It's interesting though that in Origin (I think it was Origin or something's window?) where Wes unravels with Illyria's help Angel's deal with WRH, aka the memory wipe - he thrusts those negative memories at Connor again. Except Connor, due to what Angel had done, can handle them. He has the good memories to counter-act them. Connor has been reset and rewritten to a degree that he can love Angel and accept him. He's the only character who survived the memory wipe in this fashion. The others...not so much. Although it has been successfully argued that they may have ended up going down this road regardless of Angel's deal with WRH. Fred seemed on the fence. Not sure what they would have done if the memory wipe hadn't occurred.
Wes, being Wes, leaps to the conclusion that things would have been better - that Fred would not have died, but there's no evidence of that. He also believes he'd be different - if anything, he may have been less likely to fall in love with Fred again - since he sort of disassociated himself from her at the end of S4, and if anything was harboring feelings for Lilah, who had died in part because of him. His guilt regarding Lilah - was standing between him and Fred. If it weren't for the memory wipe - he may have hung onto that. Note - he doesn't appear to remember Lilah in S5. (Doylist again? They couldn't get the actress - she'd jumped to another series. So they had to create a new character - Eve to take Lilah's place.)
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Date: 2014-10-12 10:30 pm (UTC)It's interesting though that in Origin (I think it was Origin or something's window?) where Wes unravels with Illyria's help Angel's deal with WRH, aka the memory wipe - he thrusts those negative memories at Connor again. Except Connor, due to what Angel had done, can handle them.
He has the good memories to counter-act them. Connor has been reset and rewritten to a degree that he can love Angel and accept him. He's the only character who survived the memory wipe in this fashion. The others...not so much. Although it has been successfully argued that they may have ended up going down this road regardless of Angel's deal with WRH. Fred seemed on the fence. Not sure what they would have done if the memory wipe hadn't occurred.
Wes, being Wes, leaps to the conclusion that things would have been better - that Fred would not have died, but there's no evidence of that.
He also believes he'd be different - if anything, he may have been less likely to fall in love with Fred again - since he sort of disassociated himself from her at the end of S4, and if anything was harboring feelings for Lilah, who had died in part because of him. His guilt regarding Lilah - was standing between him and Fred. If it weren't for the memory wipe - he may have hung onto that. Note - he doesn't appear to remember Lilah in S5. (Doylist again? They couldn't get the actress - she'd jumped to another series. So they had to create a new character - Eve to take Lilah's place.)