't taunt us.

* Loved Spike's history with Wes's dad. I should be ashamed that I giggled at "eating an orphanage" but I'm not.

* So Wes remembers his relationship with Lilah. I wonder how he thinks they got together.

* Wes's dad was dressing him down and I kept thinking -- what would he say if he knew about Justine? (Hmm -- more locking-in-closet stuff.)

* Spike's remarks about people having sex with robots were priceless.

* From the moment they pulled those guns out, I had no doubt at all that Wes would kill his father. (And I did call "his dad is a robot" early on.) I wonder if he feels cheated now. He killed his father but his father is still alive. All of the guilt, none of the profit.

* I love you, Wesley.

Comments

[rivkat.livejournal.com]

Yes, yes and yes. I think Wes's character arc is one of the best on the show, and they've succeeded in keeping him recognizably Wes even as he went from zero to hero to incredibly scary guy. Back on Buffy, he was willing to let Willow die even though he didn't like it -- willing to make the tough choices, always -- and now he's wriggling swords to torture roboguys just like he twisted the knife in that junkie last season, regardless of mindwipe.

I'm glad you mentioned Justine in the closet; that's one of my top five Buffy/Angel moments ever, when you realize that he's been fucking Lilah with Justine *right there*, and then again when you realize that his dad used to do that to him (except maybe not with the fucking, but who knows?). It's a gut punch followed by a gut punch.

[jjtaylor.livejournal.com]

Completely unrelated to your thougtful comment: I love your icon! I burst into a fit of giggles at work.

[planetalyx.livejournal.com]

I particularly dug the rage. Emptying the clip into his father. Sure, Fred was a powerful motivation, but you know he's hearing those shots ring out over and over... and over and over... All the bullets. Die, you repressed psychotic bastard, you. DIE!

[malkingrey.livejournal.com]

And that strangled noise he makes just off-screen, when he's walking back over to the edge of the roof after the shooting . . . oh, my.

[ethrosdemon.livejournal.com]

What I really like about this episode is how Angel worked through his issues with trusting Wes *and* realized everything we already knew about him being the one to *always* make the hard choice and to stick by it no matter the cost. Right is right to Wes.

This naturally sets up the whole dynamic when Wes finds out how Angel's violated all of them to save one person. (Sidebar: Angel is also a reverse // to god here, too. Angel sacrificed the world [in a way] to save his only begotten son.} I'm not spoiled, this is just the plot I want to see. Now that Angel has comes to terms, it's time for the apple cart to dump over the other way, and for Wesley to feel vindicated in his anger.

[thepouncer.livejournal.com]

I am so with the Wesley love. This episode was fantastic, in covering all the different facets of Wesley: bumbler, researcher, dupe, ruthless decisionmaker, broken man. I love him too.