Moonlight < True Blood
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Moonlight < True Blood
You can pretty much tell from the opener alone. Moonlight doesn't look bad, but I never thought Forever Knight really needed a sequel. But hey... Sophia Miles is worth watching, and the occasional Shannyn Sossamon... *shrug*
"It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past. Each new historical era mirrors itself in the picture and active mythology of its past or of a past borrowed from other cultures. It tests its sense of identity, of regress or new achievement against that past.”
-George Steiner
-George Steiner
I watched a few episodes. Yeah, an attempt to re-tread Forever Knight and/or Angel, but without the big burden of guilt with which to motivate the vampire detective.
"O let my name be in the Book of Love!
It be there, I care not of the other great book Above.
Strike it out! Or, write it in anew. But
Let my name be in the Book of Love!" --Omar Khayam
It be there, I care not of the other great book Above.
Strike it out! Or, write it in anew. But
Let my name be in the Book of Love!" --Omar Khayam
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I've just finished the first season of True Blood with Anna Paquin (Rogue from X-Men), not sure if this is the thread or not as I also went through the first (and only) series of Moonlight recently..... I'm sort of on a Vampire kick at the moment.
I really enjoyed Moonlight and it seems that they dumped it a bit too quickly as there was (and is) a growing fan base for Mick the Vamp.
True Blood tho' is an off beat affair with everything from slapstick to horror to soft porn. The writing is excellent in parts but shocking in others with some of the stupidity of the characters actions reminiscent of Jack Baurs daughter in the first couple of 24s! The soundtrack is good even if you aren't right into country and it gets the full HBO treatment, which is by and large prety good (IMO).
I had to keep watching it tho'; there is something compelling about some of the story lines and you wonder where the macro plot will go beyond outlining a world that has a variety of "complicated" characters.
I really enjoyed Moonlight and it seems that they dumped it a bit too quickly as there was (and is) a growing fan base for Mick the Vamp.
True Blood tho' is an off beat affair with everything from slapstick to horror to soft porn. The writing is excellent in parts but shocking in others with some of the stupidity of the characters actions reminiscent of Jack Baurs daughter in the first couple of 24s! The soundtrack is good even if you aren't right into country and it gets the full HBO treatment, which is by and large prety good (IMO).
I had to keep watching it tho'; there is something compelling about some of the story lines and you wonder where the macro plot will go beyond outlining a world that has a variety of "complicated" characters.
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"Terrorism is war by the poor, and war is terrorism by the rich"
"A fine is a tax for doing wrong. A tax is a fine for doing well."
"The opposite of pro-life isn't pro-death. Y'know?"
"What if the Hokey Cokey really is what its all about?"