wes is the best

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RHYMEPHILE

Monday, October 11, 2004 2:04 PM

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Originally posted by Succatash:
EST120 - I'm right there with you. If you want, check out this Wesley video clip I made, you might enjoy it.

http://www.strangefinger.com/thehero.mpg (28 MB)

'Tash! Why haven't you advertised this more?? It was hysterical. Who would have thought "Chariots of Fire" would be perfectly suited to Wes??
BWAhahahahahahahahahahaaaaaa!!!

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JEWEL

Monday, October 11, 2004 2:31 PM

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Originally posted by Succatash:

EST120 - I'm right there with you. If you want, check out this Wesley video clip I made, you might enjoy it.

http://www.strangefinger.com/thehero.mpg (28 MB)

I can't believe I missed this my first time through this thread. I loved it! Way cool..

CAPTAINCDC

Monday, October 11, 2004 4:37 PM

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Originally posted by Grounded:
Almost. The point is he's not any kind of demon hunter (and certainly not a rogue one). As inferred by the episode (through Wes' various bunglings) he hasn't done a hell of a lot of demon hunting in between Sunnydale and LA ;)

I agree with that for the most part. Although he did say in his first angel ep that he had tracked the demon, "a particularly nasty bugger". Did he not say that he nearly had him in arizona or something. So he had done a little demon hunting after the council sacked him, the only thing was that he was tracking the wrong demon.

May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one.

GROUNDED

Monday, October 11, 2004 11:08 PM

Yes, maybe, but he was posturing the entire episode so nothing he says can be taken as unembellished.

IDEFIX

Tuesday, October 12, 2004 5:01 PM

ahh, come on, he was a 'Demon Hunter' as in 'hunting demons' alright. doesn't mean he caught any, does it? we have to believe he tried to hunt them, even if he didn't have much success.

oh, I love incompetent early Wesley. so much potential buried under so much posturing.

Idefix

EST120

Tuesday, October 12, 2004 5:07 PM

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Originally posted by Idefix:
ahh, come on, he was a 'Demon Hunter' as in 'hunting demons' alright. doesn't mean he caught any, does it? we have to believe he tried to hunt them, even if he didn't have much success.

oh, I love incompetent early Wesley. so much potential buried under so much posturing.

Idefix

so if he had been successful even once, he should have changed his name to "rogue demon slayer"?

IDEFIX

Tuesday, October 12, 2004 5:12 PM

he should have, it's more accurate and he's nothing if not meticulous (sp?).

and since he told everyone he was a 'demon hunter' we can assume that he never caught one.

and now I need to take my S1 DVDs and watch it again...

Idefix

SUCCATASH

Tuesday, October 12, 2004 5:28 PM

A deer hunter is someone who hunts and shoots deer.

BIKISDAD

Tuesday, October 12, 2004 5:58 PM

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Originally posted by Succatash:

A deer hunter is someone who hunts and shoots deer.

Not necessarily. I used to go fishing a lot and not catch any fish. I still considered myself a fisherman at the time - maybe not a good one, but a fisherman just the same.

I think the theory that Wes called himself a demon hunter, but one who had never caught a demon, is a good one. Let's face it, if incompetent, pre-Angel Wesley had caught a demon, it probably would have killed him before he ever had a chance to show up on Angel. So the idea that he had hunted, but never caught one makes a lot of sense.

Apathy on the Rise. No One Cares.

RHYMEPHILE

Tuesday, October 12, 2004 7:07 PM

I don't think we're giving Wes enough credit. True, he was on the green side when he first showed up on Buffy and then Angel, but he was head boy at the Watcher's Academy, he had an overbearing father who presumedly wanted his son to excel in everything (and it seems Wes tried to fulfill that), and he did show up on Angel with weapons and the practical knowledge for demon-hunting.

I think it's perfectly realistic to assume Wes had been tracking, hunting, and killing demons (perhaps not the most dangerous kinds, though) in the time he spent between Buffy and Angel.

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