Scan of Moonlight (2007) For Your Consideration (FYC) Emmy 2008 DVD slip cover

This was one of my grail items for awhile and I finally bought it on eBay back in March (it's nice to have another thing to add to my Moonlight collection

I just love the different ways they use the promotional pictures

*This was scanned at the library it's not the best but I think it looks ok

Got a screenshot of the Moonlight FYC (For Your Consideration) DVD main menu

Moonlight 2008 Emmy FYC DVD slip cover (without text)

lady-amalthea:

So I finally watched the infamous series Moonlight, the one canceled with one season and sixteen episodes that many people thought was a copy of Forever Knight (which I haven't watched yet, so I don't have the right to say anything about this subject).

But back to Moonlight, it's not bad. I didn't understand why it was so criticized, I thought it was well written, with cool characters and a cool plot.

⚠️ SPOILER ALERT ⚠️

Firstly, the series was going to be called Twilight, which eventually changed to Moonlight. It's a shame they didn't decide very well on the theme of the title, right? Because in the series it's one, in the promos it's another. They did the same wrong thing with the images of Mick with his collar up in the series, on the poster with it down.

Mick, a vampire who rejects his condition is a cliché trope, but we love it a lot, right? Beth, the young woman involved in a love triangle between her human boyfriend and her vampire protector. Cliché, we know, but we love it too. At the end of the 2000s, the clichés of love triangles between humans and dark creatures were beginning, let's take Twilight as an example, right.

We still have the ambiguous little guy, who is a bit gray and hypocritical, our dear Josef who hides a thousand secrets from Mick. But would it be to protect him or because she doesn't trust him that much? Josef is very critical of Mick's love for humans, but he himself has his share of interspecies involvement, see Sarah and Simone (this one likes girls starting in S). And his only involvement with vampires went very badly, as we see throughout the series.

There is also the issue of hackers (humans and vampires) that passed through the episodes, only Logan remained and how lucky we are for that. I liked the character, funny even though he was a recluse nerd.

And speaking of him, I noticed something, those vampires in Moonlight don't care about turning children and teenagers into vampires, a little group so full of laws letting something like that go unnoticed is a bit of a criminal. Another thing that I found a little strange is the issue of Coraline being French, part of Louis XVII's court, from a large vampire family and having been a courtesan. I wonder if this was part of the vampire hunting and punishment that they say was the real reason for the French Revolution. I found this part very interesting, as it opens up a range of the Moonlight universe that could have been expanded in other seasons if it hadn't been cancelled. It's Warner and CBS, you missed the vampire mine and the boom of the 2010s on this theme.

But going back to Moonlight, Mick is cool, his involvement with Beth is a strong plot point and their triangle with Josh could have been more developed. I wanted to see the guy alive even if it was like a vampire to compete for his blonde journalist with the almost centenarian private detective. It would have been cool. But no, right, those responsible had to kill the prosecutor's character with a hail of gunfire halfway through the season. A great evil by the way.

I could have made a post for each episode, but I thought it would be better to initially recommend it to anyone who wants to watch all the episodes in a relaxed manner and then tell me if there's a way not to fall in love. Moonlight is very charming, but it disappoints because it has nothing more than just 16 episodes. One season does not quench our thirst. The vampires are back and in full force.

The ending was ambiguous, both for closure and for a possible continuation. I liked that Talbot was perhaps the new enemy in the relationship between Mick and Beth, as well as a danger to the vampire community. I thought it was good that Beth and Mick understood each other, but their romance was very quick, especially with Josh's death and Coraline's return being recent events in the final episode. At least they canonized it and gave an endgame to the Beth/Mick couple with the right to a kiss and everything u.u

With that I end this poorly done rec and say, go see, at least it makes you want to watch other vampire series and opens the door for you to want more from Alex (Mick's actor), like in maybe Hawaii Five-0 which he did right after that (a bit of a flop series in the middle but ok).

Coraline: Do you want something, Mick?

Mick: Coraline! Coraline.

Coraline: Are you really surprised? Huh? How many clues did I have to give you? A Proust book. An old song. I even ordered my favourite glass of wine. You really thought you’d killed me, didn’t you?

Mick: How have you done this? Huh? How’ve you done it?

Coraline: Become human?

Mick: Yeah.

Coraline: I thought it would get your attention. You seem to like the human girls.

Mick: You’re telling me there’s a way back? You’re telling me there’s a cure? Is that what you’re telling me?

It's on Tubi now (for free) so you can finally watch it

I miss this short lived era of CBS

*yes GW was still on before ML Aired and after ML was cancelled but it was fun during that brief time where they would air back to back on Friday nights (September 2007-May 2008)