No Accounting for Taste

^/^ It seems that one of the authors I link to absolutely hated Moonlight. You can find out complete details here. Strangely, she liked Bionic Woman, and complained that Moonlight had bad acting and no sense of humor, which is how I felt about Bionic Woman. Ah well.

Is Moonlight derivative? As much as any vampire story will be. There are certain story lines that are guaranteed to come up in a serial vampire tale. And since there are only so many variations on their weaknesses or strengths, no matter what you pick, someone's going to think it's a copy. I still don't see it as a Forever Knight rip-off. I really don't. Mick is not trying to become human again. He is not a cop. At the beginning of the series, there were no regular, human cast-members who knew what he was. So... whatever. I like it and hope it lasts.

Then there's the complaint that it's too angsty. Uh, no... that was Angel, aka he-who-broods. FK was a bit angsty, depending on the plotline If anything, this one has less angst in it. Admittedly, we don't know why he's drinking bottled blood instead of feeding on humans, but, hey, we're only two eps in. And, incidentally, I like musical montages in shows when they're done well (and I like the song).

But P.N. Elrod did remind me of the two vampire detective sagas that I'd forgotten. Lee Killough had two books about a vampire cop. Decently written. A bit...I don't know...overly pretentious somehow. I enjoyed them, but there was an air about them that bugged me. Tanya Huff also has a series featuring, first, a vampire and a detective working together. It's evolved a bit since then. Also enjoyable, but a bit too... oogy boogy for my tastes. If you've watched Mythbuster's, oogy boogy is their technical term for really "out-there" myths, like pyramid power and telepathic bike helmets. Tanya Huff has had a demon, a mummy, zombies, and ghosts feature as villains in various books. I tend to prefer my vampire fiction straight up. Like P.N. Elrod writes. ^/^