You finally got a girlfriend in season two, didn’t you?
Yeah. The nice upshot of being Angel for that show (Guise Will Be Guise), was that Wesley got to meet a hot babe and actually get a little for a change. It had been a pretty dry area for him.
Although, there are allusions made to his sex life from time to time, that he may be more than meets the eye in that department, he’s going out and having a wild time and keeping it quiet.
But this was the first time we really see him on screen with somebody and I think what I liked about that was that it was handled in a very normal way. They met in extraordinary circumstances but they maintained a very kind of domestic un-glamorous, un-grand lifestyle.
You just see them in quiet moments together, and when you do come back in to see the relationship again we see that it’s progressed each time without a lot of explanation. We just cut into a slice of their life later on.
That gave Wesley the chance to be more of a normal guy instead of this slightly eccentric outsider clowning around. It gave him a much more approachable side and revealed a vulnerability on an emotional level that was important to make him a more rounded character.
