So to call this He does it for his own legacy, his own immortality is a really gross and massively unfair distortion. Unless you want to postulate the only reason Angel cares for Connor (at this point a suicidal killer who literally grew up in hell) is "his own legacy".
I interpreted it differently than you did.
Will remind you of a post you did a while back on "You're Friends are not watching the same tv show, that you are, and this is okay."
You are interpreting it from a micro level, I'm doing it from a macro level. Small pic vs. big pic. You are emotionally invested in Connor/Angel, I'm emotionally invested in everyone else. My trigger, as stated above is memory wipes, or playing with people's minds - removing their agency.
While your arguement is certainly valid and I agree on many points, you are missing the point of my post above. Where I state that I've seen both sides and have argued both sides. But at the end, I can't get past the fact that he altered the memories to alter his son's history, so his son could be a different person - the son he could be proud of, and could love. What Angel did is similar to what Willow did. And what the priest's did with Dawn. And I agree with Buffy in regards to the Priests/Monks - what they did was wrong. That doesn't mean I blame Dawn any more than I blame Connor.
Playing God, using power to change other's lives in order to benefit yourself or your own ends ...I have issues with. Particularly in regards to memory. My granny died without knowing who I was. I saw her forget me. I saw her memory disappear and change. My worst fear is memory manipulation. My post was about how our triggers cause us to react to fiction differently.
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I interpreted it differently than you did.
Will remind you of a post you did a while back on "You're Friends are not watching the same tv show, that you are, and this is okay."
You are interpreting it from a micro level, I'm doing it from a macro level. Small pic vs. big pic. You are emotionally invested in Connor/Angel, I'm emotionally invested in everyone else. My trigger, as stated above is
memory wipes, or playing with people's minds - removing their agency.
While your arguement is certainly valid and I agree on many points, you are missing the point of my post above. Where I state that I've seen both sides and have argued both sides. But at the end, I can't get past the fact that he altered the memories to alter his son's history, so his son could be a different person - the son he could be proud of, and could love. What Angel did is similar to what Willow did. And what the priest's did with Dawn.
And I agree with Buffy in regards to the Priests/Monks - what they did was wrong. That doesn't mean I blame Dawn any more than I blame Connor.
Playing God, using power to change other's lives in order to benefit yourself or your own ends ...I have issues with. Particularly in regards to memory. My granny died without knowing who I was. I saw her forget me. I saw her memory disappear and change. My worst fear is memory manipulation. My post was about how our triggers cause us to react to fiction differently.