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.
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Date: 2005-07-23 04:00 pm (UTC)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.