Moonlight Episode One – No Such Thing as Vampires
June 3, 2010 by admin
Filed under Featured, Miscellaneous Vamps, Moonlight
No Such Thing As Vampires is the pilot episode for Moonlight. In this episode we get the set up for the series and an intro to the characters that will run with this vampire drama. The pilot episode was frankly not anything that would wow an audience. The dialog was rushed and felt awkward at times. The background details felt like they were being piled on faster than we could handle them and the special effects were downright awful. The car scenes in particular looked like they were born of 1950s technology. The plot had been done before too. Moonlight is essentially the story of a vampire private investigator named Mick St. John who uses his supernatural gifts to atone for what he is and help humanity. He is romantically drawn to a lovely and very human blond reporter. This sounds just like Angel right?
Well, despite all of these things the pilot does what it meant to do… it hooks us. We become entranced by this soulful vampire Mick St. John and we want to delve into his past and give him a big teddy bear hug while he relates it to us. Within one hour we start to really care about this man.. or vampire rather. Even if the effects are bad and the story has been recycled we cannot help but be captivated by the character and the actor that plays him… Alex O’Loughlin.
We also pick up on the amazing chemistry between Mick and his love interest, Beth Turner and we can’t help but be taken by her smile and her enthusiasm for uncovering a good story. The audience is privy to the fact that she and Mick have a history that she is unaware of and we become anxious to know how that will turn out. More amazing chemistry is created between Mick and his best friend Joseph… automatically we see a great bromance brewing.
In this episode Mick and Beth are investigating the death of a college co-ed who appears to have been savaged by a vampire wannabe. The deceased was involved in a blood cult run by a college professor who either really thinks he is some form of vampire or just uses the concept to bed his students. Did he take the vampire concept too far or are his female minions turning on each other in a jealous rage? We get answers to these questions and we find out that Mick’s path to redemption actually began with Beth, 22 years previous, when she was a kidnapped child he was hired to find.
In the final scene, when Beth hugs Mick in appreciation for his heroic rescue, we see the a vampire who craves human touch but is afraid to seek it and be rebuffed. We see the makings of a truly fascinating couple and a great story. It becomes easy to forget the flaws and look beyond them to the magic that is Moonlight.
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“The magic that is Moonlight” is my personal take on the entire series as well. Each episode built on the one before, and although the pace was interrupted by the writers’ strike and showrunner changes, Moonlight came full circle at episode 16 (the final one). If anyone with an interest in either vampires and/or romance hasn’t seen the series in its entirety, you are in for a magical treat!
There is no other over Moonlight !! I am so proud that Dawn saw what millions of us have seen over the past three years and brought Moonlight back to television no matter if it is reruns or not. You can not imagine how happy it has made so many people and I have seen on several cites that people that have never seen or heard of Moonlight are following all over themselves with praises over our show. This is wonderful. We all can hope that with the ratings and the love for Moonlight Warner Bros. will give us a movie and who knows from there. MICK/BETH FOREVER !!