Vampire Detective...hmm, sounds familiar

[mysid]

Does anyone else think the new tv series Moonlight seems a bit too much like the old tv series Forever Knight? One is about a vampire named Nick who works as a homocide detective to attone for his past sins and falls for a mortal woman. The other is about a vampire named Mick who works as a private detective to attone for his past sins and falls for a mortal woman. Can you even tell which sentence applies to which show?

(Or have I just dated myself horribly by admitting that I remember the earlier of these two shows?)

I've got to say that I loved the character of Lacroix on Forever Knight. He was the kind of character you love to hate--and then he'd turn around and do something halfway decent and confuse the hell out of you.

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[greenwitch.livejournal.com]

I've never even seen Forever Knight and I know Moonlight is a ripoff ;DDD

I still watch it though, despite the horrible awful cheesiness... (and Forever Knight is in my Netflix queue for when the WGA strike kicks in on primetime programming...)

[mysid.livejournal.com]

Can you believe that I haven't tried watching Moonlight yet? I think the fact that it was such an obvious copy turned me off. But I did like the original, so I'd probably like the copy. And I've had a thing about vampires since I can't remember when, so...

...despite the horrible awful cheesiness...
Just so you know, Forever Knight was cheesy too. I liked the late seasons best; they added some cool characters then.

[greenwitch.livejournal.com]

See? That's the thing. There's no way that any vampire show isn't going to be cheesy simply because vampires are so overdone, everything is going to be cliche no matter what :) Hell, Moonlight is so cheesy they used a freakin' Evanesence song in the pilot. I nearly died laughing.

Unfortunately I have a feeling Moonlight won't be long for this world... a full season still wasn't ordered, and from what I know they only finished filming 11 of the 12 episodes before the strike shut things down (or maybe they're still filming, but from what I understand only l1 eps were finished). Even though the ratings were pretty decent, I don't think it'll survive. That said, moonlight_tv is a very well run community if you're interested in checking it out.

I'm not sure that anything could possibly beat first season Highlander on cheesiness, which is the last thing I got from Netflix :D

[gehayi.livejournal.com]

I can tell, but only because I'm an old Forever Knight fan.** Except for, y'know, the Unspeakable Ending.**

I don't know what the hell is going on lately, but I see more and more things in books and TV shows that are virtual copies of things that already exist in other canons. When did plagiarism become so fucking acceptable?


**The sentence about Homicide Detective Nick refers to Forever Knight.

[mysid.livejournal.com]

...the Unspeakable Ending.

Oh God, wasn't it? I think my chin hit the floor. (But at least the "Unspeakable Ending" included Lacroix!)

When did plagiarism become so fucking acceptable?

I think it always has been on tv. Remember Bewitched and it's--ahem--"homage", I Dream of Jeannie? They even copied the "identical except for a black wig evil twin/sister" idea.

[greenwitch.livejournal.com]

There's just no original plots left anymore...

[ceria-taliesin.livejournal.com]

I wondered about Moonlight because of that. I saw some of the Forever Knight episodes, but didn't follow all of them.

[mysid.livejournal.com]

Now that I've read the entry on IMDB on Forever Knight, I realize that all the episodes I watched were Season 3, the last season.

[pforte.livejournal.com]

I never managed to sit through the first episode of Moonlight. It's not only unoriginal, it is also really bad. *lol*