Moonlight
Moonlight
TV-14 | 28 September 2007 (USA)
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    bdking112

    My wife and I loved this show, very disappointed when it was canceled. The chemistry between Alex O'Loughlin (Mick St. John) and Sophia Myles (Beth Turner) was incredible. For me, I'm not sure if it was the show or Ms. Myles...perhaps both. I wish they would bring this one back. Given the interest in "vampire" shows these days, you would think "Moonlight" would have been more popular. Maybe it was due to them using older actors instead of "high school" kids. Take "The Vampire Diaries" for example, an absolute hit and rightly so (love that show too) but they went with younger people in high school kind of like the show, "Smallville". Another thing I've noticed is that once the characters in the shows that use that "freshman in high school" beginning move beyond their high school years, they become irrelevant and uninteresting. It's as if the show just flops once they graduate. I'm no expert for sure; these are just some of my thoughts on the subject.

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    nchariso

    I sat and watched all of this show. I had read some good reviews and decided to give it a chance. BAD decision. This is horrible! You forget this show was made in 2007. I hadn't seen when it was made and I thought it was made in 1985. You can clearly see the fake backgrounds, horrible, horrible acting, no chemistry between the main characters. The vampires are supposed to have superpowers but these particular vampires keep forgetting that! The story and the dialog are laughable. Sooooo many mistakes on the plot full of stupid characters. I tried to find one thing to like about this show but couldn't! Good choice to cancel this after just one year! It is probably the worst TV show I have ever seen!

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    jennjt20

    If the TV producers are smart and business-oriented, they should renew and continue where moonlight was left off. It is a real vampire for adults who still want to believe and yearning to believe in super power and unexplainable abilities such as jumping off a 30 storrey building and landed on the ground without a scratch.Bring back Moonlight, pretty please with sugar and honey on top !!!!!!!!! On a side note of a wandering mind: As much as I hate to admit, the producers of the twilight movies did a much better job than the book, what a excellent job making such a dull and mediocre book into a captivating movie !! They were able to grab my full attention watching the movies. Reading the books..hum, yawning ....

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    zephyr-123

    I became interested in this show because I'm a Buffy/Angel fan and really like the vampire genre. I was hoping for something innovative that would take the place of two shows that I love that are now over. I missed the first episode and have seen two and three. I think that people who haven't watched Buffy/Angel may have a better chance at liking this show as there isn't the inclination to make mental comparisons while watching Moonlight.I have basically a few problems with the show. The first is that I don't feel drawn in to the characters and what they are going through. The writers need to give the characters more complexity and depth. The dialog feels too ordinary for me. They need to be more unique and/or quirky than they are. In short, the characters need more character. Hopefully, that will develop as there have only been several episodes with which to judge.My second problem is that in their attempts to do something different from Forever Knight (a show I haven't yet seen but will be getting from Blockbuster Online) and Angel, they have changed the traditional and old beliefs about the vampire legend. I'm 42 and every version I've seen on film a wooden stake through the heart and exposure to sunlight kills a vampire. . .immediately--period. The writer's attempts to change this for this show in order to make it more different, to me, is neutering the vampire legend. These are classic standards that shouldn't be messed with because it is removing the major obstacles, challenges and vulnerabilities the vampire character must face, thus creating a more bland ordinary character. According to Moonlight, a stake through the heart only paralyzes them--(???!) and sunlight will only kill a vampire after prolonged exposure. I found it irritating watching Mick cross the street holding a file folder over his face. It felt lame. It took hours of him in the sunlight to have any real devastating affect. I guess I like sharp contrasts. I like the vampire bursting into flames immediately. It has more impact to me.The third problem I'm having with it (and like I said ex Buffy/Angel fans may have more problems with this than non) so far, I have seen three scenes that I have already seen on Buffy play out on here. The siring of Mick by his wife--very similar to Angel's siring by Darla. Mick says "You've turned me into a monster." Angel says "You damned me." Beth making Mick feed off of her because he was ill and that was all that would cure him. Buffy forced Angel to feed off of her because he was ill and that was all that would save him. Both scenes had the same kind of intensity but Buffy does it more realistically because after feeding off of her, he has to rush her to the hospital because of the severe blood loss. Beth isn't even lightheaded or dizzy as a result which makes the scenario less powerful than it should be. She simply bandages the wound and that's it. One scene which was kind of small but very similar was when Beth and Mick are leaning on either side of the door sensing each other's presence. I saw the exact same scene on Buffy when Spike did the same thing. I suppose it's unavoidable that there would be similar issues coming up in the vampire genre but I started watching Moonlight because I was hoping to see completely new stories within the same genre. I was hoping for more surprises. Unpredictability. So far, I'm not getting that. I've decided to at least watch the next episode because, judging by the previews, it appears to be their attempts at bringing more humor in. If I'm not hooked by then, I doubt I ever will be.

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