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shipperx ([personal profile] shipperx) wrote2010-03-16 02:14 pm
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AtS Season 5 Question

It's a question that came up for me when working on my WIP. I even went back and re-watched "You're Welcome" to see whether I had forgotten something, but the answer isn't in "You're Welcome."

Exactly why was Lindsey doing what he was doing in Season 5 AtS? In "You're Welcome"s big Angel/Lindsey fight scene he says he was pissed that Angel was handed everything that Lindsey had worked for... except... huh?

In the evil hand episode, Lindsey was given the job of head of the L.A. Branch. He turned it down and said to give it to Lilah instead.

So he's back in AtS 5 pissed because... Angel got the job? Huh?

I know that Lindsey long had a chip on his shoulder regarding Angel. And I know that there was also the issue of Darla (not that it was mentioned in AtS 5). But it just feels to me that Lindsey's motives and goal weren't well developed or identified in AtS 5.

This isn't really an issue in my WIP, other than it might be nice to know. Angel doesn't even appear in this story, and I know what Lindsey's motivation is within the context of my own story. But it does have me pondering Lindsey's Season 5 purpose. He went to a lot of trouble (including resurrecting Spike). But why and what he hoped to gain wasn't particularly well defined... at least from what I remember... and other than 'to piss off Angel.'

Am I forgetting something?

[identity profile] deborahc.livejournal.com 2010-03-17 03:53 am (UTC)(link)
As far as I could tell (and I've not read any of the other comments yet), the AtS 5 writers didn't let a little thing like character and story integrity and continuity get in the way of the splash they could make by bringing him back the way they wanted him, that is, in the state of mind that predated his LA departure in S3. He was pretty, charismatic, and popular with the fans, so they spun a story line together for that held together only if you squinted and didn't put any weight on it.

Correction

[identity profile] deborahc.livejournal.com 2010-03-17 03:57 am (UTC)(link)
....Lindsey's departure in S2, I meant.

[identity profile] shipperx.livejournal.com 2010-03-17 02:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Frankly, he deserved better than for the writers not even to bother with giving him a purpose for doing what he was doing.

But, then, he's hardly the only character they did a disservice to.