Connor’s end in S4 feels unfair

He should be put in prison for murder, just like Faith did. Yeah I know he’s had an extremely traumatising childhood and got groomed to the fullest yadayada, but every murderer got a sad story to tell, he doesn’t get to just forget and be forgiven. Doing evil things should have a consequence, at least in tv shows, which is also a major recurring theme in Angel. The happy ending they gave Connor made all other characters’ struggle between good and evil look bblike a complete joke. The foundation of the whole show is Angel getting cursed with a soul to atone for his previous sins, so how come all his son has to do is a memory wipe spell?

It also made Darla’s reappearance a complete waste of time, she spent a whole episode begging Connor not to kill the innocent girl, telling him how he’s got a good heart, how there’s no coming back from this, to the point she becomes the woman he’s about to kill, and Connor still did it. Killing the image of his mother should have huge emotional and plot impact, but the whole thing just got dropped as if never happened.

There is a similar case where Willow also didn’t get punished for murdering, but at least there’s some street justice to it? Like Willow shouldn’t have done it but they kinda deserved it killing her love for life and spending an entire season trying to rape Buffy. Oh now that I mentioned it did anyone else feel really grossed out how the show runner tried to make the three perv’s stalking and other sexual predation a funny comedy? Is that what 90s teenagers consider hilarious or just a Joss Whedon thing?