Confessions of a Liberal Puritan

As I was walking to campus today, I realized that the word I SHOULD have used to describe "A.I." was 'soul-less', because it settled for shallow sentimentality and shameless manipulation again and again. (Though Jude Law WAS very pretty!)

I've been conversing with some fellow fans in Real Life, and now I'm tending toward the belief (or hope, anyway) that Lindsey is really GOOD and is just using these Machiavellian tactics (and the truly evil and therefore expendable Eve) in order to "wean" Angel and Co. from the "corporate teat" by 'souring the milk', as it were (making the Senior Partners think maybe they shouldn't try to hold on to Angel, 'cause he's not who they thought he was after all, and holding up new-heroic-model Spike as a mirror and reminder of who they all used to be, before their pact with the devil). I like that better than the idea that Lindsey is really evil, anyway.

Furthermore, a friend suggested that the whole "Buffy-goldfish-quote-soul" connection was actually all about the original context for Buffy's remark -- comparing goldfish to children (sort of). Therefore, what it really means in Angel's vision is that his soul is dead (and flushable) because he has symbolically killed his own child (having taken away Connor's original identity and memories in order to create a "better" but false identity and life for his son, and having also taken away the memory of who Connor had been from his own closest "family" members). He's empty, therefore, because of the whole memory-wipe decision he made at the end of last season, and nothing will be truly right with him again until he at least reverses the memory wipe as far as Wes, Fred, and Gunn are concerned. Interesting, no?