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Day #1 of the 30 Day Television Challenge
Day #1 of the 30 Day Television Challenge
The prompt is A Television Series that should never have been cancelled
Note, there are ones that have been resurrected and they don't count. If it got saved, you can't pick it. Only those television series that got cancelled and weren't saved.
Also, you can't pick the same one that someone else picked. What would be the fun in that? This is a challenge after all. Try not to pick two - since it makes it harder for someone else. (Although there's A LOT of cancelled television shows out there...that should have been rescued.)
The prompt is A Television Series that should never have been cancelled
Note, there are ones that have been resurrected and they don't count. If it got saved, you can't pick it. Only those television series that got cancelled and weren't saved.
Also, you can't pick the same one that someone else picked. What would be the fun in that? This is a challenge after all. Try not to pick two - since it makes it harder for someone else. (Although there's A LOT of cancelled television shows out there...that should have been rescued.)
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The first episode aired on CBS in 2007. A lot of people watched that and didn't go on watching it. It was vampire series for adults, and for whatever reason folks didn't buy into it. A nice big budget wasted.
I thought O'Loughlin and Sophia Miles were very good. Some people thought Joseph Dohring as Joseph was great. I think they were just hoping for a younger Spike. I thought he was a) too immature, if not just plain too young and b) not a good enough actor for the part.
Some people thought it was a rehash of Forever Knight. I've seen Forever Knight. It wasn't even close. In fact when it was stealing, it stole more liberally from Buffy, which probably hurt more than it helped.
Anyway it's on my shelf with Firefly and I rewatch Moonlight much more often.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZXl6A_Mkuk
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I watched it and actually enjoyed it.
It reminded me a lot of a lot television shows I'd seen - so I found it to be predictable plot-wise because of that. (Brimstone, Angel, Kojack the Night Stalker, Forever Knight (which was originally Rick Springfield and shifted to a Canadian show), oh and a few other shows that popped up at the same time - there was one with the guy who later played Jamie Lannister in Game of Thrones, and another one I can't remember the name of, not to mention Highlander and another failed Greenwalt series starring Billy Crudup. At that time - it was a popular television trope to do a supernatural detective series with a mysterious immortal in the lead. Add to that Supernatural - which was different and pulled in the audience that Moonlight was aiming for.
Lucifer is another take on the trope and it got cancelled by Fox and resurrected by Netflix, which did not exist at the time Moonlight aired). I liked Moonlight better than Lucifer.
Dohring was a good draw for Veronica Mars fans - who loved him as Logan. He really wan't drawing the Spike fans, just the Veronica Mars Logan fans. I know I liked him as Logan, but the actor wasn't Spike. And I agree - he didn't quite work here. Nor did he draw the VM fans. He was interesting, but I felt a bit off. What they were going for was a Lestate/Louis dynamic from Anne Rice, but it didn't quite play.
I think it would have done better if it had aired at a different time. And not around the same time as a lot of other shows similar to it...
That happens a lot with television shows - they get lost because of too many similar shows on the air.