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I seem to have been one of the few who really enjoyed the vampire TV series Moonlight from 2007-08. People then said it was a rehash of the Canadian series Forever Knight. I only saw the first season of Forever Knight. I thought that was interesting, but really lacked maturity having come before Buffy instead of after it. It was done well considering it seemingly had next to nothing as a budget.
Compared to Forever Knight, Moonlight had better actors, better sets, better costumes, better special effects, better dialogue, better background music, all of which were a matter of money. But it only lasted 16 episodes. It's certainly true that Moonlight borrowed heavily from both Forever Knight and Buffy. Heck one of the most romantic scenes in Moonlight used the same music as Buffy did for a memorable hot and heavy scene. But focus of each show was different.
Forever Knight was about trying to make amends (but not in a league with Angel. Being post-Buffy mattered). Buffy was as much about a young woman and her friends maturing as it was about killing vampires. Moonlight was essentially a love story.
At any rate I'm off the thing I wanted to mention. I watched the whole Moonlight series again this weekend and realized a very odd coincidence. The last episode of Moonlight had as a vampire, guest star Jonathan LaPaglia who 9 years before had his own show Seven Days about going back in time to deal with problems. Also in the same episode was Abigail Spencer, playing a human 'friend' of another one of the vampires. Ms Spencer 9 years later is in her own series, Timeless, about going back in time to deal with problems. It isn't just vampire shows that keep coming back from the dead.
Compared to Forever Knight, Moonlight had better actors, better sets, better costumes, better special effects, better dialogue, better background music, all of which were a matter of money. But it only lasted 16 episodes. It's certainly true that Moonlight borrowed heavily from both Forever Knight and Buffy. Heck one of the most romantic scenes in Moonlight used the same music as Buffy did for a memorable hot and heavy scene. But focus of each show was different.
Forever Knight was about trying to make amends (but not in a league with Angel. Being post-Buffy mattered). Buffy was as much about a young woman and her friends maturing as it was about killing vampires. Moonlight was essentially a love story.
At any rate I'm off the thing I wanted to mention. I watched the whole Moonlight series again this weekend and realized a very odd coincidence. The last episode of Moonlight had as a vampire, guest star Jonathan LaPaglia who 9 years before had his own show Seven Days about going back in time to deal with problems. Also in the same episode was Abigail Spencer, playing a human 'friend' of another one of the vampires. Ms Spencer 9 years later is in her own series, Timeless, about going back in time to deal with problems. It isn't just vampire shows that keep coming back from the dead.
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My favorite character in Moonlight, was the guy who previously played Logan on Veronica Mars. The problem Moonlight had was at the same time it was on another, no two shows with similar concepts popped up. So a bit of market saturation going on there. Also Angel had just ended, and it was a wee bit too similar. (Although to be fair, Angel was in turn similar to other shows, Koljack the Night Stalker, which they tried to reboot, Brimstone (which was an early of Lucifier and Constantine but far darker, and grittier), and Forever Knight.)
I'd have to agree, Moonlight was better than Forever Knight -- which I was addicted to in law school - Forever Knight not Moonlight. Watched the entire thing, wickedly hard to find, because it was a cult television serial. Moonlight was a tad more mainstream and less cult, hence the reason it didn't last as long. If it had been lower budget and on CW, it would have made it five seasons.
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According to Wikipedia, Abigail Spencer was on All My Children for several years when she was a teenager. Maybe you know her from that?
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After the recent election, I've given up trying to understand why people like or dislike things. We bring our baggage to everything apparently.