Angel Season Finale: what'd y'all think?
POSTED BY: Melee
UPDATED: Tuesday, May 13, 2003 00:44
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"How many teenagers do you know? It has been my experience (at 17 years of age) that most teenagers are fairly well equipped to deal with life without constantly whining.
Those that have been put in life threatening situations usually excel or crack."
I've hired quite a few to work for me in a bookstore, and you're right, whining is not limited by age. There were seventeen year olds who were better, more responsible workers than some of the forty year olds I hired.
But Conor did not merely whine - he fought. I think he would have excelled if given half a chance, but he never was. He fought demons, vampires, both his fathers, and most of all, himself.
My point about him being a teenager is that he had very little life experience. That even tho he had oodles of experience fighting for survival, he had no experience of just being loved for who he was, or to get along in this world. Yes, there were demons to fight, but also relationships to build, and he had NO experience with that, and no one really helping him that he trusted.
In some very real ways, he was still a child, and I think people forget that. Just because he could dust a vamp without breathing hard, doesn't mean he was mature.
He had way too much responsibility, way too soon. He coped the best he could, until the end. Killing Jasmine broke something inside him, the very last thing that was holding him together.
So I cut him some slack in the whine department. Apparently, I'm the only one. I liked him. I thought his character was believable, given the history we had to work with. I think if he'd been completely together, and coping well with all the crap going on around him, that would have been false.
Se la Vie.
"You're not friends. You'll never be friends. You'll be in love till it kills you both. You'll fight, and you'll shag, and you'll hate each other till it makes you quiver, but you'll never be friends. Love isn't brains, children, it's blood. Blood screaming inside you to work its' will. I may be love's bitch, but at least I'm man enough to admit it."
Spike
"Lover's Walk"
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That’s more like it, I have noting to contest with what you just said, you're points are valid and good. I did like Connor, but I stopped when he started to chose lie over truth, and do things he knew were morally wrong.
He came out of Hell a fighter and although he had a limited understanding of relationships he proved he had enough to get by to some degree. But in the everyday world he just sunk, he was presented with truth, and the opportunity to do good, but he decided not to.
Remember Sunny? (She was Sunny wasn’t she? I don’t have the best memory) She and he were on much the same ground, she used drugs to get out of it, he didn’t have any coping. But when he was there he did good, then she died. He kept on doing good, but he was planing revenge the entire time. Maybe that was his coping, but it doesn’t make him likable. But at some point he stopped the whole good thing, and went straight to revenge. For a while he went back and forth, then he snapped.
I think it happened when he beat up the guy to find Cordi, the killing Jasmine was simply the culmination.
But anyway, this rambling is to say a agree with you, Connor was likable, but for me that stopped a long time ago. It’s hard to say when because he was being deceitful at the time.
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