Moonlight

[botias]

I watched the first two eps of Moonlight last night. It is Bad, make no mistake. The acting can be very awkward, as is the show's use of devices that I didn't even notice were devices on other shows. Their villains have an edge-crush test rating and their rendition of the flappy coat somehow manages to say 'Marilyn Monroe' rather than 'romantic anti-hero'. Since the anti-hero is wearing jeans instead of silk thigh highs, there's really no win. They fail at pretty much everything, except at making me excited to watch the next episode.

I don't get it, but I don't really care :D Maybe they have subliminal messages like: "He just needs the love of a good woman" or "Vamp shlongs are bigger". Oh, and Jason Dohring as an amoral vampire type, amen. I would watch just for that, I love his evil.

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[devylish.livejournal.com]

Vamp shlongs are bigger


NO YOU DID NOT!!!!

LOL!!!!!!

[botias.livejournal.com]

Are they? I always suspected.

O.O What didn't I do?!?!?

[petzipellepingo.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it steals from every previous vampire show on television but, like all good cheese, it's addictive. Last night's episode shamelessly stole, IMO, from Spiral, Graduation Day Part 2 & Dead Things.

No sign of any vampire shlongs so far however...

[earth-vexer.livejournal.com]

their rendition of the flappy coat somehow manages to say 'Marilyn Monroe' rather than 'romantic anti-hero'
LOL. Fabulous.

[botias.livejournal.com]

No sign of any vampire shlongs so far however...

That's what fanart is for, I suppose. But I don't doubt this show would deliver the goods if only the FCC would let them. It's that kind of show.

It's so nice to have a vampire show that looks to give me what I want instead of what Joss thinks I need. Maybe Joss needs bigger explosions and moar angst, and to look himself in the mirror in the morning, but I _need_ me some vampire romance, damn it all.

[botias.livejournal.com]

:-*

[herself_nyc]

I _need_ me some vampire romance, damn it all.

Per-sackly.

[diachrony.livejournal.com]

Why is it that everyone who watches this show admits it's really, really bad and they still get hooked? I am going to have to test it on myself. I'm a hard sell for the simple reason that pretty boys, per se, leave me cold. If the only thing this show has going for it is pretty boys, I will not be hooked.

(Just as the prettiness of Dean on SPN has done nothing to lure me past the astonishing badness of the cheesy dialogue and otherwise clunky writing. I may need to be tied down & force-fed SPN episodes before the addictiveness kicks in... I feel left out! and along comes Moonlight to make it worse!)

[botias.livejournal.com]

I tried SPN and teh pritty was not near enough, but Moonlight has me hooked. Not Buffy-hooked, mind you. I could quit cold turkey any time I wanted. Yeah. Anyway--the lead of Moonlight is not pretty, and neither is Jason Dohring for that matter. With Jason it's always been about the unholy gleam in his eye. *swoonz*

I think it's because SPN is neither good enough nor bad enough. It lacks Buffy's smarts, and self-deprecating humor, but it's not bad enough to be LOL bad. Moonlight is That Bad.

[botias.livejournal.com]

*nods*

[diachrony.livejournal.com]

Moonlight is That Bad.

Aaah ... you know the magic words. I'm more than halfway sold already, sight unseen!

And I so know what you mean about Jason's "unholy gleam" ... yes, another great selling point!

[botias.livejournal.com]

Have you seen Jason on Veronica Mars? Cuz basically I've taken all that character development and deposited it in Moonlight's account.

[diachrony.livejournal.com]

Hee. Yes, that's where I know Jason from, and I'm sure I'll be taking the same shortcut as you. ;)

[botias.livejournal.com]

It's funny cuz he's not my usual idea of attractive, his jawline's kinda soft yadda, yadda. But those eyes--they speak right to my inner cavewoman or something. *whew*

I hope his Moonlight character has the same heroic streak.