The last of the new Moonlight eps aired Friday on CBS. I was a little disappointed in how things were left, especially in light of the fact that we may not see new eps for a long time. Until the strike is over, if ever.
It’s not that I’m disappointed in the actual ep itself, it’s just that there are some things that I’m finding harder and harder to swallow. There are so many things we don’t know or that don’t seem to add up.
Take Coraline, for example. How long were they married that Mick never knew anything of her past? They must have been together for a while at least, because Mick said she took him under her wing when she turned him, when comparing it to that doctor who was turned in the ep, Dr. Feelgood, and who’s sire had abandoned him. And yet he didn’t know that she was part of a French aristocratic family that had been turned prior to the French Revolution.
Also, why, as a vampire, is he still so altruistic. Did Coraline teach him that? Was he a PI before he became a vamp? What makes him care about being human and helping others? The doctor didn’t even feel that way after he was turned, and he was a doctor, for goodness sake. It was his job to help people before he was turned, but he still somehow became a monster after he was turned and even killed his own wife. I know they tried to say it was because he hadn’t been taught by his sire, but Mick’s sire was Coraline, not necessarily someone who has a high regard for human life. She is the one, after all, who planned to kill Beth just so she and Mick could have a family. Something that must have occurred well after they were already separated. How does someone like that inspire a newly turned vampire to become Philanthropist of the Year?
What’s the timeline anyway? He’s been a vampire for 50 years, it was 30 years ago when he helped to put that serial killer away, and 25 years ago or so, when he saved Beth from Coraline. So was he a bad guy for a while, say 10 years or so? What then made him be a better person? He implied that his turning point was saving Beth from Coraline, but that was after he put the serial killer away, which means that he was already acting on the side of good.
And what’s with Coraline anyhow? She’s known for what, 200+ years, that her family had some special vampire antidote, she’s know for 50 years that Mick didn’t want to be a vampire, but she just decides to go steal it now?
And Josh, the last time we saw Beth and Josh together, they weren’t. Together that is, they were on the outs. Sure, Beth told Mick she couldn’t stay with him in New York because she had to go back and make things up to Josh, but we never saw anything like that happen. We just see them finally make up right before he gets killed. But, somehow, he was having a stone set for an engagement ring, which he had planned to go pick up that very night. And why meet the person setting the stone for dinner at a fancy restaurant? Doesn’t she have an office or a store?
Maybe I’m being too nit-picky here, but I like things to add up. Part of why Lost makes me so crazy, actually, but that’s another story. Don’t get me wrong, I’m still watching this show when it comes back, but when that happens, I’m gonna want some answers.
Moonlight, Alex O’Loughlin, Lost
Lots of shows that I’ve been waiting for start up again this week. Well, to be honest, a couple started last week, like Bones, which is airing on Mondays at 8 pm ET on Fox, and Law & Order: SVU on NBC at 10 pm ET. There were 6 new eps of Bones and 5 of SVU. Actually, last week’s ep of SVU was one of the most disturbing I’ve seen in a long time.
