I love Smile Time. Arguably ‘gimmicky’ but it had a legitimate character arc and I love the show’s more experimental episodes. Along with just being hilarious.
I'm not sure on this, I know Angelus didn't love anyone and that Darla abandoned him but then on another occasion she did save him from Holtz and Angel did look a little regretful when he killed her in buffy season 1 to save Buffy. During the trial he was willing to give his life for her but then is that because it's Darla or just what he'd do for anyone in that situation? (except lindsey or spike 😆). I suppose you could also say the way Darla helped torment him isn't the way you treat someone you love but maybe you could say she loved Angelus and not Angel? Though she definitely did respect him based on their last discussion before Drusilla re-sired her.
His entire storyline is about wanting to prove he’s more than a disposable lawyer at Wolfram & Hart, only to die because Angel considers him disposable enough to have someone else take him out.
But the whole time, Lindsey is basically a wannabe villain who thinks he’s far more important than he actually is, similar to Warren.
That’s why his death works so well. Lindsey thinks his story has to end with some big final showdown with Angel. Instead, Angel doesn’t even kill him himself. He sends one of his “flunkies” to do it.
And Lindsey’s last words are him being offended by exactly that: “You kill me? A flunky?! ... Angel kills me!”
Perfect ending for Lindsey.
After watching the show for the 300th-ish time, my silly nit-picky observation is that the lawyers at the firm are constantly at risk of being killed instead of fired, work absurdly long hours, and even have post-mortem contractual obligations. So why do lawyers start working there?! In s5 they make lots of “deal with the devil” type comments but that only seems to apply to Angel’s situation, specifically. Lindsay and Lilah aren’t super wealthy nor does it seem like they were given any other major perk that someone might sell their soul for.
What incentivizes a new lawyer to work for such a dangerous place vs any other law firm where they don’t routinely murder their employees?
Spoilers if anyone hasn't watched it all.
The old ones, jasmine, the beast, illyria, the wolf, the ram and the Hart. How do they measure up to the ones in Sunnydale in your opinion?
It was crazy to me when I first heard of wolfram and hart were once not even low level demons. Now they're a global entity, which we didn't get to see enough of the other offices around the world.
It's also something to me that they worked against The First in that they produced the champions amulet to lilah to give up Angel to give to Buffy for spike to wear that was the only way the sunnydale hellmouth was defeated and closed up. The Ubervamps overwhelmed the slayers and they lost quite a few girls, including Anya who was still a demon and survived a sword stabbing earlier in the season, yet died by a bringer.
While wr&h weren't themselves defeated, their plans were as were their tool, the circle of the black thorn, which one of their own, Lindsey, assisted in that. Now that I think of it, it's disappointing that The First didn't do anything to them for helping the slayers against it.
As powerful as they were, mesektet and ra'tet, they were killed by the beast and that made me wonder as i thought about it. Was the beast always that strong or was he also empowered by jasmine in order to accomplish all that he did? And why didn't the first employ the beast to assist in sunnydale?
I also wished that WR&H gave Buffy and gang more attention and maybe employ some when they hired Angel investigations.
This episode of Angel, Angel, Illyria begins acting more strangely than usual. Angel and Spike's mission to help resurrect a demon gang leader in Italy is made more complicated when they learn that their former love, Buffy, might be in danger. Meanwhile, when the Burkles make a surprise visit to Wolfram and Hart, Illyria solves the problem by showing Wesley a frightening talent.