Among the things I watched in the video room was the Angel season one two-parter featuring Faith. It was better than I recalled, with not only strong performances by everyone involved, but also a sense of where things would be heading with Wesley. The willingness to do whatever he thinks must be done, the anger, the skills, are all there in a lesser degree. I would say that to a large degree, the writers on Angel have done right by Wesley from the start, and that he has developed and changed in a steady and consistent and logical way.

Yay! I was just thinking this myself this weekend as I was watching my first season Angel DVDs, trying to figure out where precisely Wesley stopped being a wimp and when he started to groove on that pragmatic streak of his. And actually it started even before this, back in the episode 'The Ring', it's one of the first times that Wesley shows he's willing to inflict pain to get what he wants when it comes to getting the job done. Er, anyway, hi! Just wanted to see that someone else felt this way about Wes.