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> 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.
>>
>> >> 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.
>>
>> > 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.
>>
>> 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.
Oh, yeah. That's a huge line. The illusions they held of each other by
itself show they weren't the perfect couple imagined by everybody.
(Except
maybe Wesley.)
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