GRUMPY

[erastes]

OMG -

Angel Series Four is going in all sorts of directions I wasn't expecting.

ARGH! Great idea - I mean - OMG - Jasmine!

But also....Including into the crapper scriptwise.

What, pray, was the brainwavey idea of making the script "Angel for Dummies"? 

It's bad enough to have "previously on Angel" still included on the DVD - (i mean... WHY?) but then to have this level of imbecility in the script....

Get this. It seems that Charles Gunn has had a lobotomy and that no-one else has been watching the series AT ALL.

Gunn: "Two vampires hook up, and—for the only time in vamp history—have a kid, our boy Connor. Then Connor grows up, knocks it out with Cordelia, a part-demon former higher-being. And—quick as you can say "Easy Bake Oven"—there's a gigantic bun in hers."

Oh - don't take my word for it. Read the rest of the script. If you don't think it's pure "As you know, Bob," I'll.... I don't know. eat my cat. Where is the wit that Joss is famous for?  The best I can say is that most of this season is "fake Joss" - people attempting to emulate the quick genius quips that came with Buffy, Firefly and Dr Horrible and are failing MISERABLY.

I should have realised when Gwen had the surname RAIDEN. Those in the know will know what i mean. URGH.

Roll on series six, that's all I can say.

And while I'm having a major moan - what's going on with series' length in the UK. Hustle - six episodes? Demons - ditto. Torchwood - Five episodes over five nights.  Ditto Dr Who.

Is this the new "season"?  NOT GOOD ENOUGH THANK YOU.