I Suck At Angel

On Saturday, my friends (Marc and Kelley) came over. On the agenda for the night was completing the third season of Angel. Yes, I suck at Angel.

Awhile ago, we had been pretty dedicated in watching the complete series of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel. Unfortunately, our dedication started to wane simply because of time commitments and all of that. It's similar to the Veronica Mars plans that I had with my BFF (Kerry). We just kept putting it off. The next you know, a great amount of time has elapsed.

In the case of Angel, I think one of main reasons why we kept putting it off was that we left off just as the show was re-introducing Angel's son, Connor. For me anyway, I dislike the Connor character. He is to Angel what Dawn is to Buffy: a show-ruiner. Although I would have to say that I dislike Connor more than Dawn.

Anyway, it was great as usual to hang out with Marc and Kelley. After ordering takeout from Uno's, we watched the final three episodes of season three. And interestingly enough, I still dislike Connor.

Truth be told, I think I was more into pitching my random sitcom idea than watching Connor on Angel. Among the things that came up during our get together on Saturday was my idea to create a comedy called "The Home", which is about a group of elderly people... in a nursing home. Essentially, I thought it could be like the Golden Girls, only much older and with both men and women. I suppose if I were to reference Golden Girls, I guess I would say the "The Home" would be a bunch of Sophias.

The show would have its usual character types like the very old slut or man-whore taking Viagra. There's usually a dumb or naive character. There could be a recurring situation like how the main character always has to reintroduce himself to one of the old folks at the home, because that old person keeps forgetting things... yet miraculously can provide words of wisdom much like Wilson from Home Improvement.

And the best part of course is that the show can be totally inappropriate because old people say the darnedest things. Perhaps there could be an Archie Bunker type of character. Who knows? The possibilities are endless. And I suppose the idea has more potential than the other brainstorm idea that all of us had: Tard the Musical.

Needless to say, I may have spent more time thinking about this television pitch than paying attention to Connor on Angel. Speaking of which, I am dreading season four of Angel simply because of Connor.

Anyway, it was a great time on Saturday. Sadly, after Marc and Kelley left, I decided to watch yet another movie. That movie: Fighting, starring Channing Tatum and Terrence Howard. The plot is about an ex-wrestler who turns into a street hustler in New York. He meets up with a ticket scalper, who consequently leads the hustler into a world where they can profit from his fighting skills.

Sounds dumb? Yes, it absolutely was. The dialog was terrible. The plot was predictable. I'm surprised the movie made money.