Was " a child" the one thing he really wanted though? I feel like they kind of stuck it in there s an attempt to kind of give him layers and tease him with aspects of a normal life.
A child was the one thing he, an immortal demon, could never hope to father. He certainly thought about that... we know when he leaves Buffy to find her normal that he regrets that he can't give her a child among other things. Did he want a child before it happened? Unknown. However, from his over-protective and completely obsessive over the top uber-fathering, we know he was totally into taking care of his child.
And of course, there's the fact that he gave up his freedom and that of his friends to get Connor a new life courtesy of W&H. Connor was his LIFE and he had to save him even if it risked the end of the world (as going to W&H did)
Are you saying you wanted Cordelia and Wesley to betray Angel and run away with him to a hell dimension? Or them to try and protect Connor only to accidentally lose him to Holtz and then have him stolen and end up in a hell dimension?
I am saying that maybe instead of Holtz ending up in the hell dimension, have Wesley and Cordelia end up there instead. (probably by accident)
It would make changes in them (but not as much as Holtz, since he's already well into middle age) but it would also give Connor something like real parents -- at minimum people who cared about him and didn't hate Angel. Remember, Wesley was running away with Connor... he didn't want Angel to kill him... He was trying to SAVE Connor, not betray Angel. If anything, he wanted to save Angel from his nature... and he was unfortunately, thinking like a watcher... which blinded him to Angel's motivations enough that he felt he couldn't talk to him.
Scenario:
What if somehow, Cordelia was around, and got a vision or something and went to confront Wesley (
not to betray Angel) Then, there's any number of ways they could end up taking Holtz' place in quortoth accidentally.
Charisma was a decade older than the character she played in Buffy -- it's never said how old she was on Angel b/c IMO, they wanted to gloss over the fact that she didn't look like 19 or 20, but 30. It would have only taken a touch of gray to the temples for both her and Wesley to look like the fit, healthy parents of a teenager 15 years on. She's 7 years older than SMG ~ which is why she looks older than the other women whose contemporary she played (I think she looks fabulous for 47). IMO, she's aging better than SMG, considering she's nearing 50.
Anyway, have her age 15 years, and she's playing a character only 5 years older than her real age. And that would have given them time to have her off the show, if needed.
Then they'd return when Connor is old enough to punch through... a very different family... and yes, no Cordelia/Angel, and no Wes/Fred craziness.
