why not to watch "angel" late at night post-caffeine

[ontology]

So, I've decided deduced that sometime during the period in which Angel first moves to L.A. and is getting drunk a lot due to mopeage, he meets the Doctor in a bar, and they have a few beers and angst about the downsides of semi-immortality and the blonde young women who are no longer in their lives. (Also they probably save the world, completely by accident, and possibly in a manner that necessitates the quoting of "The Hollow Men".)

Search your feelings. You know it to be true.

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[faeriemaiden.livejournal.com]

Well, so I am: hence the problem. I'm not sure if our combined woeful plot inadequacy will give us both the strength to press onward, or suck us into a great black hole of plotlessness, but I suppose it's worth a try? :p

Okay, so, new theory: Whistler is secondary; it was NINE AND ROSE who convinced Angel to Go Forth And Do Good. Yep. And Angel would be all, "You're not human," and Nine would be all, "Well, neither are you," and Angel would be like, "...OKAY." and Rose would be all, "...what?" And then Rose gets grabbed by vampires or something, I don't know. Maybe the Doctor gets grabbed by vampires, cos Time Lord blood is either utterly toxic or kind of magical. Maybe Angel has to use the sonic screwdriver. And then there's rescuing and whatnot and Angel feels less broody and goes off and meets Buffy and suchlike.

Fast-forward several years, and woeful angst-ridden Ten, who has been popping in and out of bars and pubs across time and space (he rattles on about some of them because he is anything if not indiscreet and nobody believes him anyway because he is of course EVEN MORE MAD when drunk), happens to pop into the one Angel frequents, and they happen to sit near each other, or something, and Ten's all "I know you!" and Angel's like, "...um, no, you really don't", and Ten's like, "nope, you're that vampire bloke, now that was an interesting day," and Angel's like "...". And somehow eventually they get onto the subject of why they are both miserably drunk in a bar and they angst a lot and say things like "life is very long" and "between the motion and the act falls the Shadow" and then Some Massive Bad Thing Happens and they go out and stop it. After that I really don't know, except that Angel finds Ten completely irritating and the stripes are sort of blinding (but maybe they could swap hair gel recommendations?).

...I worry myself sometimes.