First, I have to get this out of the way, because so many people "reacted" to the Angel bit emotionally, without reading the post carefully.
I interpreted Home a bit differently than you and others did. The thrust of my post above was how people interpret things differently and how cool that is. And I was underlining that this was an opinion based on a trigger regarding memory wiping. I have issues with that. I think I made that clear? Perhaps not?
[ie: Reminding you of your post about how :"Your friends are watching a different tv show than you are and that's okay."]
To clarify on Angel - I read it from a Macro level or big picture level not a micro or personal level. From the big picture level he wiped memories, changed the world and WRH told him that is what would happen. As Wes relates in Orion's Window - Fred may not have died, they may have gone a different path...if they still remembered.
Our memories are what we are. They define us. When Angel removed those memories from everyone, he changed who they were, what decisions they'd make. It is unclear whether the group signed on with WRH before or after Angel made his decision, but it is also not completely relevant.
Angel chose the easy way to save Connor not the hard one. He chose to destroy. Connor wasn't dead. He could have been saved. He might have been able to be redeemed. But instead Angel chose to change time. And in doing so he irreparably hurt others. He played God.
And as much as it may appear that he did it out of love, I don't see it that way. He made a deal. He didn't give Connor a choice. He didn't love Connor enough to give him that choice or the ability to get over his own past. Instead he re-wrote it.
And it was also pride...and arrogance and vanity. I will martyr myself to save my son. I'll give up everything. I don't deserve to be redeemed. Just like he did in IWARY - I'll play God by being the martyr. It's an abuse of power.
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Date: 2012-03-21 04:36 pm (UTC)First, I have to get this out of the way, because so many people "reacted" to the Angel bit emotionally, without reading the post carefully.
I interpreted Home a bit differently than you and others did. The thrust of my post above was how people interpret things differently and how cool that is. And I was underlining that this was an opinion based on a trigger regarding memory wiping. I have issues with that. I think I made that clear? Perhaps not?
[ie: Reminding you of your post about how :"Your friends are watching a different tv show than you are and that's okay."]
To clarify on Angel - I read it from a Macro level or big picture level not a micro or personal level. From the big picture level he wiped memories, changed the world and WRH told him that is what would happen. As Wes relates in Orion's Window - Fred may not have died, they may have gone a different path...if they still remembered.
Our memories are what we are. They define us.
When Angel removed those memories from everyone,
he changed who they were, what decisions they'd make. It is unclear whether the group signed on with WRH before or after Angel made his decision, but it is also not completely relevant.
Angel chose the easy way to save Connor not the hard one. He chose to destroy. Connor wasn't dead. He could have been saved. He might have been able to be redeemed. But instead Angel chose to change time. And in doing so he irreparably hurt others. He played God.
And as much as it may appear that he did it out of love, I don't see it that way. He made a deal. He didn't give Connor a choice. He didn't love Connor enough to give him that choice or the ability to get over his own past. Instead he re-wrote it.
And it was also pride...and arrogance and vanity. I will martyr myself to save my son. I'll give up everything. I don't deserve to be redeemed. Just like he did in IWARY - I'll play God by being the martyr. It's an abuse of power.