Buffy Stake

It seems that there are television shows that exist solely to try to capitalize on a genre that was popular for several years before. Moonlight is a series of CBS series.

The series is a show that fans of Anne Rice, Buffy, vampire or in general are all too well in terms of history. Moonlight is a story of a vampire who falls in love with a mortal who is not aware (through the first episodes) of his nocturnal activities.

I guess I should go further in history. Mick St. John is a private detective who became a vampire when bitten by his wife to be on his wedding night fifty five years ago. Now he accepts cases which lead to vampires who seek to harm all men falling in love with a journalist who has his suspicions Internet about it.

The main thing that drags this show to land is the simple fact that he has a concept that was cool ten years ago. In fact, the most modern thing about the show is that the love interest of St. John's is an Internet journalist.

Even the designs of the characters are overwhelmed by at least four years. The pilot of the series is the same mistake of using the already overused My Immortal by Evanescence in a manner completely out of context. The main character of Mick St. John did no substance.

It's a little difficult to accept a flawed hero whose only apparent fault is that he is a vampire and has to lie about it. And his love interest should be called his girlfriend because there's nothing interesting about it. It is always a damsel in distress, and there are times when I really wish she was killed.

Now, I realize that seems pretty hard for a show that is barely in its first season, but I found that there was absolutely nothing interesting about Moonlight. It recycles old ideas, is entirely devoid of imagination, and it is just plain boring. Maybe ten years ago, it would be interesting.

I'm not saying the show had no potential. But I say that all the potential he had been thrown through a window to produce an hour too stereotypical television. Moonlight is an example of what is wrong with vampire fiction today.

There is no progress in ideas. Everything is recycled. Fortunately, it does not take a clove of garlic to eliminate Mick St. John. Simply changing the channel and watch something else. Or, leave it and take a nap.