I disagree. The real Cordy was with Angel. The thing that died that was just her body, which was basically an empty vessel at that point because of her assention. She made it clear she was just allowed to visit this once by the PTB as an accommodation reached with Cordy. Once she had gotten Angel back on path and said her goodbye to him (sniff) there was no use in leaving her body around (especially after what happened with it last time ), so she turned it off like a light switch when you leave a room.
BTW: I agree, Cordy can beam in anytime (I would expect to see her for the Series finale, whenever that will be).
Also, two sterling episodes in a row. And the little bad taken care of, so the W&H plotline fully kicks in.
If I were Angel, I think I would be destroying that failsafe ASAP.
Two meta plot points that confused me a bit:
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Cordy was orginally shown as not enjoying the assended life (remember the puffy clouded “get me out of here” bit). Was that because of Skip’s machinations you think? And now that she truly assended (remember she was able to negociate to return this once directly with the PTB) I guess she is more happy with the result (her calm acceptance of her “path”).
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And the end of Season 2, Lindsey seemed to have resolved his issues with Angel (but not the firm). But the episode made it seem like Lindsey was more obsessed with Angel then with getting anything else. While the runes hid him, he really couldn’t take actual control over the firm or its assets as the Senior Partners and the rest of the FG would have prevented that. Plus, by killing Angel (if that was his plan) would have tipped off the Senior Partners. Remember Lindsey rightly feared their power, and was proven to be no match for them (without the hidey runes he got sucked up in 5 seconds). So what exactly was his end goal and why? For the life of me, I can’t figure out what exactly he was trying to do. Kill Angel- lots of easier ways of trying that. Get control over the firm- probably not going to happen because of the Senior Partners and the FG. Besides, he hated the firm. That’s why he left. Revenge against the firm? Pointless- the stone demon ravaged the place like he never could and they just rebuilt it nicer. So WTF was Lindsey trying to do?