Did You Think No One Would Notice?

Phallic has already provided a review of the first episode of Moonlight for you, and he hit the nail pretty much on the head. Over the summer I read about this show and, having a vampire pop culture fetish, I was looking forward to it as an idea. As soon as they announced this, I immediately started reading comments about how this was exactly like Angel. My first thought was that sure they're both vampire detectives, but they wouldn't put something on the air that was a duplicate of a show that only stopped airing a couple of years ago. I was horrifically surprised to discover that I was so very wrong. Phallic has already mentioned some of the other, more obscure, material that Moonlight rips off and this can be added to the long list. This isn't just similar to Angel because they're good vampires who work as detectives. This show actually steals almost all its details and subplots from that show. The most ridiculous part: they wrote a love interest for Mick St. John that's exactly the same as the love interest Angel had on season 1 of that show (I'm sorry, one is a reporter and the other is an LAPD detective, big difference) and they cast a woman who looks just like the girl from Angel to play her! Take a look for yourself:


That is the always delicious (pre-Law & Order) Elisabeth Röhm steaming up your screen on the right.

Supporting cast observations:
-I love Jason Dohring. I'm a big Veronica Mars fan. I just wish he were more Logan-y on this show. His character could be great if he just loosened up a little and added some serious camp action to the role.
-Shannyn Sassoman is HOT. She's an 11; but bitch either needs some acting lessons or a transition into porn because she is awful in everything she does (I vote for the latter)
-Sophia Myles is an even worse actress. The difference is that she's not nearly as hot and her bad acting is so much more boring than Shannyn's. But, hey, if she stays on this show for a while The Doctor will probably dump her ass and be available again. There's one reason to keep this around for a couple of years.