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Date Posted: 16:57:14 11/15/05 Tue
Author: fresne
Subject: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead
In reply to: manwitch 's message, "I was always very frustrated with Mister Wesley" on 06:11:11 11/14/05 Mon

Interesting discussion, and all with the lively.

Normally, I'd try to say something elegant, but um...other free time writing obligations own my life.

So, I will say, it's interesting that I was just discussing Angel (well, and other fandom shows that have irritated me at one time or another) with my housemate. Oddly, Wesley was the one character who I put forward as never irritating me. Well, and Illyria, damn I love her dialog. But as to Wesley, I suppose its because once he transitioned from BtVS to AtS, I understood him.

When all is said and done, I'm a head, not a heart or a gut sort of person. I think and overthink. And when the impulse is to introversion, its so easy for me to understand why you don't ask for help. The words won't emerge, like some broken winged bird beating in the throat. And because living the head makes it easy to be caught in the quagmire, and it's hard to tell the difference when you should or shouldn't step (after all I've read Hamlet, I know how that goes) you tend to force yourself to act. It may not be the correct decision, but there is some comfort in making a decision. Right or wrong.

I've always tended to think that Wesley's flaw is not that he lives in his head (it takes all types to fill the world), but that he is in love with the hard choices. There is a certain hubris to it. A hubris that I understand therefore am inclined to forgive.

I agree Xander wouldn't have made the decision that Wesley did, but, and this is my own take, Xander is more heart than head, and not so enamored of making the hard decisions.

The parallel would seem more to fall to with Willow, but her essential issues insecurities seemed to tend toward wanting to having an audience to support her. More of a, "I'm making the right decision, tell me I'm making the right decision." than, "I have decided, if I tell anyone I may lose the ability to do what I have decided to do."

With the general caveat, of just my opinion, etcetera, etcetera.

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