Just when you think there’s certainty in this world, a few selective truths that you can hang your hat on and accept as read, someone comes along and flips everything round.

I refer of course to the accepted wisdom of Angel fans — at least, the ones I know — “Connor is a whining, selfish, pathetic little loser and I never want to see him on this show again! Especially if he’s shagging characters I until recently really liked!”

And then they got rid of him. And I was happy. But this week, Angel’s estranged, memory-wiped son comes to Wolfram & Hart to seek advice on his growing super powers, and demon attacks on his family. Angel doesn’t want to be involved, but unfortunately for him, everyone around him also has their memory wiped and can’t understand why. So he ends up having to deal with Connor, which he doesn’t really mind so much. But Wesley has already worked out that there’s something funny going on, and that it has something to do with when they came to the evil law firm…

There’s not really much of a proper storyline to this episode. It’s more of a plotline-wrapping-up thing, as we approach the end of this series. And yet, it’s very entertaining. Many little items people wanted to see wrapped up, are.

• The Angel Team can’t remember Connor!
• Angel will never see his son again!
• What about Sahjahn? Wasn’t Connor supposed to kill him?

Of course, as someone who all season has been wanting Wesley to get his memory back, I felt a little guilty when he actually did. Hasn’t he suffered enough? Poor bastard. He’ll have stubble on his stubble, just you watch. I continue to enjoy Illyria, too. I feel ashamed that I almost prefer her to Fred. But Fred was way cuter. It’s a bit of a shame that Gunn and Lorne won’t ever get their memories back though. How selfish Wesley is.

And so, I join my voice to the chorus over the internet demanding to know how it was possible to have an enjoyable Connor-based episode, and why the hell we didn’t have one back when he was actually a regular.

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