And the mind-wipe, while not *easy* for Angel, has no real consequences for anyone other than Angel.
I'm bored at work today, so I'm reading people's old LJ entries. So you may already know this, Scroll, but I'm going to go into my Wesley!Continuity rant anyway because it's my *hot button issue*. Or actually, it's the the hot button issue I can actually think about. If I think about Connor being gone, I will possibly implode.
Anyway. The mind-wipe effects Wesley's character continuity completely and has MAJOR consequences for him as a character.
In Season 3, Wesley went through one of the most emotionally wrenching trials of his life. In an attempt to prevent Angel from killing his own son, he took Connor away. Although he was well-intentioned, this action lead to a chain of events that took Wesley into darkness.
Holtz got his hands on Connor and took him into a hell dimension. Wesley got his throat cut. Angel found himself unable to forgive Wesley, and Angel's friends kept their distance as well. The only hand reaching out to Wesley was the duplicitious hand of an enemy, and Wesley took that hand for a while. He flirted with Lilah and with the darkness within, tested his mettle against it, got in touch with his own inner tough-guy and came through the tunnel to the other side.
Now all of that is in danger of being forgotten. Re-written. Because the event that triggered it all--the kidnapping of Angel's baby--has been forgotten. "Connor who?" Fred says at the end of Home.
How can Wesley make sense of the character development he's been through in the last year and a half if he doesn't remember Connor? How can ME (Mutant Enemy, the Angel writers) keep Wesley's character integrity in tact if they have to rewrite the events of Seasons 3 and 4 to "write Connor out"?
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Tue, May. 20th, 2003 03:39 pm (UTC)I'm bored at work today, so I'm reading people's old LJ entries. So you may already know this, Scroll, but I'm going to go into my Wesley!Continuity rant anyway because it's my *hot button issue*. Or actually, it's the the hot button issue I can actually think about. If I think about Connor being gone, I will possibly implode.
Anyway. The mind-wipe effects Wesley's character continuity completely and has MAJOR consequences for him as a character.
In Season 3, Wesley went through one of the most emotionally wrenching trials of his life. In an attempt to prevent Angel from killing his own son, he took Connor away. Although he was well-intentioned, this action lead to a chain of events that took Wesley into darkness.
Holtz got his hands on Connor and took him into a hell dimension. Wesley got his throat cut. Angel found himself unable to forgive Wesley, and Angel's friends kept their distance as well. The only hand reaching out to Wesley was the duplicitious hand of an enemy, and Wesley took that hand for a while. He flirted with Lilah and with the darkness within, tested his mettle against it, got in touch with his own inner tough-guy and came through the tunnel to the other side.
Now all of that is in danger of being forgotten. Re-written. Because the event that triggered it all--the kidnapping of Angel's baby--has been forgotten. "Connor who?" Fred says at the end of Home.
How can Wesley make sense of the character development he's been through in the last year and a half if he doesn't remember Connor? How can ME (Mutant Enemy, the Angel writers) keep Wesley's character integrity in tact if they have to rewrite the events of Seasons 3 and 4 to "write Connor out"?