Shattered like a glass goblin

[hazelk]

Weird day. Schools out for summer and I’m working from home. So in between counting spots on odd bits of insect viscera, elder son’s wanting the index to ‘Delia Smith’s Vegetarian Collection’ reading out loud and out in the real world it’s all live action ‘MI5/Spooks.’

Whatever.

Once upon a time there was a nice middle-class boy who went to a party where there were drugs. Being Randy Newman and not Harlan Ellison, he wrote a song rather than a story about the experience. It was covered by Three Dog Night and became a minor hit in 1970, then Tom Jones and the Stereophonics produced an almost identical version in 1999.

Coming across a copy of the 1970 single while trawling the iTunes catalogue, I was suddenly reminded of one Wesley Wyndham Pryce back in the days when he first came to Sunnydale and discovered that monsters weren’t just pictures in books. Somehow this turned into a vid about Wes and his various relationships with women. You can download it from here.

Comments

[ninerva.livejournal.com]

OK...that was FANTASTIC!!!

I love these, again you managed to pick one of my favourite songs. I loved Wes, to see him from first to last was eery though, I can't think of any character who went through as much transformation as he did (well I suppose Fred/Illyria, but that doesn't count). He really is one of the definitive Jossverse characters "what? Do you think he's been through enough? I don't!" It wasn't just his love-life that was tragic.

Well done...now go do some more!!! *grin* :-)

[aycheb.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

I was very taken by your comparing of Wesley with Brutus in one of the S5 reviews a while back. Because by then I can see why despite his flaws he’d be the kind of man that other man might call the noblest Roman. I can really see Angel thinking that. It’s a strength he has, to always do the hardest thing and yet a weakness, It’s as if he were one of those people who if you ask them for directions their answer isn’t just random it’s always wrong. Somewhere along the line he’s internalised that emotions and instincts can’t be trusted. And man does he suffer. I thought it was so tragic that on the last day in NFA he had nothing he wanted, no desire to fulfill. Like his description of Angel in To Shanshu. For that alone I could almost forgive him the designer stubble phase.

[ninerva.livejournal.com]

On the last day in NFA he did exactly what he knew was needed. They needed Illyria on top form, so he took care of that. He always defined himself as someone who would do what was needed, despite the personal cost. Once 'what was needed' was a decision that was taken by someone else, his Father, the Watchers Council (hence trying to capture Faith in BtVS), but without that he had to decide for himself. He was however as bad as Angel at taking decisions collectively. Perhaps his ultimate desire was to be that man. Very complex character!

I had a love/hate relationship with the stubble, but am I wrong to think he was very sexy when he started playing with guns? I think the psycho-analysis needed to figure that out would be beyond my meagre budget. :-)

[aycheb.livejournal.com]

Feeling kind of antsy about RL guns right now. Apparently the Sun was running the headline "One Down Three To Go." TV guns? I thought it was cool in that S1 episode when he shot the gas cannister Angel threw. I think that may have been the first time Wes was ever really competent at something. I like me some competent.