Thoughts

• This…voiceover…is …. another…that’s not….this isn’t…Angel doesn’t talk like…what is this show?

But then I realized that we never actually met Angel on Buffy. We saw him in three conditions: from Buffy’s point of view, evil and internally tortured.

So whoever he is, we really have yet to discover him. That’s kind of exciting.

• “Shut up and die” is the worst vampire line - ever.

• I have no interest in Los Angeles as a city or setting or urban animal to be explored. It might be the city in the world that I am interested in the least.

• Vampires in Los Angeles have weird bulgy eye things.

• Vampires in Los Angeles are only bothered by the sun when it’s convenient because boy they sure do get around in the daylight a whole lot.

• I originally thought Cordelia seemed…dumber on Angel. But then I realized she was lying in the first scene. That works for me. The choice of bringing her over into this show is still kind of surprising, but she works - and was the most easily removable from the Buffy clan.

• Thank gosh Doyle is Doyle and not Whistler.

• Watching the opening credits hit home that this show is not Buffy. It is sleeker, smoother and more like those gritty shows other people watch late at night. Also, I realized that unlike Buffy most of the character in this show are going to be, like, adults. Weird.

• The premise of the show…I’ll buy it. For now. Mostly because I assume it will be a vehicle for these early episodes and will eventually be abandoned as the show grows. It’s pretty … Touched by Angel if you catch my drift. I wasn’t going to go there, but then I did.