On Mar 25, 1:17 am, "One Bit Shy" <O...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "Arbitrar Of Quality" <tsm...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > On Mar 20, 12:20 am, "One Bit Shy" <O...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >> "Arbitrar Of Quality" <tsm...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >> > Meanwhile, Acker gets a good chance to
> >> > show off her versatility - and Fred's - as she gets a chance to pay
> >> > back the bastard who ruined her life. Wesley comes off very well
as
> >> > Fred's matter-of-fact enabler, aware of the consequences but
leaving
> >> > her to make the decisions.
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> >> He comes off well? Hmmm. I'd say that he certainly played to Fred's
> >> mood
> >> and desires. To the extent that's respectful of her free will is to
the
> >> same extent that he's enabling her poor decisions. Wesley is walking
> >> some
> >> tricky moral and ethical ground here. That matter of fact balancing
of
> >> consequences (which comes off more as token acknowledgment so that it
can
> >> be
> >> dismissed) looks an awful lot like helping to bring Fred down to his
> >> level
> >> of making dubious (and brutal) hard decisions. Meanwhile, it sure is
> >> convenient for him that it's the way back into Fred's good graces.
(At
> >> least seemingly.) Aside from still having a thing for, she had shut
the
> >> door on him at least as hard as had Angel. And, well, he's performed
his
> >> penance to Angel. Fred's the obstacle.
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> > Yeah, it does sound self-serving when you put it that way, doesn't
> > it? Thing is, if given the choice between Gunn's ultimately
> > patronizing attitude and Wesley's twisted Watcher routine, one can see
> > why Fred would prefer the help of someone who understands what she's
> > going through and what she's capable of. His attempt to warn her
> > about what she's getting into is well taken, even if it's token.
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> Oh, sure. And her motives weren't all that clean either. She wanted
> somebody to help her murder a guy. She doesn't think Gunn is up to
that.
> But she thinks Wesley is. In context, that's not exactly a compliment
to
> Wesley.
If all else fails, though, he can make himself indispensible to her.
Even if it excludes him from being with her theoretically, she's still
coming to him for stuff that he can do and Gunn can't.
Meanwhile, finally caught a bit of (super)symmetry for our doomed
couple that's been drifting under my radar. "Charles doesn't have it
in him. It's part of what I love about him." My lover isn't made to
go to the murderous places that I need to sometimes.
-AOQ
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