TV Roundup: the Sequel
Sep. 28th, 2007 09:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
joiedecombatCaught the premiere of Moonlight just on the off chance it might be decent and because Alex O'Loughlin is not bad-looking.
Verdict: unintentionally hilarious.
Okay, it wasn't all bad. O'Loughlin is easy on the eyes, and I was amused by the fact that his Vampire Buddy is an uptight, suit-wearing businessman, which is a version I don't think I've seen before.
But the mystery-of-the-week was laaaaaaame, and the two leads sort of went through half a season's worth of relationship development in fast-forward, jumping from 'this guy I've run into a couple times who looks kind of familiar but acts kind of suspicious' to 'partners!' to emotional hugging at the end of the episode.
The backstory: similarly lame! Mick (because his name is Mick St. John, wtf) saved Intrepid Human Female Lead Whose Name I Already Do Not Remember from his Vampire Femme Fatale Ex-Girlfriend (played by Shannyn Sossamon, last seen as Jocelyn in A Knight's Tale and lacking any appreciable improvement in wardrobe - she had kind of a Bride of Manos thing going on with her diaphanous white gown over considerably more opaque white underwear) when she was a little kid and for some reason this changed his unlife and ever since he's been stalking her "in case she needed me." I'm an admitted sucker for unhealthy obsessive devotion, but it doesn't work here, sorry to say... probably because the episode gives absolutely nothing to indicate why exactly the little tow-headed moppet had such an effect on Mick as to engender said obsessive devotion.
Did Mick really claim to be able to smell the past? I really think he did. Bwah.
Also, I'm pretty sure you can't actually use Evanescence in an unironic dramatic context any more. Even in a Vampire Detective Show. Possibly especially in a Vampire Detective Show. So when "My Immortal" started playing over the Dramatic Rescue Of The Little Girl (plus a look back at the Femme Fatale Undead Ex-Girlfriend in the flames as though she's totally not going to show up later and make trouble), my reaction was to crack up laughing, which is, I can only suppose, probably not the effect they were going for.
The 'stay tuned' montage afterwards looked more interesting than the episode itself, although I fear it's the result of all the good material being compressed into a single music montage.
Verdict: unintentionally hilarious.
Okay, it wasn't all bad. O'Loughlin is easy on the eyes, and I was amused by the fact that his Vampire Buddy is an uptight, suit-wearing businessman, which is a version I don't think I've seen before.
But the mystery-of-the-week was laaaaaaame, and the two leads sort of went through half a season's worth of relationship development in fast-forward, jumping from 'this guy I've run into a couple times who looks kind of familiar but acts kind of suspicious' to 'partners!' to emotional hugging at the end of the episode.
The backstory: similarly lame! Mick (because his name is Mick St. John, wtf) saved Intrepid Human Female Lead Whose Name I Already Do Not Remember from his Vampire Femme Fatale Ex-Girlfriend (played by Shannyn Sossamon, last seen as Jocelyn in A Knight's Tale and lacking any appreciable improvement in wardrobe - she had kind of a Bride of Manos thing going on with her diaphanous white gown over considerably more opaque white underwear) when she was a little kid and for some reason this changed his unlife and ever since he's been stalking her "in case she needed me." I'm an admitted sucker for unhealthy obsessive devotion, but it doesn't work here, sorry to say... probably because the episode gives absolutely nothing to indicate why exactly the little tow-headed moppet had such an effect on Mick as to engender said obsessive devotion.
Did Mick really claim to be able to smell the past? I really think he did. Bwah.
Also, I'm pretty sure you can't actually use Evanescence in an unironic dramatic context any more. Even in a Vampire Detective Show. Possibly especially in a Vampire Detective Show. So when "My Immortal" started playing over the Dramatic Rescue Of The Little Girl (plus a look back at the Femme Fatale Undead Ex-Girlfriend in the flames as though she's totally not going to show up later and make trouble), my reaction was to crack up laughing, which is, I can only suppose, probably not the effect they were going for.
The 'stay tuned' montage afterwards looked more interesting than the episode itself, although I fear it's the result of all the good material being compressed into a single music montage.
