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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He seems to have certain priorities, and if the issue is outside of those priorities, he can't be bothered to think about it.

It's one of the reasons Firefly drove me bananas. He apparently thought it was cool to literally have cowboys in space but he couldn't be assed to come up with any sociological explanation for why people in the future would adopt a dialect out of one small corner of a country for a brief time in the mid- 19th century. Don't just go "cool! metaphor that's no longer a metaphor but literally walking around" I want to know why! And I realized that Joss was never, ever going to tell me.

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"It's one of the reasons Firefly drove me bananas. He apparently thought it was cool to literally have cowboys in space"
Which was the main reason my other half refused point blank to watch more than half of the first episode of Firefly. Probably also contributed to its lack of viewers overall...

LMF