In keeping with the vampire motif the wife and I picked up “Moonlight” the complete series. Turns out I saw the first episode already and while my wife catches up I’ll fill you in on what I thought and what I’m thinking this time around.
But before I do that I’ve got to come clean about my bias as a viewer. I can’t stand the establishing episodes of a new vampire series. The rules in a vampire universe have been perfectly established by “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”, so changing the rules that Mr. Whedon created is not something that generally sits well with me. I was resistant to “True Blood” and eventually came around to that, so while I’m super down on “Moonlight” episode 1 it might be me simply not giving it a fair shake.
While I seriously miss “Veronica Mars”, I don’t miss it enough to watch Jason Dohring pretend to an extremely old and sarcastic vampire. Also, on the low-light scale, the opening scene where Mick St. John explains himself to a camera was really hooky. To make matters worse the whole show at this juncture seems really impractical.
I know it seems ridiculous to say a show about vampires doesn’t give the impression of being be grounded in reality but this one really doesn’t. Mick sleeps in an ice box, he shoots blood into himself with a syringe, and if he wears sunglasses he can walk around in broad daylight. This is all insane and does not make any dramatic sense. How can vampires have all the strengths they have and none of the weaknesses?
The storyline with the professor and his padawan learner was absolutely ridiculous as well. But I’ve got to tell you, I knew this show was nothing special the first time around for sure when the episode was coming to a close and Evanescence started playing.
This show has two things going for it, however, one my Dad picked this up in reruns on the Scifi (soon to be Syfy) network so that speaks well for it. More importantly the wife really enjoyed the first episode so I’m stuck watching this regardless, unless it suffers from a “Heroes” styled sudden drop in quality which I’m thinking is impossible because in my eyes it’s got nowhere to go but up.
Those of you reading this who enjoyed the Moonlight series, please check out “Angel”, being a vampire in that universe has consequences and makes you evil. Unless you have a soul… or a chip…
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Steve, I'm really sorry that you are a "vampire snob" LOL I really, really liked this show. I liked the characters, music, Mick and the girl together (can't remember her name on the show) and as it goes on, I feel that it does get better. We'll see how you feel about it! He is on a show in the fall - have no idea what it's about though!
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