AtS Season 5 Question

[shipperx]

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?

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[menomegirl.livejournal.com]

They never really explained Lindsey's motivations in season 5; I think in one of the commentaries David Greenwalt said that Lindsey left to go find himself and what he found was that he really hated Angel. CK himself said on one of the commentaries that he didn't know what his character was doing most of the time. So I think the writers concieved an idea and went with it; writing as they went along. Which pretty much leaves us to fanwank Lindsey's motivations for his actions ourselves.

My take on it is that Lindsey was mightily pissed off when he found out that Angel had accepted the position of CEO of Wolfram & Hart, given that Angel had mocked him because (and I quote from the episode 'Blind Date') "you sold your soul for a fifth-floor office and a company car." So, yeah, that would piss Lindsey off. Mightily. Do I think it was enough for Lindsey to concieve the plan to bring Spike back to undermine Angel? Possibly.

Here's where I have the problem: Lindsey didn't give a fuck about the Senior Partner's plans for Angel when he *worked there*. He'd have happily seen Angel dead and danced on his pile of dust without a care in the world. So do I think he came back to try to get into the Circle of the Black Thorn? Hell no. That contradicts every bit of Lindsey's journey in season 2.

And don't even get me started on the massively huge error in continuity concerning magic that occured in the episode "You're Welcome".

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

mightily pissed off when he found out that Angel had accepted the position of CEO of Wolfram & Hart, given that Angel had mocked him because (and I quote from the episode 'Blind Date') "you sold your soul for a fifth-floor office and a company car." So, yeah, that would piss Lindsey off. Mightily

Don't know that this would cover everything, but I could definitely see Lindsey feeling that way.

*edited because apparently I had a bout with posting dyslexia.