marguerite_krux | Disappointment by Moonlight (Reply)

Moonlight pisses me off.

What with the mess that SGA is at the moment, I desperately need all the comfort-viewing I can get, and this show? Provides just enough tantalizing scenes to get me into it, then ends up leaving me unfulfilled. Kinda like when Mick saw the tomato juice and, deluded as he is, thought they’d made a vending machine for vamps.

I wanted so much from it and Moonlight just isn’t doing enough to satisfy my needs.

I watch a show for a ship. Call me a hopeless romantic, or a sap, or destined to be an old maid with a million cats, I don’t care. I just find it hard to get into a show without a couple I am invested in. Based on the first ep, I thought I’d found one that satisfied my criteria.

-Never been involved before.

-Both morally upright, intelligent, dedicated professionals. [Bums, hookers and druggies need not apply]

-Constantly face danger and life-threatening situations, leaving the other in emotional turmoil on a regular basis

-Huge emotional investment in each other, *without* a sexual relationship from the very first ep [Grey’s Anatomy was automatically disqualified]

And then what does it do to me? GUESS WHAT IT DOES.

We find out she has a boyfriend in the second episode. A bloody third party.

I know a lot of people enjoy complicated relationships, ones that emulate real life in all its messy gory grittiness and pain, but me? Not so much. I don’t want them to hook up straight off, but I certainly don’t want a boyfriend in the wings. And unlike Simon and Mark, this dude cannot be ignored [Simon was all of one scene in Rising, a few in Home, thankfully last and never again seen after Intruder- and I never took him seriously, not after seeing him as Carter’s boyfriend, Narim, a Tollan tragedy in SG-1]. He’s been in every episode after the pilot, FCOL! And every time he kisses her or suspiciously eyes Mick or even chummily interacts with Mick, I want to bash the writer’s head against a wall for screwing up my ship so thoroughly.

This guy [whose name I cannot recall because he is that insignificant] is actually quite nice and caring and it makes me feel like a home-wrecker for wanting him out of the picture. God, by the time I’ve finished an ep, my stomach is all tied up in knots and I just feel so conflicted. Awful, awful writers. Why do you torment me so?

The funny thing is that this show emulates Threshold [a wonderful, underrated sci-fi show that was cancelled after one season] in that the chick, more often than not, saves the guy. Mick’s a vampire, and yet he’s always hovering near death and requiring Beth to come along and resurrect him. I mean, a newly created vampire beats the crap out of him- how lame is that?

Another thing the writers did severely messed up the show for me. I was really into the Superman vibes- man keeps secret identity SECRET from love interest, tries to hide super powers, that sort of thing. I thought it added a whole other dimension to their relationship and that after a season, when she found out, it would be way more interesting because they’ll be closer and she’ll have trusted him with no idea of his true nature and when she saw him revert to vamp mode, she’d be way more freaked out and aghast and there’d be more delicious tension between them, you know? Except the writers had other ideas- she finds out in the second ep. *clutches head*

I blame the current tv economy. Out of the thousands of pitches, a few hundred are developed into scripts, about a hundred get made into pilots, under twenty get picked up and less than a dozen are renewed. So now it’s like the writers are so under pressure to get all their cool ideas out that they spend no time at all planning a proper arc, it’s all about what will get the most audience reaction right here and now, never mind leaving a few eggs in the basket to hatch over a season or- god forbid- two or more. They’re constantly anticipating cancellation and they just have to throw everything at the wall and hope something sticks and never mind character growth and organic relationship development.

What an unbearably tragic situation. Everyone suffers. Except the fat cat studio people. *grumbles about TPTB*